I love the constant church-bashing going on in this thread. You are all so original. In any case, to the point. If the mother dosnt want her son to play the game, and "would never buy it" who got it for him? If you truly dissaprove soo much, why don't you just make the console disappear one day. The kid needs to learn to listen to his mother. Reminds me if the 10 year old girl that was tazed awhile ago...
Mom Calls 911 Over Son's Non-Stop Gaming
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Not at all, delusional mental states are a fact of life. Not all of us have the courage to call a spade a nutbag.Disaster Button said:
wow... God help your kids if you have any or any future ones. "embarassing"??!!! are you fuking insane!? yes, a father beating their child while drunk AND high is "embarassing". lmao ya of course now your older i'm sure you both want to ignore it but it sure as hell isnt because it was "embarassing". embarassing is when my dad was drunk and decided to attack me and i droped his ass. i hate violence but it doesnt mean i wont fight and he learned that real quick. "oh you play games all day and dont do shit" yes i reply while i have straight A's and do as much as i can in weight training. its never a '"HAHA you got served I was right!" attitude." with me. its an "i'm right as usual and now your pride has been hurt" attitude. if i was a HAHA person then the next day when he made a joke about it with a fight club reference i would have laughed and said ya i sure beat ur ass good or something but no, i cired cuz no matter how stupid my parents are i love them and live to help ppl not harm them.chronobreak said:
no i didnt say let them do whatever they want but parents do need to get with the times. i was a straight A's student and yet i couldnt play games all day. one hr a day... excuss me? so let me get this right i cant interact with a video game all day but i can sit and vegi in front of the TV watching whatever is on all day... stupid and flawed is my mother in the terms of everyday life yet she has masters degree.
you are right that parents need to set reasonable boundaries for their children to follow but not only resonable they also need to be smart about it. like the one hr games 23 hrs tv... dumb and uncalled for. staying up til 2:30 in the morning? maybe, maybe not...if they werent doing anything the next day...er... later that day then why bother him. although be sure to get his ass up early like 8ish and make sure he doesnt sleep all day so he will go to sleep at a good time so he can get up for school...oh wait its winter break... hmmm.
NOT WILL said:Master_Fubar23 said:eh, he could of been dumb and turn it offAlone Disciple said:
Which leads to the obvious question: who gave him the game then? I mean, someone should have thought that giving an MA15+ game to a 14-year old was a bit iffy.
god knows I've been designing a level on that some nights and you turn to the clock and see it's 3 in the morning.Donrad said:
This reminds me of a story about someone who called the cops coz their kid opened his xmas presents early.
The interesting part of the story, that's sadly absent, is apparently she called the police as a statement to the strict rules of how you can and cannot punish your child.
Yup.Woodsey said:
"AAAAAARCH!!! OH THE PAIN!!! AAAARRGHHH!!!
"WAH! WAH!"
"There we go! It's a boy!"
"*pant* Fuck that hurt. But on the bright side, that's it."
"Well, uh... you still have to raise hi-..."
"Hey, you know what, I think I can do this a few more times, doc. See you in about a year."
"Uh, ma'am, don't forget the ba-..."
"Bye!"
14 years later...
"BOOHOOHOOO!!! My kids don't respect me!!! Ban all videogames!!! It's all their fault!!!"
/facepalm
Who goes to bed on a saturday night? Especially if you're doing a weekrnd gamer streek. Madness i tell you, Madness!
1. she has the support of her church. this alone says alot, especially cause if u think about it, you pray before a ancient symbol of torture and consume symbols of flesh and blood (assuming your that religion, im athiest so i dont got a clue.) when u got the full fledged support of the followers of the people who do this, then we got a problem.
2. parents are blaming video games because they are dipshits. seriously, this is like blaming the radio for a kid getting into a fight. its not the radio, its the parents who are to damn retarded to actually care about their own childs life. you know someone killed themselves because they played wow, and that a baby suffocated because the parents were busy playing wow? most people would say "so wow must=essence of all evil" no, it was the dumbass parents who werent paying attention to their own child. its called neglect, not anything video game related, even if it was the game that caused the neglect. neglect happens everyday, everywhere. just because theirs a new entertainment media doesnt mean that all problems can get traced to it alone.
so to wrap up this uncomfortably long rant on stupid parents, this lady is a moron.
2. parents are blaming video games because they are dipshits. seriously, this is like blaming the radio for a kid getting into a fight. its not the radio, its the parents who are to damn retarded to actually care about their own childs life. you know someone killed themselves because they played wow, and that a baby suffocated because the parents were busy playing wow? most people would say "so wow must=essence of all evil" no, it was the dumbass parents who werent paying attention to their own child. its called neglect, not anything video game related, even if it was the game that caused the neglect. neglect happens everyday, everywhere. just because theirs a new entertainment media doesnt mean that all problems can get traced to it alone.
so to wrap up this uncomfortably long rant on stupid parents, this lady is a moron.
Yeah clearly you havn't met my mother then. Honestly, she dials the cops in her sleep sometimes. But yeah she unplugs my PC, attempts to kick me out the house and then threatens to call the police. Why can't they leave us to go insane on our own?Andy Chalk said:Mom Calls 911 Over Son's Non-Stop Gaming
A stressed-out Boston mother recently decided that the best way to handle her young son's non-stop videogaming was to call 911 on him.
When Angela Mejia woke up at 2:30 in the morning last Saturday and realized her 14-year-old son was playing videogames in his bedroom despite being told to go to sleep, she marched into his room and unplugged his console. Then, as the inevitable argument ensued, she took matters to the next level: She called 911.
"I have support from my church, but I'm alone," she told the Boston Herald [http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091221the_911_on_video_game_obsession_frazzled_roxbury_mom_calls_the_cops_on_teen_gamer/]. "I want to help my son, but I can't find a way."
He had apparently been playing Grand Theft Auto [http://www.rockstargames.com/iv], an "exceedingly violent" game that Mejia said she strongly disapproved of. "I would never buy that kind of video. No way," she said. "I called [the police] because if you don't respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?"
Police responded to the scene and were apparently able to talk her son into turning off his PlayStation and going to sleep". "They were just like, 'Chill out. Go to bed'," the boy said.
"Clearly, it's a very, very rare situation for someone to call the cops," said Grand Theft Childhood [http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Home.html] author Lawrence Kutner. "That she went to the extreme of calling the police tells me more about her level of frustration than anything else."
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She immediately lost any credibility when she mentioned support from her church.
So, naturally she's just another crazy on the pile.
So, naturally she's just another crazy on the pile.