Mom Calls 911 Over Son's Non-Stop Gaming

[Scumpernickle]

Why can't I blame my problems on video games?

 

[chronobreak]

1. Stealing it
2. Renting it
3. Borrowing it from a friend
4. Getting it as a gift
5. Paying for it
6. Finding it (slimmer chance than others)

1. Unlikely since places that sell and rent games don't keep games where people can get them.
2. Unlikely since there is a 93% compliance rate with the rating system in the US
3. This is the most likely, but if his mother didn't want him playing it and found out, she could have waited until he got up and taken the game out of the console and hidden it until he could take it back to the owner.
4. Maybe, but if the gift giver knew that the mother didn't want him to have it then it's a sign of disrespect to her from the giver and could be taken care of the same way as 3 without a return, maybe by snapping it in half.
5. See number 2
6. This is oddly more likely than any except gift and borrowing.

1. Don't know where you shop, but they keep plenty of games out at my local Sams Club, BJ's, and Best Buy.
2. Still could have rented it, but you're right, most places are pretty good about it.
3. She could have, and should have.
4. Could have been a gift from a buddy or a girl, who knows. Still, you're right, she should have disposed of it if that was the case.
5. Could know someone that works at the store or something, but alright.
6. I was really just throwing that in there for people who didn't want to take a few seconds to think of the possibility the game could have come from somewhere other than his parents.

 

[Charli]

It's called confiscation you ridiculous over-caffinated, religous harpie.

Worked on me when I was up playing Final Fantasy all night.
Mum just took the playstation off me and put it under her pillow. Told me to go the feck to bed and I could play it at the weekend.

Yeah I may have been sulking about it as a kid but dayum, it works.

But then the mother wouldn't have been able to sleep. I mean come on, a PS3 under your pillow, that's gotta be a painful night

Nah not at all, stuff enough pillows on top, you will never come across a more secure gaming prison. x_x

...I did once manage to spring my gameboy from it though...She got pissed.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

"I have support from my church"

Is it wrong that I read that and though, "well that explains everything"?

Eh, I don't think it's "wrong" exactly just a little misinformed. Case in point, my friend Alex's dad is a pastor and he plays quite a few videogames. Okay their mostly all racing games, particularly Burnout: Paradise, but still.

 

[yankeefan19]

As great as video games are, the main bad thing is how gaming is now an excuse for bad parenting.

 

[Chaos Theory]

says something more about the mother that the kid really.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

if my parents called the police every time I didn't listen to them I would have a worse history than Charles Manson.
OT: to me it seems an overly stressed out women who had little sleep at the time, and there for little reasoning, calling the police to help someone addicted. I stayed up to 2 yesterday playing a game, sure, but I turned it off and went to bed when I saw the clock.

 

[stabnex]

...and then he stole her car, plowed through two mailed boxes and an accountant and ramped off their houses for a 15,250 point trick jump.

 

[YoUnG205]

Haha what a crazy lady.

 

[matrix3509]

I can only imagine what that poor mom must go through trying to deal with such a little shithead. Still, she really needs to toughen up, if I ever had a kid like that, the little tyke would be taking a bullet train straight to toothless city. I guess its a good thing I'm not a parent, my kid would be terrified of me. At least I wouldn't be afraid of my own kid though.

Also its weird (and by weird I mean, it figures) that the only phrase people care about is the passing comment about the mother's church. I betcha Andy only included that comment because he knew it would attract the most scorn. I like the Escapist, but the community is about as predictable as an episode of DBZ.

 

[minidevil921]

Wow when my friend's dad tells us to stop playing Saints row 2 YOU STOP (he's a ***** most of the time)

 

[Link Kadeshi]

Sounds like this lady has "Soccer Mom" written all over her. I'm sure the kid was being a prick as well but it sounds like neither of these idiots could calmly come to a solution. The cops actually responded to this shit? Your tax dollars at work.

