8 yr old boy steals car, GTA blamed

[CptStern]

An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said.

The third-grader told officers he "just wanted to drive around for a while" when he left the James Marshall School on Monday, officer Michael Amarillas said.


It's no wonder that the boy's favorite video game is "Grand Theft Auto", says the boy's mom.

http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_109100142.html


I'd love to grab mom and slam her head into the hood of her mini-van all the while yelling "DIDNT YOU READ THE FREAKIN LABEL? IT"S RATED "M" FOR MATURE, BLAME YOURSELF IDIOT"


oh look I got mad yelled and threatened to slam a women's head into a car ...must've be all the tv I watched as a child

 

[kirovman]

Stupid parents. It's HER responsibility, and yeah, blame the M rated game that you bought for your kid. Yeah, gg.

Can't she be prosecuted for that before there's any notion of blaming the game? I mean, she basically owned up to that crime.

Just like you don't buy kids "The Terminator" or hardcore porn.

 

[Parlez]

lol, and yet another one bites the dust. How is Grand theft Auto getting blamed for all of this? It says M for Mature on the front of the box! It is not GTAs fault that some kid to the game serious and then stole some teachers mini-van. I just don't know about all of this :|

 

[Sulkdodds]

Although I believe at the age of 8 the game could quite possibly have affected him. It teaches you road safety for one thing.

But then, he shouldn't have been playing it.

 

[xcellerate]

Yea right, GTA...

it's not like it's TV or anything, CSI, Cops shows, Judge Shows, Numb3rs, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES! Whatever happened to Home Improvement, and the other wholesome shows! Why is every show on TV about brutually masacred bodies, and trying to solve which 14 yeard old murdered them because he's mentally unstable!

 

[dys4iK]

Who did they blame for child car-theft before GTA?

 

[Harryz]

Wooooooo, go GTA!

 

[Jangle]

Who did they blame for child car-theft before GTA?

Music.

 

[CrazyJeepDriver]

Games get blamed for everything now it seems.

 

[Asknoone]

Her failure as a parent, and she blames it on a game. Ha!

 

[WhiteZero]

What did they blame this shit on before video games?

 

[Lucid]

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Of course they blame Grand Theft Auto, it's just such an easy thing to blame.

Soon Rockstar will go out of buisness from those freaking lawsuits that will pop up D:

 

[Evo]

Sheesh, get some parenting skills and don't let your 8 year old play an M game!

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

The only game I think is bad is Postal. While buring people alive, your character says things like "I guess it would be more politicaly correct to kill the woman and minorities first."

I mean, you don't get that kind of thing in GTA.

 

[kirovman]

Jack Thompson probably doesn't give a damn about racism.

 

[Reginald]

The only game I think is bad is Postal. While buring people alive, your character says things like "I guess it would be more politicaly correct to kill the woman and minorities first."

I mean, you don't get that kind of thing in GTA.

Haha. *loves Postal*

*wants Postal 3*

 

[Raziaar]

I love your sig, Darth Sidious.

 

[Dekstar]

The mother should be neutered.

It's the only way they'll learn.

 

[B_MAN]

blame the parents.

 

[Ennui]

wow.

i'm amused the woman thinks it's a games fault and not hers.

 

[Dog--]

Man, if my 8-year-old son stole a car, I wouldn't punish him, I'd contragulate him! HE'S FREAKIN 8 YEARS OLD AND DRIVING!

 

[el Chi]

It teaches you road safety for one thing.

No-one's focussing on the positive thing here: The kid "took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home".
Safely. The child is eight years old, yet managed to drive a car home, completely unscathed. If his inspiration for stealing the car was GTA, maybe his impeccable driving skills we also down to to it.
Heavens! This game should be practically lauded for such positive results!

 

[Dalamari]

Man, if my 8-year-old son stole a car, I wouldn't punish him, I'd contragulate him! HE'S FREAKIN 8 YEARS OLD AND DRIVING!

qft

Give that kid a cigar and a hooker, he's driving!

 

[Sparta]

Awesome parenting skills.

 

[Dekstar]

You wonder why driving companies don't make a game like GTA, just without the violence (maybe if you complete all the missions you get to have pedestrians you can knock down and crush. But make it so if you break the rules, then you get like an automatic number of points (depending on if you were seen by other cars or speed cameras, etc).


The game could be like a free-roamer over randomly (or not) generated roads... I'd buy it if it was good.

 

[Qonfused]

Man, if my 8-year-old son stole a car, I wouldn't punish him, I'd contragulate him! HE'S FREAKIN 8 YEARS OLD AND DRIVING!

QFT.

 

[CyberPitz]

The only game I think is bad is Postal. While buring people alive, your character says things like "I guess it would be more politicaly correct to kill the woman and minorities first."

I mean, you don't get that kind of thing in GTA.

I freaking love postal. One of my favorite games to play if I'm in the mood to laugh me arse off.

Yeah, people suck. It's like a new fad..."BLAME GTA, YOU'LL GET AWAY FROM ALL CHARGES!"

*sigh*