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Time Lord  Posts: 10078 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 754 Joined: 19 Dec 2007     |
Yay! Is there a prize? I'll take the Speedboat and a Gift Certificate. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 24 Nov 2008     |
Not the Wii users :P But still, that kid is dumb, he should have been glad to bus left him. Ditching school to play video games is a way of life :P |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 383 Joined: 18 Jan 2008     | He could learned it from just about everything that shows someone driving, GTA has nothing to do with it (even less, considering you don't see the way you drive, or change gears). |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 580 Joined: 25 Apr 2008   | I read about this in the papers this morning. Really, this kid must be some kind of virtuoso behind the wheel! I don't think I could drive 10 miles when I was 6... |
On the Record  Posts: 5788 Joined: 9 Jul 2008    |
Unfortuantly, its a matter of when, not if.
Well, that kid won't be sociopathic at all anywhere down the line. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3313 Joined: 1 Nov 2007     | This kid is such a legend. It took me hours to learn to start a car without stalling. GTA doesn't teach you that. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1290 Joined: 4 May 2008    | 6 is far too young to be playing GTA, but that's not the major issue. All kids will make a large mistake in their early life, and it just so happens this kid made an absolutly huge one. Whilst it is questionable how right it was for the parents to supply him with the game in the first place, it may not be them to blame. Maybe the kid was shit-scared of his gym teacher. Or really likes school. I dunno. I doubt it too, but it's possible. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 217 Joined: 4 Jan 2009  | nice one, parents should definitely pay more attencion especially what a 6 years old is playing. |
Beat Writer Posts: 217 Joined: 4 Jan 2009 | Now that theres some proof that buy playing GTA i can learn to drive a car ill just ditch the lessons for drivers lisence and buy GTA instead |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 617 Joined: 13 Jul 2006   |
I was thinking the same thing. I think he probably watched his parents while they drove (a shocking revelation, I know) and then decided to try it out when he panicked about not making it to school on time. He was just hoping it might be as easy as GTA, is all. Nobody's a perfect parent, but I'm more curious as to how the child obtained the keys. Did mom accidentally leave her purse unattended? ...or were the parents snorting cocaine, tossed him the keys, and asked him to pick up some groceries while he was out? |
On the Record  Posts: 6741 Joined: 10 Apr 2007   |
No, that's not a reason--the kid didn't kill a hooker to get his cash back or something; the story here isn't that a kid was playing GTA, it's that a 6 YEAR OLD KID DROVE TO SCHOOL! There's nothing in GTA that isn't in Monster Truck Jam that is necessary for the connection between the kid playing video games and the kid thinking he can drive. Any emphasis on GTA in this context is ridiculous--there's nothing about GTA that you won't find in Monster Truck Jam that is actually relevant to this story. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 411 Joined: 8 Jun 2008    |
Because it was a shotgun. Most shotguns use some sort of pellet or buckshot inside their shells. If it was just a regular pellet gun, I don't think the sitter would have been hospitalised, unless he was shot in the face or something. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1505 Joined: 6 Sep 2008   | Did the parents buy the kid the game? Did they even know he had it? The article doesn't mention that at all. When I was a kid, I had games I hid from my parents, because obviously if they knew I had them they would be taken away. If that was the case, charging the parents seems unfair, it's not like they told the kid to steal the car and get to class. I'm a parent too, and if my kid decided to do something stupid (and they all do at some point), I wouldn't want to be charged with something I couldn't stop. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 10318 Joined: 28 Nov 2007   | At least there isn't anyone commenting that they went too far taking the kid into protective custody. Believe it or not, there are actually people on Kotaku that said "Parents cannot be responsible for their kids every second" or even "boys will be boys." Why, oh why do these idiots (both the commentators and the parents) have the right to speak and procreate? Props to the kid for making it so far. Just wait until he can actually get his license. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1149 Joined: 12 Aug 2008 |
he also wouldnt have been driving :\ man i havent heard anything like this about videogames in a long time, wishful thinking had me wondering if people had started to come to their senses and that if you just dont give this crap to your 8 years olds, then you won't have this problem. the way i see it, by the time our generation is in its 40s and we are the primary influence, videogames will be accepted since the current people running the world were before the time of the nes and thus still dont seem to have a grip on it. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 162 Joined: 24 Dec 2008    |
yeah, wen i was 3, i stuck my sisters car keas in an electric outlet ZzZzZaAaAaAaP!!!!!!!!! |
On the Record Posts: 6741 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 |
Now there is! ;-D I mean, in how many millions of homes, for how many millions of mornings have there been millions of kids with access to car keys that haven't taken the car out for a spin? I mean, when you were growing up, exactly what precautions did your parents take to make sure you didn't take the keys and get in the car? I mean, what's next: we blame parents for allowing their kids to open the front door and run out into traffic? It's a hell of a lot more probable than a kid deciding to take the car out for a drive, but we don't call parents who allow their kids access to the front door irresponsible, do we? I mean, let's look at what the mom did from what we can tell: she had a car at her house, she was asleep while her kid was awake, and she had car keys in a place accessible to her kids. That's child endangerment? Oversleeping your kid's school start time is child endangerment? Leaving a car in your garage and the keys on the table is child endangerment? Little ridiculous when you think about it, isn't it? I mean, I should say that I can see taking the kid in just as a precaution, just like how every cop hands in his gun no matter how justified the shooting was. However, let's be honest--there's no *substantive* reason to take the kid into protective custody, just administrative 'better safe than sorry' thinking. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire Posts: 10318 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 |
