It could happen if you are a retailer in New York.

Making game sales a felony is the latest idea out of a New York legislature so bent on wasting time that they've authored dozens of anti-video game bills in the last month. The Constitutional issues have been brought up in other reports, but New York GameStop employees (among others) should really be paying attention. Why?

New York has a "3 Strikes" rule, which was upheld in 2005.

While the law does give some leeway for the sentencing court, it theoretically allows a judge to put someone away for life for selling a copy of, say, Gears of War to a 16 year old who looks 18. Yes, selling a game could come with a life sentence under the new law.

This is just poor governance. However, to go as far as to make it a felony borders on lunacy. It would only further contribute to prison overcrowding, among other things. Moreover, providing alcohol or tobacco to a minor is generally a misdemeanor and a fine in most states, and there is no penalty for selling a copy of Saw or Hostel to a minor. In any event, the game developer and game retailer attorneys will likely be busy in New York in the coming months considering the determination the New York legislature is showing on this non-issue.

Selling a M rated game to a minor, a felony??? Not a misdemnor, that usually carries a fine and little to no jail time, but a full fledged, off ya go and don't drop the soap felony.

Yeah, I can see that earn you props in the pen.

Inmate A : "What are you here for?"
Inmate B: "I killed three people with a chainsaw. What about you?"
Inmate A: "I raped six nuns with their own crusifixes."
Inmate B: "What about that skinning guy over there?"
Inmate A: "Oh him? He sold a copy of Resident Evil to a 13 year old kid."
Inmate B: "What a sick bastard."

Sock wrote:

Whoever wrote that did a great job of making it sound like the law was already set in stone. It'll never happen, don't worry about it, kids.

Hey, the 2nd half, including the coverstaion, was mine!

The first half is from Law of the Game, which I found through an article HERE.

I would have used the Inquirer's article, but then I have to translate out all of the English slang, that average Sydlexians wouldn't understand. (No offense to those that do.)

That's why I'm staying in good old Oregon. All the cool stuff our courts come up with get shot down by the federal courts. (Doctor Asisted Suicide, Lax Medical Marajuana Laws, Same Sex Marriages, etc.)

Chwoka wrote:

Knyte wrote: That's why I'm staying in good old Oregon. All the cool stuff our courts come up with get shot down by the federal courts. (Doctor Asisted Suicide, Lax Medical Marajuana Laws, Same Sex Marriages, etc.) You live in Oregon too?

Born and raised. And, I have no plans on ever leaving. I love it here. Though, I may defect to Canada, not becuase I don't like Oregon, but because I am really begining to hate the USA, and all the BS going on at home (Stupid Laws) and abroad (Iraq, Policing the world when no one asked us too, and pissing off every other country.)

I keep that in mind if I need to commit suicide.
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I'm alergic to THC. Serious.

I tried pot once as a teenager and my throat swelled shut and I had to be rushed to the hospital. I told my mom I got stung in the neck by a bee. (My only other serious alergy.) I told the doctor the truth though. Gotta love Doctor/Patient confidentiality.