GTA game scares off burglars
p2pnet.net News:- Can this be true? And if it is, what’s the really scary part about it?
“Back in March, Sandy Wilson was taking care of her three grandsons when a group of men attempted to burglarize her home, pointing a gun at the kids,” says an ABC13 Eyewitness News story, going on:
“The children happened to be playing a video game called Grand Theft Auto at the time. The game has dozens of random police scanner messages, which blare out calls such as ‘This is the police! You’re surrounded!’ Believe it or not, Wilson says the burglars heard that message and thought police were outside the door waiting for them. Young victim Chaze Fisher apparently thought it was pretty funny, “How they were, like, ran off, and they got all scared over a game’.”
ABC123 says four men were arrested.
The story doesn’t say which version of GTA the “children” were watching. But there’s no such thing as a Kids’ Grand Theft Auto – the games all feature extreme violence and brutality with sexual undertones, and they’re totally unsuitable for kids of any age.
The really alarming thing is that the children were watching it at all, and with the approval of their grandmother.
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See:-
surrounded! – Robbers scared off by Playstation game get jail time, ABC13 Eyewitness News, December 12, 2004
extreme violence – San Andreas on p2p nets, p2pnet, October 21, 2004
December 12th, 2004 at 9:53 pm
It seems like those kids were really cool under pressure. Perhaps playing GTA helped them deal with this situation.
I think this grandmother should be applauded for allowing her grand children to play/watch GTA 3. Things might have turned out a lot differently if they were not playing the game at the time.
Drake
December 13th, 2004 at 8:30 am
I think that we of the ‘older’ generation should stop for a moment and remember how we used to love watching the coyote trying to ‘kill’ the roadrunner, only to be seriously hurt in a very cruel way. Did this make us grow up violent?
Toy ‘guns’ are pretty well frowned upon in this day and age, but I remember playing ‘cowboys and Indians’ and ‘cops and robbers’. The goal was to ‘kill’ the other guy. It didn’t make me, in my adult life, wish to posses a gun, for any reason.
I think this is because I was brought up properly. And if anyone back then was to say that my parents weren’t good parents, they’d be very far from the truth.
Violence is all around…from news reports (should we censor our kids from that, or try to help them come to terms?). Movies…sex and violence.
You can’t ‘censor’ your children. You can’t ‘not’ let them do/see/watch/play something because you think that it will somehow ‘distort’ their brains. Being a parent is a job, and that job is to guide them through this world, and to help them understand it.
By shielding them you are doing them more harm, in the longrun.
Kids will play the game, watch the movie, and read the news.
The real question is ‘do you want them to do that behind your back’?
If the answer is yes, then I’m sorry….
That’s the REAL scary part.
December 14th, 2004 at 4:43 am
I totally agree. This is similar to my comment here that some readers did not agree with http://p2pnet.net/index.php?page=comment&story=3106&comment=7286
The world is violent, and always has been/will be. To pretend otherwise is just naive. Murderous people far pre-date nintendo.