When I was three, I stepped on a rusty nail. Barefooted. Twice. Edit: And Cheeze, there's a big difference between letting your kid walk outside when you are watching them and a tragedy happening, and giving your 6-year-old an M-rated game, then leaving your car keys within easy reach, not making sure your kid gets to the bus stop on time, not waiting to make sure he didn't miss the bus, and above all, not making sure he realizes the difference between fiction and reality. I mean, this isn't some 13-year-old kid who decided to take the keys and sneak the car away. The kid was 6. I'm sorry, but when you have a 6-year-old kid, you have to take certain precautions. Hell, I walked my brother to school until he turned 8, and made sure I was there to walk him home after school, just to make sure he was safe. |
On the Record Posts: 6741 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 |
You don't give driving games to 8 year olds because they might decide to drive a real car? Wow--maybe we shouldn't let our kids play Wii Sports because they might punch each other in the face! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1151 Joined: 7 Dec 2008  | Wow, he's already better at driving then me. I could not have survived 90% of the things he came across. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1083 Joined: 11 May 2008  | HA!... I lawled, that was brilliant... bad parenting aside I don't think the two should be taken away, but at least punished perhaps... the parents punished I mean...It's not like they actually allow the kid to drive normally, just play graphic video games. I have a friend whose been playing zombie games with his father since he was five. The only negative side effect at this point is that now almost every dream he has involves zombies, which isn't so much negative as hilarious... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4639 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  | His parents must have given him some infomation about how to drive, GTA dosn't exactly go into detail... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1290 Joined: 4 May 2008 |
I'm with you. But I still think protective custody isn't going to fix it. We honestly can't say how to blame the parents are. |
Beat Writer Posts: 162 Joined: 24 Dec 2008 |
OUCH, damn that must have STUNG LIKE A BICH, how long did you cry, if at all.......i didnt cry when i got zaped, i was LAGHING MY ASS OFF "big spark mommy BIG SPARK" |
On the Record Posts: 6741 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 |
What about when you're not watching them? Did your parents make sure you and your brother couldn't open the front door while they were sleeping and go for a walk? Did you have kid-proof doors? How about kid-proof ovens? Was it impossible for you to decide to 'make yourself breakfast' while they were sleeping?
This kid also played Monster Truck Jam, which is rated E. Are you saying kids can only get the idea to drive from M-rated games that involve driving, and not E-rated games that involve driving?
You have to make sure they can't get to the car keys? How many parents take that precaution? Do you think they're all negligent parents? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1207 Joined: 17 Oct 2008    | Six! how did that guy even reach the pedals!? |
Press Junketeer Posts: 411 Joined: 8 Jun 2008 | When I was 5, I ran straight through a swarm of bees and was lucky that I only got stung on the ankle. Around the same age, I also burned my hand by putting it on a burner that was no longer red, but it was still hot. :-D I've also cut myself playing with my dad's pocketknife, although I never played with it again after that, hehe. Hopefully this kid has learned his lesson of what not to do and will be wiser for it, cuz something like this would have scared the shit out of me when I was his age. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire Posts: 10318 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 |
Yes on the making sure we couldn't go outside when we were six by ourselves, no on the kid-proof doors, though they were always locked if they weren't staring at us, no on the kid-proof ovens, yes on not being allowed to make myself breakfast while they were sleeping.
Does Monster Truck Jam let you drive on realistic city streets?
If you don't think they know it's not all right for a six-year-old to drive the car, yes, you should keep the keys out of reach. And I don't see many parents leaving their keys within easy reach of a six-year-old. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 935 Joined: 28 Dec 2008  |
i also think that was very clever for a six year old to do but im not all that old and i play GTA, well not any more ever sence saints row 2 came out i started to think that GTA was a peice of SHIT! and i was right. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 935 Joined: 28 Dec 2008 |
the same way ricky bobby did in taladaga knights with a wiffle bat. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 137 Joined: 7 Jul 2008     |
I'm with you. There's more to this story. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3313 Joined: 1 Nov 2007 |
Well, your not six are you? I'm 17 and I've been playing 18 games since I was about 15, when I was this kids age the most violence I got was Ninja-Duck. |
On the Record Posts: 6741 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 |
How do you make sure kids don't go outside without kid-proof doors? Magic barriers? And um, I think it's a pretty safe bet that the mom didn't ALLOW her kid to drive to school, just like your parents didn't allow you to make breakfast. Just because a parent doesn't allow something, that doesn't magically make a kid unable to do it.
Is WICOMICO CHURCH, Va., is a city? Do you think "Realistic City Street Driving: the Game" would necessarily be rated M? Now, stop being a dick, and admit that there's no connection between this being an M-rated game and the fact that there is driving it in. You made an illogical connection: don't compound that by trying to defend it.
I see no indication in the facts of the story that there was any reason for them to think this six-year old thought it was okay for him to drive a car. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3664 Joined: 21 Jan 2008   | I'm glad the kid's safe... though, my sixth sense tells me he's going to have a 'swtern' talking to. |
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