Bootwhistle
Life is stranger than fiction, in most cases anyway - haven't seen any penguins riding unicorns lately (must be the wrong season). Anyway a while back a very loud and... well loud lawyer by the name of Jack Thompson started a crusade against violent and obscene video games/media. He got especially upset with the GTA series of games lambasting (hehe lambasting) the creator Rockstar games for making a 'cop killing simulator' and was representing the families of cops shot in the line of duty. Well for the most part Jack seemed like the good ol'crusader of decency/medical malpractice lawyer however the more he opens his mouth one realizes that he is about six different kinds of crazy. If what I've read can be believed (its like a 50/50 chance anyway) Thompson has a bit of a persecution complex... to put it mildly. The deal closer is an interesting tale, at some press conference Jack challenged developers to make a game where:
[t]he CEO of fictional company Take This, Paula Eibel, is murdered along with her husband and children. Should any developer agree to make the game, Thompson will donate $10,000 to the charity of choice of Paul Eibeler, the CEO of Take Two.
(http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12259)

Now challenging computer geeks isn't really a good idea, unless it involves some form of physical activity. Of course his challenge resulted in a slew of games ranging from text based adventures to a mod of GTA: San Andreas. Jack declared that his statements were meant as satire, and not to be taken literally... I can understand the part of the CEO killing game being satire but donating to charity doesn't seem like 'satire', then again I'm not a lawyer.
Here is where it gets really interesting, a couple of guys from the online comic/store Penny Arcade decided to donate the $10 000 to charity and even put the donation in Jack Thompson's name! Surprisingly Jack didn't take this too well and wrote a letter to the police demanding the guys from Penny Arcade be arrested for defamation and threatening him!? Clearly any credibility this guy had is slowly (make that super turbo nitro speed) circling the drain, even the National Institute on Media and the Family of whom Jack claimed support decided they really wanted nothing to do with this raving madman, even demanding he take links to their site from his webpage.
Looking at all of this the real question I have to ask is - why on earth did anyone pay attention to this weirdo in the first place?