11-Year Old Engages in Police Pursuit After Playing Grand Theft Auto V

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Yesterday, an 11-year-old boy was caught driving on Ontario’s Highway 400 after a night of playing Grand Theft Auto V, the Ontario Provincial Police say. According to Sgt. Kerry Schmidt of the OPP’s Highway Safety Division, police received reports after 11p.m. Saturday of an erratic-moving vehicle just north of Toronto. “Drivers called it in thinking it was probably an impaired driver, because the vehicle was all over the highway,” Schmidt said in a video posted to the OPP’s Highway Safety Division Twitter page on Sunday.

The driver was heading northbound on Highway 400. Police say the driver exited at King Road, and then got back on the highway, this time going southbound. That’s when an OPP officer attempted to pull him over.

“The vehicle was first… going under the speed limit – like about half the speed limit,” Schmidt said. “As the officer tried to get out and talk to this driver, find out what was going on… the vehicle took off again.”

With the driver now speeding at over 120 km/h, a second officer arrived. The OPP were eventually able to box the car in and bring it to a rolling stop.

Police were shocked to find an 11-year-old boy behind the wheel.

“(He) had just been finishing playing Grand Theft Auto at home and wanted to find out what it was like driving a car,” Schmidt said.

According to Schmidt, the child’s parents were sleeping at the time of the stunt.

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LieutenantGazPosted:

oh **** you, blame everything in the world that takes the responsibility off you. "oh, are you stupid? it's not my negligible parenting that caused this! it's those damn gamez!"

die

MajPosted:

IMO The parent's are to blame

xxRider702xxPosted:

I didnt think I would live to hear a day where somebody said that they did something because of a game..

ZydrinPosted:

Not the games fault, raise your damn children better.

FibrilPosted:

Lol. I'd say this is a parent fail. Rated mature for a reason...

BarclayPosted:

Rip to that kids Xbox lol

Exist_Posted:

I'm glad nobody was injured but this is hilarious

iShanePosted:

Parents shouldn't own an automatic haha

extrememasters1Posted:

Dab-
Earn With situations like this you have to blame the parents for not teaching their kids from right and wrong, I can't imagine playing GTA had anything to do with this.


Lets be perfectly honest he shouldn't even be playing this game therefore its his parents fault!


Exactly but also its perfectly fine for a 11 year old to play gta as long as the parents pay attention to the kid and teach them not to do or say the stuff in the game the parents need to pay more attention to him and maybe revoke his game for a bit

nober555Posted:

Dab-
Earn With situations like this you have to blame the parents for not teaching their kids from right and wrong, I can't imagine playing GTA had anything to do with this.


Lets be perfectly honest he shouldn't even be playing this game therefore its his parents fault!


I completely agree, the parents should be held solely responsible. So many parents use video games as a scapegoat to get out of having to deal with their kids.
I work at a video game store and I see this happening all the time. Parent: "Oh he only plays it to drive around, he doesn't kill people or go into the strip club." or "He's played it at his friends before, it's not that bad of a game."

I do have to say video game companies don't care, because a lot of games are marketed towards kids now. Just look at call of duty, how that game has been marketed.


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