Mom Calls 911 Over Son's Non-Stop Gaming

[Flipscore]

"I have the support of my church". /Sigh... Well, you don't have mine.

Good thing you're so much more tolerant than the religious people, otherwise you would just judge them based on their WAIT A MINUTE.

Anyone who decides to not listen to this person or any person based on personal religious beliefs is someone who's opinion is inconsequential. Without the respect to listen society will never change.

With all that said, there may be some deeper issues inside this story. Obviously nobody's first instinct when their child won't go to bed is "Call the Police." Luckily, no one on these forums will give her any benefit of the doubt, so I'll do it instead.

You know how there are some bad people out in the world? Well sometimes bad people used to be bad kids. Some bad kids live in homes where the authority level is low, so they adopt an attitude of superiority. This is very bad, typically for submissive mothers. So you take a jerk kid and a Mom who showers her little baby with love and he turns into a jerkass who doesn't listen to anything she says and treats her like crap.

Their differing personalities make this difficult to rectify, as she won't speak up to him and he won't listen to her. Usually in these scenarios it's an only child vs. single parent.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that their repeated conflict culminated when he wouldn't listen to her (again) and she literally felt powerless and was forced to contact an outside power. Someone with force that the child would listen to. The Police fit that role nicely.

Also everyone here needs to stop with the crap about not knowing her son purchased the game. You aren't raising her child, you don't know what she is dealing with. It is entirely possible that this child purchased both the console and the games. We don't know the full story.

The last thing I have to say is that this really isn't about the game at all and we all know it. So why is it being discussed on this site or any other site? This is none of our business.

 

[dex-dex]

"I would never buy that kind of video. No way,"

Then how did he get it? Stores generally have a policy against selling to minors.

when i wanted a game that was rated 18+ they asked for ID
i bribed one of my friends to get me the game instead
so that is one way around that

 

[Hazy]

As a parent, I can only imagine what kind of little shit this kid must be and what he puts his poor mother through. She needs to mom up, and give the damn console away to someone, but if she has this much trouble disciplining her son maybe if she did that the kid would go psycho on her. She's probably afraid of him to some degree to let him walk all over her like that.

Also, from the looks of the story, she's a single mom. This kid is just a brat, too bad the cops couldn't take him away for a bit.

The kid is most likely a teenager, and is enjoying living it up on the break from school.
Completely normal.

Now I admit that he should have acknowledged the fact that she told him to go to bed, and respected his mother by doing so. But assuming that he would go psycho on her if she did anything to stop him?

Really now? We're being a tad dramatic.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Mom Calls 911 Over Son's Non-Stop Gaming
7 because if you don't respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?"

Get laid

BOOM! ... Headshot!

 

[Nimbus]

If it was your kid, you wouldn't get rid of the console, if he or she was not listening to you when you told them to shut the damn thing off? I'm just assuming here, obviously, but I doubt this is the first time this has happened. I'm sure it has been quire a thorn in her side for some time, watching her kid play video games all the time, if that is the case. She needs to put her foot down.

If it were my kid, this is how the conversation would have gone:

"Hoi!"

"What?"

"If you're playing at 2 in the morning, use headphones!"

"Ok!"

Seriously, even if he were up until 8 in the morning, you'd have to be completely bat-shit insane to call the police.

 

[chronobreak]

Heh, yeah, the very little information put before use clearly indicates this kid is nothing more than an elusive brat who'll stop at nothing to torment his poor mother.

Also, may I ask, are you a rocket scientist? Only I ask because taking a single newspaper's word for the truth and writting "give the damn console away" on a gaming forum is always the best way to make friends around a gaming forum whilst showing the world how open-minded you are.

I'd also like to point out, if the mother would never buy GTA for her son, how did he get hold of it?

No, I am not a rocket scientist. I already have friends on this forum, I'm really not too worried about making any more. What does what I said have to do with open-mindedness, exactly? I offered my opinion on what she should do. Does that mean I am automatically not open to any other opinions? Is anybody with an opinion not "open-minded"? I'd like to hear your response.