Unfortunately, if you were to call the police telling them that Martians have landed, climbed on your roof, started screaming communist propaganda while incinerating roaches, you'd find the police showing up. They HAVE to respond to calls. They don't know how far a situation will go, and not showing up because a stupid git gave them wrong or underrated information could end up poorly for all involved.
I honestly respect the Police, they not only will put their lives on the line for you at a moments notice, risking more of their lives than they're trying to save, but they have to deal with idiots like this. It's unfair to say she's a bad parent because she's a religious person, though being a religious nutcase can't be helping her much. I must say, though, I think the raving lunatics seem to be oddly attracted to religion. That would make a great Sociological evaluation, eh?

 

[ShadowsofHope]

I'm sorry, what? Atheists by atheism alone know nothing of religion? Whom is the elitist twat? Many, many non-believers do have knowledge into religion, which helps in debating against it when the time comes for such. I was a christian before I was atheist, so stop using blanket statements like such before you know for sure.

And, how exactly is she "helping" him, now? She phoned the fucking cops on him to get him off a game, neglecting her role as the parent in working out a way (oh how there was so many) to take the game/system/etc away from him, and solve the problem. That, is what is being discussed.

Dude, he said himself he didn't know >.> but still, wrong thing to say, and I'll take it back. And you're still an elitist twat if you're thinking that because someone's church i.e. part of the local community) supports them, they're an idiot.

She got him off the game, she called the cops because of the argument that followed. Did you read it?

Then, as the inevitable argument ensued, she took matters to the next level: She called 911.

So it's actually a domestic disturbence. Some parents don't choose to beat their kids like some people are suggesting and I'm quite worried about the amount of people laying shit on her for this.

Hyperbole - Extravagant exaggeration
I.e. The entire concept of his post.

He is wittingly poking fun at the woman's ineptitude to resolve the situation herself, and chooses to point the blame at the game being the problem, whereas her lack of parenting is the real issue at hand.

Did you miss the " "?

Okay then, show me where she blames the game for her troubles.

This isn't lack of parenting, this is getting up at 2:30 AM to tell your disrespectful kid to stop doing something and then having him yell at you when you try to do the right thing. How the hell can you blame her for this?

Where the hell did you get I said she was an idiot about the church thing? I said she was being idiotic for calling the cops for that, not church.

Alright, and wait.. two things that dont make sense here:

First off:

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.

Second off:

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.

Tell me if I'm reading this right, she unplugged his console and then.. they convinced him to turn off his already unplugged game system after she called 911 to "convince" him for her? I'm confused.

 

[Cloud_Ninelives]

The funny thing is usually the people who go out and shoot people because of videogames are usually the frat boy crowd that play Xbox and drink bear with their sports buddies <.<

 

[Angus565]

Maybe she should stop blaming video games and become a decent parent. Actually scratch that, she should become even mildly OK parent.
And were exactly in GTA 4 is there a part that teaches kids to disrespect their parents?

 

[scorch 13]

It just goes to show some parents are complete morons.

 

[grantkerr94]

christ... *facepalm*

 

[ohgodalex]

"I have the support of my church"

When you read that line, you can hear credibility die.

I love it when the first post says everything I want to say in the most concise manner possible. Makes my day.

 

[Olorune]

Now, y'see, she should have just picked up the console and thrown it out the window.

That's parenting.

No that's wasting about $300.

That mom sounds kind of...dumb. Calling the cops on your son b/c he wouldn't stop playing games? Really? And if he stayed up on a Friday night, unless he had something important to do on Saturday, so what?

I'd be more than willing to waste $300 if my child was so intent on disrespecting me.

You've lost if you think money is more important than your relationship with your child. The problem is the child not listening because of the system. Get rid of the system and the problem is on it's way to being resolved.

That's true, but I was just talking about if you wanted to throw it out the window. That IS a waste of $300. Just hide it or sell it lol.