The Canis/Bully legal debacle continues today with 'campaigning', US attorney, Jack Thompson, kindly taking more time out of his busy schedule to email SPOnG. Here, in his own inimitable style, is what Jack let us know:



Thompson goes on to claim that, “The court ordered production of the game by tomorrow at 3PM, for his full review of the game while it is being played, up to or more than 100 hours…This is unprecedented and reasonable as well. This is a huge victory against the violent video game industry, regardless of the ultimate ruling on the injunction. I anticipate an immediate appeal to the Third DCA by Take-Two.”

Now, aside from the many free speech implications and the waste of US taxpayer’s money involved in this (a Florida Judge can be paid upto $146,874 per annum, which means 100 hours of playing Bully costs the state approximately $8345.11 if we allow him a five-day working week and eight weeks of holidays...) there are some seriously bizarre things going down in the Miami-Dade Court today.

It also seems, according to Kotaku’s Brian Crecente, that Jack maybe slightly disingenuous about what went down in the courtroom yesterday, with one of the court’s clerks telling them: “The judge did not order the review of the game, but Take-Two offered to bring the game in on Thursday at 3PM so he could see for himself what all of the noise is about.”

So it seems that a Rockstar employee is heading over to Miami-Dade later today to hang out and play Bully, potentially all the way through, which may well take a good couple of weeks of his and the (lucky) Circuit Court Judge Ronald Friedman's time.

Game Politics confirmed that, “...the ruling is unprecedented, although in the long run it’s really not a win if it gets overturned on appeal…the judge will view the game in chambers… and is prepared to spend several days watching its content”.

Perhaps the funniest story to come out of this whole sad waste of time and money has been reported over on Destructoid, which tells us that, “The other notable highlight of the session did come from Mr. Thompson, who produced a gigantic home made industrial strength wooden slingshot that looked capable of exploding somebody’s head in half with the right projectile. It was made of wood and rubber, so he was able to sneak it past metal detectors unnoticed which even took the judge by surprise. It was a moment right out of Court TV, but an effective one. If there was (sic) any chuckles that a slingshot could be a lethal weapon, they were silenced.”