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Nintendo DS Hurts The Children!
GameSetWatch has a humorous lampoon of an ABC-6 Action News report on the dangers your child can face in the seedy world of Mario Kart. From the article: "We've been struggling in trying to figure out how kids can be 'lured into dangerous chat rooms' while using the Nintendo DS, considering that the DS's chat program, PictoChat, can not be used over the internet, and also keeping in mind that the only way to interact with a living being over the internet through your Nintendo DS is to do so through a game that supports Nintendo WiFi Connection, all of which require both parties to input 'friend codes' before they can play with each other."
I don't know what's worse, the self-righteous tone of the article or emblazoning goatse.cx on my retinas.
Skip this stupid article. It isn't funny. It isn't interesting or insightful. It's dumb and obnoxious. Like Carrot Top.
Won't somebody please think of the children!
Demented But Determined.
The article is right. This is completely preposterous.
BTW, anyone who wants to win a free Nintendo DS* just visit AOL Teen Chat and send me your A/S/L.
*Free Nintendo DS not guaranteed
The ______ Agenda
This silly news station has an entire section devoted to children (http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=childre n_first&id=3297128). After browsing through it for a moment I found this little gem:
:P .
"I have a friend of mine who told me that his son was on-line when he was thirteen, and a sexual predator had wanted him to send nude pictures of himself to them, and my friend sent him a major virus for his computer."
This is from a *Police Chief* who doesn't seem to realize that he incriminated his friend. But then again, his friend probably wasn't l33t enough to send him a "major virus", so two wrongs might have made a right
Perhaps stupidity is infectious in this community?
Someone could also throw a DS to the kid's face after losing in Mario Kart.
//WR
You are way more mature than me. I asked them if there weren't any pretty missing white women they'd be better off covering.
On related note, how will the predator find which kid he is stalking?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Easy. Just look for the '13 year-old girl' with a beard, and badge.
It's obvious that you're gravely underestimating the devilish obsession and ingenuity of the Internet pedophiles! This short-sighted irresponsible behavior is placing your children in grave danger!
Have you never thought of driving in letter-shaped patterns, or even jumping in morse code?
Can you afford to take that risk when they walk among us?!