6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive 504
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."
Re:Next up... (Score:5, Funny)
TFA lacks pertinent details... (Score:3, Funny)
No mention of how many hookers he had blow him and then subsequently ran over.
Re:Even better reason (Score:5, Funny)
thank goodness ho found a pole before a hooker.
Freudian slip?
Unfortunately... (Score:5, Funny)
... GTA also taught him that you can drive through lampposts, notice that he avoided the trees.
Re:Even better reason (Score:2, Funny)
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.
games don't create accidents. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pole Position (Score:5, Funny)
Epic fail! Pole Position didn't have reverse!!!
Re:Even better reason (Score:4, Funny)
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?
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:5, Funny)
"I played GTA when I was 6, so now I'm an orphan."
I blame the parents (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:2, Funny)
That's nothing! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:5, Funny)
Archie: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they were pushed out of windows?
Only if they were pushed into Linux...
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Even better reason (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:3, Funny)
Hard to kill someone at ten yards with a hammer
Depends on your THAC0
Re:I blame the parents (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but you should see what happens to the car when you press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start!
Choice number 3 (Score:2, Funny)
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...
Re:GTA? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:GTA? (Score:3, Funny)
Your parents clearly shouldn't have let you watch them do it.
Re:Prosecute the parents (Score:4, Funny)
In a rural type area, sure you might have more people that injure themselves with tools than guns
Tell that to Dick Cheney...