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6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive

Posted by timothy on from the buck-beats-scapegoat dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Prosecute the parents by vawarayer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's mod the parent "Redundant".

    What I find more and more redundant or offtopic these days on /. is comments about mod points

    Please let the moders do their job. They probably can think for themselves.

  2. And The Win Goes To Iran by nick_davison · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmm, interesting priorities. I, for one, would rather get stoned and laid than shot and killed...

    In Iran, getting laid can lead to you getting stoned and killed. That's three to both your nations' half hearted two.

  3. Re:Prosecute the parents by sortius_nod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Vite 1 DeathElk for prime minster!

  4. Re:Prosecute the parents by theM_xl · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In how many of the cases does someone getting shot count as accidental, anyway? I suspect the number of deaths caused by cars INTENTIONALLY is a lot lower than the number of deaths by gun.