Some of you might have read of an unfortunate event that transpired in Thailand that resulted in the government banning GTA from sale in the country. I found a post on GamePolitics very interesting, it regards the frequency of killings of Taxi drivers in the US and its correspondence to the existence of GTA. 
Absent speculation that Grand Theft Auto somehow played a role, the murder of a Bangkok cab driver by a 19-year-old-man in some ways appears similar to the typical murder of a cab driver in the United States.
In the U.S., cabbie killings appear to have very little to do with violent video games, given that they peaked in 1990-1993, when crude first-person shooters like Doom were the bloodiest games available and the first Grand Theft Auto was years away.
