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6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive
nandemoari writes "A six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto.
Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game has been criticized by parent groups and crusaders (or in the eyes of gamers, nincompoops) like former lawyer Jack Thompson for years (Thompson once tried to link the Virginia Tech slayings to late-night Counterstrike sessions. He's since been disbarred). However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft."
I got fat off Pac-Man.
No mention of how many hookers he had blow him and then subsequently ran over.
thank goodness ho found a pole before a hooker.
Freudian slip?
... GTA also taught him that you can drive through lampposts, notice that he avoided the trees.
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The parents had car keys where the six year old could get them?
We're talking Grand Theft Auto here. Have you ever seen 'em use car keys? The kid probably bashed both his parents out of the car to steal it.
Are they assuming here that a 6-year-old who had never played GTA would not have crashed his parents' car? Seriously, a driving 6-year-old is bound to get into an accident no matter what games he has played.
Seek and ye shall find.
Epic fail! Pole Position didn't have reverse!!!
Karnal
Hell, I give me niece my car keys to play with. Course, she's only 1...
Do you know where your car is right now?
Yeah, that'd be grand.
:P
"I played GTA when I was 6, so now I'm an orphan."
Ezekiel 23:20
For getting a car that is driven with an analog stick and/or a D-pad
That was your kid, wasn't it...
It didn't - he looked all over the dashboard but just couldn't find the control sticks!
I had my first threesome at age 5. It was all because I played the shit out of Leisure Suit Larry and felt I needed to take it to the next level. My parents wanted to sue Sierra but back then they couldn't find a lawyer willing to take the case. What a shame Jack Thompson was too busy going after radio DJ's in those days.
Archie: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they were pushed out of windows?
Only if they were pushed into Linux...
not if that person had a gun...
Then I'd choose an out-of-the-way abandoned building which I have turned into my own personal torture game. I'd create a creepy doll with a recorded swazzle(google "Punch and Judy") laugh and drug all the contestants having them wake up to choose to kill one another in creative ways or die horribly.
unless your father IS a mobster, then I could see how the kid can imitate Tommy Vercety.
Hard to kill someone at ten yards with a hammer
Depends on your THAC0
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
If I was going to kill them from ten feet, ten yards, or ten miles...
I would use a car.
The kid probably hit the utility pole while he was trying to run over "a pimp or a ho" on the sidewalk...
I did the same thing when I was 5 or 6. Know where I learned to drive?
BY WATCHING MY PARENTS DO IT.
If I had to watch my parents do it, I'd want to drive the fuck up on out of there, too.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Your parents clearly shouldn't have let you watch them do it.
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In a rural type area, sure you might have more people that injure themselves with tools than guns
Tell that to Dick Cheney...