4:56 PM on 09.03.2008
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Usually, whenever we read about a Grand Theft Auto game post-release, it’s in reference to a mess caused by the game's supposed negative influences. We hear the ranting and raving over its violence, and its negative effects on today’s youth. Thankfully, we can report something much more light-hearted today. According to The Times, Grand Theft Auto was the catalyst of some quick thinking by an 11-year-old girl that helped save her family after a car accident.
The girl, Audrey Plique, and her family were driving to visit family on August 27th. Around 9 P.M., Audrey’s father began to get light-headed. His unease led to striking a guardrail and flipping their Jeep Cherokee four times into a ditch. Audrey called the accident a “scary experience,” and I would happen to call it a “nightmare.”
While her family hung in their belt buckles, suffering from injuries, Audrey was immediately alert and sought help after dragging her mother out of the vehicle. Audrey’s mother claims that the reason her daughter was so alert was a direct result of the lesson that Grand Theft Auto teaches us – overturned cars catch on fire and detonate catastrophically.
I won’t argue physics with Audrey’s mother, but I’m glad to know that she and her family are safe. I’m glad there’s a least one story about GTA in society that turned out quite well. |
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Insane Stunt Bonus!
Fuck you Axion, stole my joke.
I really hope that the car did indeed catch fire and explode. After they were all safely out, of course.
Wouldn't it be car mechanics as opposed to physics in relation to a car blowing up or not? Regardless, surviving a quadruple roll-over and having the presence of mind to counterbalance gaming hate is a damn fine feat. Especially since the girl was 11 years-old.
And, unfortunately, if anyone picks up this story, they'll be all "AAAAAARRRGH 11 YEAR OLD PLAYING GTA!!! AN OUTRAGE!!!"
But, amazing story, nontheless.
Fear is a gift.
son of a bitch
@ Sadistic
*sigh* What happened now?
lolz, I personally don't see anything wrong with an 11 year old playing GTA. It's pretty insulting to think that kids that age can't determine fantasy from reality. I played the hell out of some MK2 back when I was 11, and I never turned into a dragon and bit somebody's torso off.
@-PL-:
But, that totally would've been fucking awesome.
I've never played this game, but were it me, I would still try to pull everyone out of an overturned car strictly by virtue of it being an overturned car, not what could happen because it's overturned.
Why is an 11 year old girl playing GTA?
Finally, GTA teaches kids something not related to hookers and blow.
You don't get any points when you land upside down though.
At first I thought this was going to be a joke story, and expected it to be a Jim post. It's nice to have a story that doesn't follow the rest of the sheep.
@-PL-
It's all bullshit.
Kids with imaginary friends to researchers: "You know it's pretend, right?"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/202632_imaginary07.html
Yeah, I think most of the problems revolving around videogames are just from stupid or mentally unstable people who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions or mistakes. If you blame a video game, you're not crazy anymore, it's just the game's "spell" over you. It's pathetic.
I don't disagree with the ratings system, but I think it should be taken more as a suggestion rather than a restriction. I watched rated-R movies before I was 17. I think it would be a crime NOT to watch Die Hard before you're 18 years old. Games are exactly the same, a violent game isn't going to destroy the mind of a child. It might give a stupid kid "ideas", but that's just a stupid kid. It's only a matter of time before he does SOMETHING wrong.
"Audrey’s mother claims that the reason her daughter was so alert was a direct result of the lesson that Grand Theft Auto teaches us – overturned cars catch on fire and detonate catastrophically."
That's brilliant.
I don't remember if the cars still do that anymore in GTA4. They should have kept it in if its been saving lives IRL.
whoa...risky but godly they're saved!
I think this is almost as bad as people blaming GTA for crimes they commit.
It just gives credence to the rest of those idiots - if GTA is responsible for this kid saving her family, then it MUST be able to cause people to beat kids to death and steal cabs, right?
Immediately after escaping the car with her mother, her father, still in the car, turned completely greyscale and went into slow motion, until he awoke minutes later outside of the nearest hospital. Police are still looking for his $80 that escaped his pockets somehow.
@falinter: yeah cars don't explode from being overturned in GTA4. It was a nice change
This is cool. They didn't talk about GTA enough in the original article though.
I would like to add that I looked at pictures of the family that got in the wreck. They are all very ugly.
".....flipping their Jeep Cherokee four times into a ditch. Audrey called the accident a “scary experience,” and I would happen to call it a “nightmare.”"
pssssh. Amateurs. Try 15 times and getting ejected. Yeah, I roll cars like muthafuckin dice.
Pretty obvious 'lesson' that getting people out of an overturned car is a good idea. Some might even call it common sense. Unless the car actually blew up moments after an 11 year old physically dragged an adult out of it, I'm failing to see the point.
Maybe this mom is trying to justify that she lets her 11 year old play GTA?
Even though it's a good story for once, how can you pin this on GTAIV alone? Pretty much every movie and/or TV serial made in the last fifty years showcases the same event (cars exploding when crashed).
Hmmm. Okay.
First time a GTA article here has made me meh.
Next time I'm stuck in Manhattan, I'm going to throw someone out of their taxi ride and use it instead.
Lol
This is more believable than some of the other claimed video game storieds
This is a great demonstration on how games can teach, Not so much for GTA for the kiddies.
She's clearly playing the LAST gen version because in GTA IV they don't explode when they turn over.
My god, why don't you go out and buy a NEW-gen system? Dirty Pirate Hooker...
[/joke]
Awesome
This is great story, Jack Thompson just filed a lawsuit against that girls parents for letting her play GTA IV
@Capn Birdseye
"I think this is almost as bad as people blaming GTA for crimes they commit.
It just gives credence to the rest of those idiots - if GTA is responsible for this kid saving her family, then it MUST be able to cause people to beat kids to death and steal cabs, right?"
I completely agree the parallels are all there this is just giving GTA credit based on a loosely connected refrence instead of blaming GTA for somthing based on a loosely connected refrence in the game.
If that didnt make sense its because i am very sleep deprived.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Clearly, the only way I'll know for sure is if I find the parents and ask them whether they made a well-informed decision as to whether letting their young daughter play (or maybe watch, I don't know) Grand Theft Auto was a good idea.
Eh, I'm glad the story had a happy ending, in any case.
Clearly, this child has mutant powers. I have yet to meet an 11-year-old girl who could drag an adult woman from an overturned vehicle after being buffeted about as the car flipped 4 times.
There's kind of a difference between murdering somebody and blaming it on a video game, and rescuing your family and blaming it on a video game. I can't quite put my finger on how, but I'm positive there is a difference in there somewhere.
If we're going to say games aren't responsible for murder, which they obviously aren't, then we shouldn't, on principle's sake, thank them for enabling this girl to save her family. It's the person, not the game.
@DaedHead8: yeah, she dragged them out of the car, but this doesn't necessarily mean that she can't become a hooker and a cokehead, because of gta, too.
@ Lithium - nah mate it made perfect sense ;)
Um isnt GTA an 18 reated game?
And if she used GTA to rescue her parents she should have car-jacked a fireengine , ran over some pedestrians to get a hellicopter chase and then led them all to he crash site.
@ Axion: LOL!
About time a positive effect of GTA is reported about. :O)
You know as soon as she got her family out she jacked a new car to get them home.
i wish all kids could learn just the positives of gta
Lessons learned in GTA:
1.) Overturned cars blow the fuck up
2.) You can actually kill hookers to get your money back
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