If there’s one thing more controversial than a Grand Theft Auto release, it’s Grand Theft Auto mods. While these tweaks and additions to the game are not officially endorsed, they can still cause trouble, as Hot Coffee proved. Recently, some videos have hit Youtube depicting real-life police cruisers that have been reproduced in the game, and police officials aren’t happy.
Videos are currently depicting cars from Prince William County, Montgomery County, and Fairfax County in Washington D.C. More than the simple appearance of the cars, cops are upset at some of the things the car’s riders are doing, such as stepping out of the vehicle in full police uniform and gunning down innocent civilians, something that the police want to assure us they do NOT do.
“One of the reasons we find it in poor taste is because of the way the officers are depicted,” said FCPD spokesman Don Gotthardt.
The modder clearly doesn’t mean any harm by this and was just making textures based on real-life vehicles. Checking out the video of the guy claiming to have made them (below the jump), it doesn’t look like he was deliberately trying to piss anybody off. It’s understandable that the cops are upset, of course, but it’s just a silly mod and I doubt anybody playing GTA: San Andreas thinks that all cops like to get out of their cars and randomly shoot people.
Just the really dedicated cops do that.
