http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/interna...m?id=568402003

Man can't these goons get it? It's JUST a movie.

I remember another group of losers actions were also blamed on the matrix a couple of years ago.

I'm just waiting for someone to try to imitate the Twins move and morph into a moving car.

This is putting the cart before the horse. It's nothing new for schizophrenic/boarderline psychotic people to believe that the world they live in is false. That's what drove Philip K. Dick to create such influential paranoide sci-fi. It's just that now with the popularity of the film, crazy people can give a name to the paranoia they've always felt, and that name is: The Matrix

It's that sense of paranoia that the world around you is false or a game (hasn't everyone had these fears and thoughts, I know I have?) that the Directors drew upon in making the original film.

These judges didn't let them off simply because of "The Matrix Defense" but rather that these people are clearly nuts if they bring up the Matrix. The real coincidence that should be examined is what do these people have against their landlords?

Are you saying he was schizophrenic/boarderline psychotic or just inspired by this? (It seems the former, but I haven't heard that before)

Little of both. Dick is a very interesting character. No one knows how deep his paranoia really ran. Some say that it killed him in the end.

He was what we would today call manic/depresive, and he was very paranoid. From accounts I've read he truely believed that he was living in a constructed world.

maybe he was right, maybe we are living in a sort of constructed fantasy, a virtual world that in realit- aaaaaarrrghhhhhh.....(transmission interrupted////----protocol 23465/475868)