7 Year Old Hijacks Car To Avoid Ch...Wait, what the hell?

[NeedAUserName]

Thats ridiculous! The only reason 7 year olds should be stealing cars is to get out of doing homework. Seriously! People need to get their priorities right.

 

[Outamyhead]

So the kid learned how to use the brake, throttle, gear selector, and steering, without post-its on each item displaying the PS3/Xbox controller symbols?

Something stinks about that story, and typical of the church going parents to blame video games yet again, for an undisciplined child who does what he wants or he'll have a fit.

 

[swtstar777]

Wow... break one of the ten commandments to get away from church, now that's bad.

 

[Ginnipe]

I love how the news anchor immediately jumped to Grand Theft Auto when the officer mentioned he'd been grounded from a video game.

"We understand his father had recently grounded him from one of his video games which involves operating vehicles"
"Oh like Grand Theft Auto?"

I would think Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport, the cars in GTA are floaty as hell.

And yeah, I hate it when news anchors don't know what their talking about.

 

[Gladion]

This is why the ESRB exists.
Be just a tiny bit less lazy, and a lot of these things could be avoided.
Of course, its too much to ask for a parent to actually pay attention to how their kid is spending their time...

What? Are you saying his parents should have kept him from playing racing games (that are probably rated E), because of the danger of him stealing their car and driving it to escape church?

 

[Strategia]

I fail to see how the kid is wrong in any of this.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Learned to drive with thumbsticks? How does that help clutch control?

It's America, they all drive automatics.

You just put it in 'Drive' and away you go.

 

[Erana]

This is why the ESRB exists.
Be just a tiny bit less lazy, and a lot of these things could be avoided.
Of course, its too much to ask for a parent to actually pay attention to how their kid is spending their time...

What? Are you saying his parents should have kept him from playing racing games (that are probably rated E), because of the danger of him stealing their car and driving it to escape church?

Did I mishear, or wasn't GTA involved?

 

[ShadeOfRed]

This is an amazing story that seems newsworthy. If this were in Winnipeg however, it would just be another jacking and wouldn't make the news. We once had an 11/12 year-old regularly stealing cars for God knows what reason. It didn't even make A section in the newspapers. That's Winnipeg for you.

 

[Citrus]

That seven-year-old may not have balls, but he has balls.

 

[MasterSqueak]

I fail to see how the kid is wrong in any of this.

Yeah, he must have had a real reason to hate church if he would go to such extremes to escape it.

Did I mishear, or wasn't GTA involved?

That was an assumption by the newscaster.

 

[GamerPhate]

LOL .. the video of this is awesome. Its freaking hilarious when the car stops and that tiny kid pops out and darts off with this huge cop like trying to keep up.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Oh, come on, blame it on video games? Again? I'll say what I always say, it's the parents' fault. They're supposed to teach him that doing that is wrong, and to make him understand the difference of reality and games. And here's the big fat realization that most of those game-nagging people don't get. It's 1 out of a million. I've grown up with video games. Hell, I've even played GTA when I was 7. Would I steal a car, shoot somebody, or poop in a police mans hat or anything of the similar? No.

Anyway, he probably learned from watching his parents handling the wheel, and he probably learned the handling through video games. But that is still no reason to blame the video games.

What would be funny would be if someone made the video game equivalent of that guy saying: "Leave Britney alone!" on a Youtube video. Just exchange Britney with video games.

 

[joystickjunki3]

Wow, that kid could not have learned to drive like that from a video game, but I'm not even mad, I'm just impressed.

 

[Zildjin81]

Lol, the police chief says a driving game and the news lady immediately assumes GTA.

 

[mdk31]

Good on him.

 

[ElephantGuts]

PS: I'm having a glitch where if I try to read a topic I get a popup that says "failed to open page, aborting".

Me too! Are you using IE? I usually do, I'm on Safari right now. I hate being forced to use Safari.

 

[MasterSqueak]

PS: I'm having a glitch where if I try to read a topic I get a popup that says "failed to open page, aborting".

Me too! Are you using IE? I usually do, I'm on Safari right now. I hate being forced to use Safari.

I fixed it by switching to Firefox, but yeah, IE seemed to be the problem.

Wow, his parents bring him to church, he doesn't want to go, so he hijacks a car

WTF, he should respect his parents enough to do what they want,

Wow, no.
Family Unfriendly Aesop, much?
The kid shouldn't be forced to attend church if he doesn't want to.
I'm not saying you shouldn't force kids to do things that are good for them (like eating something other than ice cream,) but church is just not one of those things.

I agree.

My parents quit taking me to church because I hated it. Even if I was religious I couldn't hear the priest guy.