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Did a 7-year-old boy learn to drive from video games?
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Games Blamed For Kid's Joyride
The Escapist : Latest News — What inspires a 7-year-old to take his father's car out for a drive? Why video games of course! It's a well known fact that everything bad in the world is the fault of videogames. They killed the dinosaurs and are responsible for global warming. So in the grand scheme of the horrific, world-shaking things that videogames have done, teaching a kid in Utah to drive is fairly small fry. They didn't do it of course, except in the mind of Captain Klint Anderson of the Weber County Sheriff's Office, who clearly is not a gamer himself. Hell, they didn't even kill the dinosaurs! The story behind this is that a 7-year-old by the name of Preston Scarbrough took his ...

Here We Go Again: 7-Year-Old Drives Car; GTA Blamed [Sigh]
Kotaku — In Utah last Sunday, young Preston Scarborough took the family sedan for a spin. Instant media sensation, of course. A Fox News anchor was bold enough to ask did teh Grand Theft Auto do it? In the video, which you may see here, Klint Anderson, a spokesman for the Weber County Sheriff's Office, mentioned that Preston's dad took away a driving video game, which is a good detail, fine. But the anchor smells the blood in the water. "Ahhh, ahh, something like a Grand Theft Auto? Something like that?" Objection! Leading the witness! To be fair, Anderson didn't take the bait. "I have no idea," he said, "I didn't ask the father ...

Videogames get the blame… again
BeefJack — ... father decided to tell NBC’s Today Show that he thought the sirens outside his house were coming from one of his son’s videogames. The father then confirmed to NBC that he has grounded his son and banned him from videogames for 4 days. The stand out point of the story for me is that the father thought the sirens were coming from his son’s bedroom and obviously thought his son was in the room too, when in fact the son was being arrested for driving the family car. Good parent? Source: GamePolitics Tagged as ...