On your second point... are you kidding? You think that is the only way, the ONLY way a kid can get hold of a game? Even not by...

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)

The information put out there is the kid didn't listen to his mother. The mother called the police on him. As I already stated, the mother clearly did the wrong thing, but on the other side of the fence the kid wasn't doing what he was supposed to be doing either.

 

[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.

 

[Desert Tiger]

Stopped reading after "I have support from the church".

Coming from a guy who's pulled several all-nighters, playing until 2:45AM is a little tame. I'd be in prison for life right about now if this woman was my mother.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

All I have to say is this

 

[Desert Tiger]

Also, that source is golden. I think they must be handing out doctorates on street corners next to the fat tramp that tries to sell Big Issue to me every time I walk to college.

 

[chronobreak]

If it were my kid, this is how the conversation would have gone:

"Hoi!"

"What?"

"If you're playing at 2 in the morning, use headphones!"

"Ok!"

Seriously, even if he were up until 8 in the morning, you'd have to be completely bat-shit insane to call the police.

Fair enough. I don't let my kids stay up all hours of the night, but that's just me. Everyone has different parenting styles, but I just know I would not want to deal with tired and cranky kids all day, and a good routine is recognized as an important part of parenting across the board.

I wouldn't call her batshit insane in general, but she probably was in that moment. Everyone does stupid things, however, at some point in their life. I just think instead of pouncing all over this woman people should give her a little bit of a break, just a little. Or at least not call her names and insult her outright. I'm also not ignorant enough to think she would get a fair break on a gaming forum filled with angsty kids who may be around the same age as her son she is trying to discipline.

Even worse are the people that are bashing her religion. All she said was she has support from her church, and people are jumping all over that little quote trying to make her out like she's some religious nut. It isn't right at all, not only that people are saying it but that they are being allowed to make such ignorant assumptions on what is, overall, a fairly intelligent forum. How could anybody make that leap of logic?

Really now? We're being a tad dramatic.

I did not propose that as what happened, but rather what the case MAY be. If you think it's overly dramatic, don't take it so seriously.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Some parents are just.. Wow.

Oh, and I read the article about the mother asking her sons arrest for opening a present early.

Same thing, but to quote another

Holy.. fuck.

 

[UberCharlie]

Wow. Everybody's jumping on religion like Jack Thompson jumps on video games. Not everybody who goes to church is a foaming-at-the-mouth loony.

Anyway, back to the topic. When I was a kid, my grades slipped. I wasn't very inclined to do my homework. Maybe it was video games. My Dad came into my room and cut the power cord on my television. With a knife.

When my grades got better, I got my games and TV back. That's effective parenting.

 

[Sparrow]

"Morons. They're everywhere. (TM)"

Yes. I just trademarked that. Why? Because stuff like this comes up so often. I'd do the whole suing thing over the edge (hur hur) and makes MILLIONS.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Clearly it's Rockstar's fault that she is too stupid to discipline her child properly.

 

[twistedmic]

In a way, I can see the kids side of things in the whole incident (late night gaming and following argument). Yeah, he was up late (probably later than he should have) but the article states that she 'Marched in and unplugged the console.' It doesn't say that she asked or told him to shut if off, she just unplugged straight away ( which could possible mess up the system or wipe part of the hard drive.
Seriously, how would yo react if someone walked in and pulled the plug on your console or computer, regardless of your age? Would you be calm about it? Or would you be seriously pissed off?

 

[TheOnceandFutureKing]

see this is why I drink

 

[rokkolpo]

what a sad mother.

you need to earn your kids respect the right way.
and get an occasional kick from dad.

that'll do it. no police involved.

 

[Danpascooch]

"I have support from my church, but I'm alone"

Support from the church? Yeah, I'd feel like I was completely alone too, lol

 

[SantoUno]

Normally I would scorn this type of behavior, but then again...

"I called [the police] because if you don't respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?"

That line kind of swept me into sympathizing for her. I mean if you can force your child to behave in order to prevent them from becoming a bully, criminal, or just a plain ol' asshole then I support it.

Still, church mommy calling the police because her son wanted to keep playing games still isn't justified.