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Monday, a six-year-old boy in Wimico Church, Virginia, finding his mother asleep and eight o'clock fast approaching, took it upon himself to drive to school, Neatorama learned from the AP.
The boy -- whose name has not been released -- maneuvered turns, passed a few vehicles and careened off the road before running up an embankment and into a telephone pole. Fortunately, he only suffered a minor bump on the head, and still got to school by lunchtime.
His parents, on the other hand, were both charged with child endangerment, the sleeping mother being held without bond. The boy and his four-year-old brother are now in protective custody.
When the Northumberland County Sheriff's Department reached the boy Monday morning, and incredulously asked him how he'd learned to drive, he gave a relatively unsurprising answer: fro video games like 'Grand Theft Auto' and 'Monster Truck Jam.'
From the sounds of his joyride, he has studied those games pretty well. If only somebody would design a game called 'Defensive Driver.' [From: AP via Neatorama]
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Subscribe to commentsMelFeb 22nd 2009 11:32PM
Another example of bad parenting and the kid blaming something/someone else instead of taking responsibility. It is always easier to point fingers and say, "my kid learned it from that video game" than it is to say, "I don't pay attention to my kid, the games he plays or the kids he hangs out with"
I have been playing games since I was a kid and I loved the old Atari Food Fight game but I never went to school and started a food fight in the cafeteria. I liked Mario but I never walked down the road shooting fireballs are people, it may sound silly but it is a valid example if how dumb it sounds to blame a game.
Maybe it is something wrong with the kids mentally, maybe the parents, maybe the friends but regardless I think parents need to point fingers at themselves.