Videogames don't just corrupt the average high school teen -- you can blame them for all kinds of things, including the death of Adolf Hitler and the reason you keep having that unexplainable bleeding. In this most recent travesty, a pair of clearly suitable parents allowed their two young children to wander unsupervised throughout the Tampa motel they were in for several hours.
When the children were discovered outside their room, the police checked inside and found piles of trash and vomit in the room, but the parents were not there. The police took custody of the children, and when the parents were found four hours later, they told several conflicting stories about where they had been, finally explaining that they went to a friend's house to play video games because they were "bored."
It's obvious that the motel conditions, neglect of the children and parental behavior can all be blamed on video games. Rather than obtaining a quote about the fact that parents were living with the children in a motel room with vomit on the floor, the quote published from the husband was "When you play video games, you get focused on that." The parents are in Orient Road Jail, with no bail currently set.
Definitely no slanted opnions here, folks. None at all.
[Via Northeast News and Tribune - Thanks, Jonathan]
Contest:
3:40 PM on 05.05.2008
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...Ow that you for your capitalism. See what I did there?
I hate people
i thought it was customary...you know marking your territory.
maybe they did it so the kids could find their way back to the room.
OH NO THEY ARRESTED THE COMEDIAN EARTHQUAKE?!?! AW HELL NAW
Hey did you buy that new video simulator?
I own a lot of video simulators
I'm gonna go buy a video simulator
Though I don't think there was too much parenting actually going on, judging from their room conditions and the fact that they left their children to wander around a motel. They barely look suitable enough to work, much less be trusted to even handle a kid for a few days.
I hate how the media will blow up anything that has the even remotest chance of being video game related. The parents could have gone out to gamble all of their money away (if they even have any) and everyone would have scolded the parents for having a gambling addiction, not the casino or group of people they play with. But since they went out to 'play video games at a friends house', it's automatically the video game industries fault, not the fact that the parents probably dropped out at grade 8.
V I D E O G A M E
It's a funny word. You may be wondering what video game is. I know the first time I heard it, I was confused. Then I met Mr. Arcade. Mr. Arcade explained to me that, with the power of video game, I can dodge all sorts of blame for the mistakes I've made. Here are some examples:
Are you a bad parent who doesn't monitor their child's activities? You buy anything they want and pay no attention to the media they are consuming. Next thing you know they're waving a plastic gun around and dropping the f-bomb at the grocer and people are casting accusing glances in your direction - just shrug and -
VIDEOGAME
Are you a news channel? DO you need a story to grab the frightened attention of your geriatric audience and keep the fearfully glued to the TV waiting for the apocalypse? Don't look for real news just -
VIDEOGAME
Maybe you're an angry lawyer who enjoys praying on the stupidity of your target fear craved followers. You could go about making an honest living, but wheres the fun in that? Make up some facts, talk in a loud voice, be proud, be angry, be fear – just -
VIDEOGAME
Videogame, because of you, my life is so much better! I never have to face my own inadequacies!
Thank you videogame.
;)
SEE WHAT I DID THERE? NOT SO SEXY NOW, IS IT?
also, conflicting stories? playing videogames? more like getting faded as shit off some purple drank and playing madden 06 on the homies PS2. but you cant watch movies on it cause that shit is fucked up.
*sip*
wait am i talking about them or me? did i just type this out loud?
What do you mean? Every gaming news site on the internet covers these stories.
Hopefully this "controversy" will die down when the media changes their focus to the next celebrity crotch shot and/or rehab story.
Folks, have your local idiots spayed or neutered to help the human race from having any more of these unjust acts of ignorance.
Thank you.
no that's bruce bruce.