While you have been consumed by the shutdown of the government , you probably missed the release of a boutique "televisual game" titled Grand Theft Auto V . And -- serendipitously enough -- there's recently been an outpouring of news stories that sound as though they could've been performed by one of the three GTA protagonists themselves.

5 Two People Parachute into NYC at 3 a.m.

We don't know if they were taking a cue from James Bond, GTA, or Point Break, but Manhattan security cameras caught two people parachuting near the Goldman Sachs building at three in the morning, presumably to beat the morning commute.

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No word on if they decided to mod their jump with horse masks.

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Officers who viewed the footage aren't sure if the pair parachuted from a plane or were base jumping (or exactly how many accuracy points they were awarded for landing on the designated spot).