Cubetopia» video games http://www.cubetopia.com Interesting Stuff In The Cube Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:15:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Boston mum calls police to stop son from playing Grand Theft Auto http://www.cubetopia.com/2009/12/boston-mum-calls-police-to-stop-son-from-playing-grand-theft-auto/ http://www.cubetopia.com/2009/12/boston-mum-calls-police-to-stop-son-from-playing-grand-theft-auto/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:30:31 +0000 Cubez http://www.cubetopia.com/?p=505 Games these days are so addictive. I’m not a player of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), but a woman in Boston could not get her 14 year old son to stop playing the game and go to bed, and finally resorted to calling the cops.

The police who answered her call at around 2:30 am fortunately agreed to help, and persuaded the boy to wind his game up and go to sleep.

Police officer spokesman Joe Zanoli said that the 911 call was “a little unusual, but by no means is it surprising — especially in today’s day and age when these kids play video games and computer games.” Haha.

I can understand because I used to be addicted to games as well, and it is no sweat to be spending all day and all night playing until you forget to even eat or sleep. But if every mother is going to resort to calling the cops for such situations, it’s going to distract the police from much more serious cases.

More disturbing are people dying from playing too much computer or video games like this case in South Korea.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

Source: Yahoo News

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