A British man was stunned after buying two second hand Grand Theft Auto games and discovering some free ecstasy tablets wrapped in plastic and slotted into the one of the game's manuals. For some reason, 34-year-old Richard Thornhill was not pleased with his gift, instead whining about "consequences" or something, whatever those are.
"When I opened the box up, the cling film wrap fell out," he said, as Pete Doherty wishes he came up with the same excuse. "I could not believe it. I have two children and my son plays Xbox all the time. He could easily have opened the box and found them.
"I dread to think what the consequences would have been if he had. He is only 12. He could have died. It was a pre-used game, but that should not make a difference. My wife is beside herself over this because she keeps thinking about what could have happened and so do I."
The game was purchased from a branch of GameStation in Gloucester. The retailer and local police are now investigating the case. Meanwhile, somebody who recently traded in some games is at a rave, glowsticks in hand, kicking himself.
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8:20 AM on 04.09.2009
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I'm not going down for this.
...no. As far as I know that isn't illegal, nor should it be provided the parents are responsible enough to make those kind of decisions for their kid.
And J03yyz has a good point, it'd take a right retarded kid to actually take the pills.
It also wasn't uncommon to find urine soaked or mould covered manuals.
Good times. I miss those days.
God knows what else slipped through unnoticed. People are disgusting.
Is it just my imagination or did those parents just admit that their son is an idiot?
I don't know of any normally functioning 12 year-old who would pop mysterious pills bundled with a used video game. The kid is old enough to know that that would be a horrible fucking idea.
I remember finding used heroin needles as a kid, but I was smart enough not to touch them. So, I'm sure any normal kid would have just trashed the baggy.
FTW
Used AND bloody........and there were 2 of them!
I've heard employees mention they often find a few curly black hairs hidden amongst the pages of used game manuals but that shit makes me feel a bit nauseous, and I've been hanging out in the podcastle forums.
WTF does that mean. It was stated they were used games but pre-used?
Its cause the mitsubishi logo was on the XTC pills and Its quite common among manufacturers to put some kind of logo on the pills cause they think its trendy...
There are Playboy,xbox 360, and many other pills with logo's on the streets...so I'm guessing the dad probably looked around on the internet..
*gurns*
Also, wouldn't pre-used mean new o_O
On a side note what kind of retard just takes pills that happen to fall out of game cases or any cases for that matter :\. I think if your letting your soon play games such as GTA he might have enough common sense not to take them. Or at least a sensible dosage.
It seems like the father is blaming Gamestation for planting the esctasy, but it wouldn't be there fault, they only have to check the state of the disk when they get trade ins. It seems to be everyones fault but his own cause hes reaching for a person to blame for something which could have happened but didn't.
Was that the collectors edition or something?
Infact, I think I know the kid who probably owned that game before hand, hes always at raves.
Great line, Jim. ;O)
Murdered hookers, anyone?