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The Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force Thinks We're Perverts

If you play Animal Crossing and you're an adult, you're probably using it to commit crimes.

Is this Tom Nook's shadowy new comrade?
Is this Tom Nook's shadowy new comrade?
OK, I'll be quick, because you already know what this is. This is the same old story of "local network affiliate talks to cops about video games, something stupid comes out."

KMIZ-TV out of Missouri ran "Wii Gamers Vulnerable To Crime" last week. It's the standard story of bad people wanting to do bad things to kids and how they're supposedly using video game hardware to make it happen.

The comedy comes in when Andy Anderson of the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force pipes up with his views on Animal Crossing: City Folk, which is obviously, a pedophile's fantasy.

"There is no reason an adult should have this game," says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.

Anderson says adults playing "animal crossing" and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons.


There you have it. Kotaku's Mike Fahey has more to say about this kind of sensationalistic junk, if you're interested. But one thing is crystal clear. If you're playing Animal Crossing and you're not a kid, then Mid-Missouri thinks you're one sick bastard. That said, I'm left with one question... what do Upper- and Lower-Missouri have to say on this hot-button issue?

Also, anyone out there want any "peaches?"
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Whatever

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I'm ALWAYS offering kids my 'seed' in Animal Crossing

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So, when I heard the news that every adult who plays AnimalCrossing is a pedophile, well, I figured AnimalCrossing needed a hero, someone who could be tough on these criminals like they deserve. I made a video of it, of course. AnimalCrossing with Rorschach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJKGdpBGoV8

But who watches Tom Nook?

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It'd be nice if Nintendo were to sue them for slander.

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Animal Crossing: Pedobear-approved.

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Animal Crossing: Let's Go To 4Chan edition.

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Right now all I've got in my head is a lot of weird, shifty looking people into overcoats going into a seedy looking store with low lighting and very discretely asking the filthy shopkeeper whether he has the latest Animal Crossing in. But seriously, this whole thing about child predators operating across Animal Crossing: City Folk is ridiculous, everyone knows the real pedophiles are on Wild World.

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Edited By OwnlyUzinWonHan

Other than the misinformed information, they also called it "animal crossing".
Someone didn't learn about proper nouns in second grade...

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Yeah i had the same problem with the chocolate milk aisle.

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Pazy said:
"Tbh Ive stopped reading "The News", they provide such a biased and wrong view on games most of the time (though I have read/heard/seen some great examples where they actually are fair but its few and far between) that I cannot beleive they arent wrong and biased when they discuss anything else."
Exactly.  I've stated the same thing before.
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You can probably buy Animal Crossing cheap now! Only problem is if others see you buy it.....
There are gonna be some funny vids and photoshop pics with animal crossing in it now, lol.

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Goddammit! I'm a pedophile I guess! Hey GB_crew, hit me up and we can go find ourselves some kids together!

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Yeah, i'd like some peaches.


I'd like 'em REAL good.
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Dude what...?

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Tom Nook is a capitalist bastard. He's everything that's wrong with decadent, modern society. Tom Nook is the Bernard Madoff of the Animal Crossing world. He runs the greatest ponzi scheme ever to be concocted in a videogame.

The citizens of Animal Crossing must rise and overthrow the bourgeois tool of oppression.

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Andy Anderson of the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force secretly thinks to himself:  "Ok this is a sweet gig.  I really need to make it look like I do something other than surf 'Craigslist' for hookers and download porn looking for underaged girls.  If I play my cards right I can get  a couple video game systems up in here."

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lol missouri.

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I can see where Animal Crossing can be used as a device for pedos but, the guy sure went too far.

I mean hell, anything that connects anonymous people together can be used for pedo criminal activity.

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Pedobear is a pioneer in nonlinear usage of Animal Crossing!

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Kids don't really have to worry. With all the killing skills they learn from GTA, they can just beat the pedo Animal Crossing playing adults to death with their wii-motes.

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Just because I'm an adult and play Animal Crossing doesn't mean I go around offering bells for pics of little kids' private parts. Ignorant people are ignorant.

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'Hey you there whats that in your hands?'
'Uh a ds'
'What ya playing on it?'
'... animal crossing'
*cop starts beating man with baton*

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I wont get into it but this really really frustrates me and annoys me.  I'm shooting the Mid Misosuri Internet Crimes Task Force a message.  It won't do any good but this crap they spout makes everyone involved (including themselves) look bad.

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Whats there to do in Missouri anyway?

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Alright guys, what do you think next weeks "hot button issue for the totally uninformed" is going to be?

I'm gonna say Need for Speed encourages beastiality.
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Nah, Need for Speed obviously is encouraging drug use. It's in the title! Damn you EA!

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Haha strictly speaking though, there really is no good reason for an adult to be playing Animal Crossing. I love it! But i'm not gonna stand up and say i feel particularly mature in my OCD urge to stay at home on new years eve to watch some virtual fireworks when i can just mess with the system clock at any time to do the same at my leisure.

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Man i was just reading this already and telling some friends... it will never end.

Although they're getting closer this time, Tom Nook is a slave driving bastard.

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Hamz said:
"Nice, so video games breed violence? anti social behaviour and now pedophiles? is there anything that can't be blamed on video games?"
Lazine....wait, nope...ummm...

Obesi.....wait, no, that one is covered too...

Weapons traini.....damn, that one is a good argument also...

Rape?  Wait, nope, we're fucked on that one too...

Ummm....I'll get back to you on that one, Hamz...
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Everyone's blaming the media for covering the story, the bigger concern to me is how out of touch law enforcement is.

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Why would you play Animal Crossing anyway?

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Jeff, don't let me catch you wandering around any preschools! 

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Definately.  I for one am a pedophile.

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As annoyed as I get at these news people using dumb stories to fill airtime, just seeing that wonderfully horrible bear is enough to lift my spirits.

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Didn't the commercial for Animal Crossing City Folk feature two grown adult women playing the game and talking about shopping? Wow...what dirty dirty whores they were. All this time, who knew?

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ok so now violent AND non violent video games are bad?

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I do find myself having this strange attraction to mustachioed men in overalls after playing some interactive video games.

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I live in Springfield (southern Missouri)... And I HAVE.... absolutely nothing to say.

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Tom Nook is so  hawt...

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Considering how much I've played, I'm serving forever

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lol

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I wonder what they would say about the, Don't Shit Your Pants Game?

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Rofl, and I suppose there's no good reason for adults to like Pixar movies either.

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John1912 said:
"Doesnt it have some online co op play or something.  It would be a little wierd for someone in their late 20s and up playing with kids.  Christ its annoying enough to deal with kids in any online game, just hearing them speak is like that screeching noise when you rub plastic.  So i could see the leap in logic there I guess.  Its a leap, but a bit valid.  "
Except the fact that Animal Crossing is one o the most child safe online games there is, you have to give someone your code and enter theirs. If a kid is playing the game with someone older it can only be because the kid knows that person.
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Oh Pedobear. You and your crazy antics!

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Fagballs said:
"MMMM YOUNG CHILDREN"
lets just hope we can find some black ones MMMMMM DARK MEAT! (not in any way racist)
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To be fair, the comedy came when Mr and Mrs Anderson called their son Andy.

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Wouldn't it be awesome if pedobear would be one of the inhabitants of your city?

not really...

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These CRIME REPORTS hurt my brain.