Kids say the perpexingest things

[Rogerborg]

5 year old, about to go out in the car: "Mummy, wait, I need to get something." Pause. Reappears with toy gun. "OK, I'm ready to do my drive bys now."

Hahahahaa, that's just ador- wait, what?

The parents can't see any problem with their kids (8 and 5) playing "drive by", or for that matter with them playing / watching Auto Homicide 3 or whatever they picked it up from.

Incidentally, both parents are coppers.

I'm genuinely not sure whether I should be shrugging and saying "No different to us playing cowboys and indians, Japs and commandos, cops and robbers", or whether coppers not caring that their kids are growing up idolising gang bangers is a sign that the End Days are upon us.

Go.
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[Paxovasa]

You're reading too much into it.
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[Kris]

My ten year old cousin couldn't wait to tell me how many prostitutes he'd slept with - and subsequently murdered on GTA.

If that doesn't disturb you then nothing will.


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[Frost]

It's an 18 rated game. It pisses me off when parents blame games like GTA for things when they're the ones who fucking bought it! It's like going out of your way to buy your kid a gun, them when he shoots someone, blaming the gun!

[Gazz]

As long as they are playing 'drive-by' with Police cars then I see no problems here.

[Nai]

Totally agree with Frost. Games are now subject to the same laws as films now with age ratings. If someones pissy about a kid being effected by a 18 rated game they should also be being pissy about every film ever made that had a 15/18 certificate too.

Blame the parents / person that got the kid the game. Not the game itself.

[Frost]

To be honest i played 18 rated games when i was well under 18, and thought he realism and graphics were pants back then to what they are now i don't think it makes any difference. Shooting a computer character with a pretend gun is no more likely to make you want to go on a rampage than watching a horror movie is to make you a serial killer.
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Some people are just assholes, some kids are little assholes. In times gone by parents had more contact with their kids and as a result knew what they were like and if they cared they tried to make them grow up to be decent people. Kids these days are, and are encouraged to be more independent at a younger age. They don't want their parents in their lives and their parents usually have their own business to worry about. So when the kid becomes a little shit the parents don't notice, then they grow up into big shits and people start looking for things to blame. We're all to blame but that's the hardest thing to admit or do anything about so in true human fashion we'll just pretend it's not a valid option
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[oldpink]

as long as the parents don't encourage them to take it up as a career I don't see a problem
my kids played with plastic BB guns as kids now they very rarely want to go shooting
or take any interest in the guns we have in the house
they also played "rape murder rob" games as kids and still do
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[Rogerborg]

Mmm, sorry, I think I caught a little Filthy Liberal bug there. For the vast majority of human history, kids have been brought up to be bloodthirsty little mindless murder-thugs. Dulce et decorum est, and all that. It's only in the last, what, 40 years or so that we've got this weird idea that we should give peace a chance, and raised a generation of surrender monkeys.

In my defence, it's not my fault, I was psychologically abused as a kid. My mother... she was... she was a hippy. There, I said it. Please don't hate me.
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[Ariel Badger]

I see a lot of glorification of gun culture amongst kids, they think it is glamorous. I have seen the reality when I lived in Zimbabwe, it is not.
A cop allowing is kid to behave like that is stupid if not criminal. Point a gun out of a car where I live and you could well get rained on .
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[unitynotsocri...]

my kids an ex played postal 2,fallout 3.the lad played vice city when he was 8,he did'nt bother with the prozzie killing,just did the tasks and bought up the town,his fav veichle was the scooter,the scrambler and a shopping trolly mod. he learnt that the ice cream man sells smack,that big bizz is corrupt,that adults do coke and crims launder money through nightclubs what's not to like,better education than the school.
years ago i went into the early learning centre in Crewe for two blaster water pistols for the then,6 and 4 year old girls.the tree huggy hippy explained that they don't do guns,but have a water soaker,which was basically a pushbike pump.ten minutes later i got two big blasters from the market.they are now grown up and hav'nt killed anyone yet.
Fuck banning computer games,except Petz,if you want to moan about guns why don't you take on hollywood or uncle toms like Eminem and all those dancing sellout rap mintrels.
So how many people have been killed because of pc copycat killings?My daughters used to wall up husbands and set clowns alight with fireworks while playing the sims aged 8.
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[unitynotsocri...]

hav'nt lived there for 12 years now,could'nt go back though as i can't speak Polish.
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[The Artist]

[unitynotsocri...]

Hate to eat my hat,i.e. my previous post but read in the paper today that a sailor has been convicted of killing an offficer on a nuclear sub.The press reports say he was playing GTA a lot!!!,perhaps ban these nasty video games on submarines!!!
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[Skudd]

It is more the fact he was in a submarine than any games they play. And he looks like Warped.
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[Rogerborg]

Insightful.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/20/article-0-0DFBDAAC00000578-854_233x423.jpg

I wouldn't have handed that mental a spoon, let alone an SA80. Sounds like it jammed after 6 or 7 shots, of which 4 missed. So it's true that they've improved it a lot.
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[GhostRider]

[Rogerborg]