Eleven-year-old boy finds bag of meth inside used copy of GTA V from GameStop

[Cycloid Torus]

Unless of course, you were being facetious, then by all means, ignore this post.

Wish I could claim being facetious...best I can hope for is 'fractious'? Honest, first look I thought it was one of the little dryer things which say "DO NOT EAT THIS".

 

[MannerMauler]

Aren't we over that "violent games cause violence" bullshit already?

Well, why not? They just indicted some frat boys for involuntary manslaughter by beer & hazing. Allowing someone to lay dying for half a day, could be categorized as lack of empathy bordering on sociopathy.

Violence is resident in a huge portion of hip-hop, as well as TV, movies, and video games, which all have copious of it.

It's hard to imagine that much violence not having behavioral consequences. It's easy for a civilized, properly socialized, and educated person, to keep the boundaries of real life and imaginary violence compartmentalized. But for those of different, more turbulent backgrounds, I expect it can all run together.

We, as unique individuals, make the appalling mistake of assuming all others approach life with our exact set of individual values, beliefs, social limits, and outlook. But, it just ain't so.

I'm not sure any of that is germane to this story. It has "hoax" written all over it. To me it reads like mom wants to get rich suing Game Stop, plain & simple.

Dang, you're being pretty dang philological, capt!

Before reading on, please not that I don't have a Ph.D. in physiology or anything of the like, this is all information I have gathered over the years and my own personal opinion.

A lot of it depends on the parents, peers, and the environment they're in. However, the kid has a big part in this too. It can have stuff to do with the kid that the parents may not know anything about to any fault of their own. These things have a tendency to hide deep in a child's mind.

John Doe Jr can go from being the most level headed, mature, sane, nicest kid in the whole school to being a total jerk and gang member who fantasizes about shooting their teacher who gave them a bad. grade Kids are good at hiding things like being bullied or upset about losing a good friend or family member til it hits the boiling points and explodes like an atom bomb. You could be an amazing parent and have the perfect mix between freedom and boundaries and discipline your child in the best way possible for you and the kid and still not know that something is upsetting him/her because they're so good at hiding it.

Most people don't know, don't care, or just plainly don't believe this, but kids are incredibly smart. This is a proven fact. Their brain is still soft and moldable. Their brain will soak up any information, good or bad. Give a ten-year-old and thirty-year-old ten years of training in a task in which both of them are equally good or bad at. after the ten years, the now twenty-year-old kid will be much, MUCH better than the adult that is now forty. Children are much better at adults at forming new neural pathways in their brains.

The kid may have even bought it himself and have no knowledge of it because of multiple personality disorder brought about by an abusive relative or any other type of severe trauma.

 

[MannerMauler]

Also, Capt, you were pretty inactive for a while, where were you?

 

[captaincranky]

Wish I could claim being facetious...best I can hope for is 'fractious'? Honest, first look I thought it was one of the little dryer things which say "DO NOT EAT THIS".

Much to my embarrassment, chagrin, and annoyance, I live in a place where a person is perhaps unavoidably, able to find those little baggies laying on the ground. It used to be crack "vials", but now, the heroine is packed in those little envelopes in "bundles". A bundle is a hundred "hits", which can be still easily concealed on one's person.

So, if you really didn't recognize that drug baggie, you should probably consider yourself fortunate, and not "naive".

 

[captaincranky]

Also, Capt, you were pretty inactive for a while, where were you?

Yes, and it was a very peaceful sabbatical. I think I may have been suffering from "acute far left political views overdose", but I can't say for sure.

Moving on, I gave you a summary "like" on your prior post, as it's always enjoyable to hear what someone as long winded as myself, has to say.

If I may, I'd like to add a few points to the discussion.

1: Having lived through it sometime in the middle ages, I can categorically state, "puberty is a b!tch"!

2: The entertainment industry has become quite a bit more adept at portraying ultra-violence realistically.

3: Most violent themes conceptually place it incumbent upon the righteous but oppressed, to use massive amounts of violence in the effort toward good triumphing over evil. The message is, "might makes right", but only the good should be allowed to wield conquering power. Well, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", and we can't really have it both ways, now can we?

As antithesis to your absolution of guilt from parents with regard to them not being responsible for how a child turns out, I give you this turd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un

A 3rd (minimum) generation dictator, overly pampered,and raised to believe his power is absolute, along with a well nurtured and even encouraged desire to rule the world, has resulted in a true sociopath with paranoid delusions of godhood. And yes, it's absolutely the parents fault!

Going back to topic, I'm of the opinion mom planted the drugs in the game, for future financial gain via litigation.

If that isn't the case, then Game Stop has a nationwide network of the worst, most vengeful, dissatisfied employees, which they need to purge in a big, big, hurry.

 

[MannerMauler]

Yes, and it was a very peaceful sabbatical. I think I may have been suffering from "acute far left political views overdose", but I can't say for sure.

Moving on, I gave you a summary "like" on your prior post, as it's always enjoyable to hear what someone as long winded as myself, has to say.

If I may, I'd like to add a few points to the discussion.

1: Having lived through it sometime in the middle ages, I can categorically state, "puberty is a b!tch"!

2: The entertainment industry has become quite a bit more adept at portraying ultra-violence realistically.

3: Most violent themes conceptually place it incumbent upon the righteous but oppressed, to use massive amounts of violence in the effort toward good triumphing over evil. The message is, "might makes right", but only the good should be allowed to wield conquering power. Well, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", and we can't really have it both ways, now can we?

As antithesis to your absolution of guilt from parents with regard to them not being responsible for how a child turns out, I give you this turd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un

A 3rd (minimum) generation dictator, overly pampered,and raised to believe his power is absolute, along with a well nurtured and even encouraged desire to rule the world, has resulted in a true sociopath with paranoid delusions of godhood. And yes, it's absolutely the parents fault!

Going back to topic, I'm of the opinion mom planted the drugs in the game, for future financial gain via litigation.

If that isn't the case, then Game Stop has a nationwide network of the worst, most vengeful, dissatisfied employees, which they need to purge in a big, big, hurry.

How big of a reply I'm willing to post depends on how much time I have, how much I care about said topic, and my mood.

Plenty of good points raised. I failed to clarify that while it isn't always the parent's fault, in this day and age, it usually is.

 

[dragonherder]

I'm a little curious as to why the mother knows what meth looks like.

 

[cliffordcooley]

The mother may not have known until after calling the authorities.

A police report filed with the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office and obtained by Kotaku states that the field test on the substance came up positive for methamphetamine.

And besides, just because someone is educated on drugs doesn't make them a user.