Murder of Khuan Phokaeng

Date: August 2, 2008 • Location: Phra Nakhon, Thailand

A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the sale of Grand Theft Auto.

On 2 August 2008, 50-year-old taxi driver Khuan Phokaeng, was murdered in Bangkok, Thailand, by 18-year-old Polwat Chinno, a secondary school student who was addicted to playing the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, claiming during interrogation that he wanted to know if "pulling off a carjacking was as easy in real life as it was in the video game." The case prompted a nationwide ban on the sale of Grand Theft Auto games in Thailand.