Grand Theft Auto Teaches 6 Year Old To Drive!

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Just what are children learning when exposed to violent video games like Grand Theft Auto? How to drive, according to one Virgina 6-year-old.

The Associated Press is reporting that the child missed the bus to school Monday morning, and decided to take his family's Ford Taurus instead. The boy made it almost six miles before crashing into an embankment and utility pole just a mile-and-a-half shy of the school. He suffered only minor injuries, and a county sheriff told the news agency the determined boy began walking the rest of the way to school after the crash.

According to the report, the boy told police he had learned to drive by playing unspecified games in the Grand Theft Auto and Monster Jam series.

The boy's mother was asleep when he took the car keys, police said, and both parents are charged with child endangerment. Both the boy and his 4-year-old brother were placed in protective custody.
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Ofcourse this is just more ammunition for the "videogames are the route of all evil" crowd but its the irresponsible parents who are to blame, I mean seriously what parent isnt up anyway to prepare their 6 year old for school (at least take them to the bus stop).

I actually found it quite ammusing that the kid managed to drive so far with just something like GTA for training!.. and then he continued to walk to school after crashing... clearly he felt it was a mission or something!

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Haha Thats awesome if you ask me! How did someone not notice this and try stopping him, maybe a cop? SOmething?! Wowie... One thing that keeps me going is if he can drive that far driving in GTA, Imagine how awesome he'd be driving in GT5!
 
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Ofcourse this is just more ammunition for the "videogames are the route of all evil" crowd but its the irresponsible parents who are to blame, I mean seriously what parent isnt up anyway to prepare their 6 year old for school (at least take them to the bus stop).
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Or, indeed, lets their 6 year old play 18 certificate games? (Rhetorical question.)

There's no substitute for proper parenting.
 
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Or, indeed, lets their 6 year old play 18 certificate games? (Rhetorical question.)

There's no substitute for proper parenting.
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Link to story, from Associated Press.

I know the under-17 crowd is going to hate this answer, but the answer is a seriously bad bunch of parents. A 12-year-old could play it with no ill effects, as long as he was a sane kid with no mental issues, but a 6-year-old really shouldn't even view it being played, for too many reasons to name.

On the other hand, give the kid some credit; he wanted to go to school. Of course, most 6 year-olds actually want to go school; something that wears off after a few years. Edit: After reading it again, he gets breakfast as school, so he had some hunger issues, too.

[/Hides keys to higher shelf from 2-year-old]
 
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I could understand the outrage and the connection to GTA if the article had been about a boy who began a career in organised crime after playing the game - but driving?

I can see the headlines now 'Grand Theft Auto Teaches 6 Year Old To Buy Hotdog and cheap imported russian clothing' :rolleyes:
 
Ahh, so all the griefers driving like idiots in MP are actually children trying to make their way to school. It all makes sense now ;)
 
Begs the question though, what sort of contraption did he build to reach the pedals? Or see over the wheel? And how did he figure out the immobilizer password, if there was one?

Seriously, when I was 6, I couldn't even see over the dash if I tried - and even at 10, I probably wasn't tall enough to reach the pedals while seeing over a steering-wheel...
 
I think the main thing that everyone is forgetting here is that he still crashed. :lol: So it didn't teach him a lot really, if it's an auto too it would have been very easy. Unlike a proper car with 3 pedals. ;)
 
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I actually found it quite ammusing that the kid managed to drive so far with just something like GTA for training!.. and then he continued to walk to school after crashing... clearly he felt it was a mission or something!

Robin.
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Haha I would put his driving down to natural talent, not a chance GTA could teach anyone how to drive EVER.
 
LOLLL

Determined little fella....wonder how much he got for completing his "mission":dopey:

All jokes aside, the parents deserve what they got. Letting young children play GTA is unacceptable.
 
Surely this story is not real and somebody involved has made up this as some sort of a cover story. How can a six year old know how to drive, let alone actually be able to do it and Grand Theft Auto teaches nothing about driving. As we know too, he should never have been playing GTA, so that is certaintly the parents fault.

Sure I played it when I was not old enough, but playing at six should definitely not happen, however I have never once done something illegal because of a video game, as I am sure others have not. It is just the case that something is always someone else's falt these days, blame culture is seriously messed up, come on people accept responsibility for your actions.

In this case however, this seems too fake to be true so it probably is.
 
I bet if the kid would be training how to drive on GT5p instead GTA he woudn't crash but they would probably get him on the radar sooner or later:)
 
I played driver 1 etc when I was 5 and its only because driving is in my blood. I was scared of the shooting parts and only played to drive around in a sort of city. Sure I knew how to drive when I was 6 but there is NOOOO way I could reach the pedals. That has to be impossible.
 
Teriffic parenting.:rolleyes: According to one of the comments made in response to the article the parents have been involved in the child welfare system several times before.
 

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