Here's a weekend special for you, sure to be taken by tabloid media outlets like Fox News and warped into an anti-video game manifesto. In Redwood City, California, a ten-year-old boy recently came to school armed with an Airsoft gun (a pellet gun designed to look like the real thing). He put it to the head of a six-year-old school mate and demanded he hand over his Pokemon cards. Now he's in juvenile hall.
Not unlike the Mortal Kombat murder and the game it's named after, my first reaction in reading this story was "Does anyone play with Pokemon cards anymore?" Then my thoughts immediately turned to more adult questions like "With all the real crime going on every day, why is this even news?" and "Why are the Pokemon cards named in the headline of the story, and not the name of the super dangerous pellet gun the kid somehow got access to?"
The witch hunt continues, my friends.
[Via DSFanboy]
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better buy him a gun so he can defend himself
Wanna get shot? Flash a gun around. The only people not running away from you in complete terror will be the people shooting you.
*note: this was before I started playing video games...
Yes I must.... or should I? I mean... that kid has over 61 ps2 games, 14 ps1 games and countless of other games I could play...
No, I luv him too much! I must buy him a gun soon!
if you love your cousin you'll buy him a gun.
...give them to me.
You showed me your Pokemans... now give me them!
However, your caption is just as good. And, I didn't know Pokemon condoned violence, I thought violent bloodspilling games did.
I agree with notdyrad, 11/10.
Still, though, completely messed up kid.
All your suggestions have been totally lulz-y. But I ate a big meatloaf and am now too tired to try and edit the pic.
Next time though, for rizzle.
Oh and...
@ ZServ, that was a pic I found on the internets of a random gun toting kid. I don't know the races of the actual kids from this post, but I assume they are white. Actually, if race isn't mentioned in a news story, I always just assume everyone involved is white.
White = default race.
BTW, good caption. Keep it the way it is.
Anyway, this shit is ridiculous. Gogo stupid people.
The only good thing was that I wasn't "threatened" in either of these heists.
Now I'm a soph in college, and I've learned from my mistakes; don't trust anyone, and keep everything within close contact (pockets are friends).
a kid steals using an illegal gun and the one to blame are videogames!
because:
- parents should not be aware when their kids have guns, its bad for the kids privacy to ransack his room in search of illegal weapons!
- parents should also not teach their kids that it is wrong to steal, why else do they send them off to school?
- parents should not teach anything to their kid, they pay good money to get them to school and the school is the 'teaching' institution, so parents can relax, place their kids in front of the TV and get drunk!
- of course the parents can't be blamed, they have nothing to do with the kid! they have entrusted the education of their kid to the TV and the schools, they can't help it if those 2 blow it and their kids becomes a criminal!
FFS, if my (future) kid would steal I'd punish him a lot worse then justice ever could... And I loathe people who don't take responsibility for the actions of their kids, the person that raises them is responsible for them so people should learn to fucking take that responsibility if they want to breed so badly...