Ecstasy Pills Found In GTA IV Xbox 360 Game
Needless to say I’m not really very shocked, but Richard Thornhill found 4 ecstasy pills under the front cover in his second-hand copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, which he bought from Gamestation in Cheltenham, England.
Mr Thornhill said: “What made me feel the most distraught was the fact we let our 12-year-old play the game”… you know, that makes me sick as well… a 12 year old playing GTA IV? That kinda seems a little young. Don’t get me wrong, I love the GTA series, but the game is rated “18″ here in the UK, that’s actually worse than taking a 12-year-old to an NC-17 movie in the states. The fact is that Rockstar Games, the developer of GTA series, has to pass out free drugs to the kids so that they’ll play their games. 
The local Gamestation manager invited them to hand the drugs over to the company so they could destroy them and also points out that they have rigorous procedures for accepting pre-owned titles and checking them before they are put back on sale… [just not for common street drugs apparently]…
Is the video game rating system so difficult to understand that parents can’t read them or do they just not care? How early would you let your kids play GTA or not? Why or why not? [via BBC]
I let my son play at 16, though I was there to discuss it with him and made sure he was mature enough to handle playing it.
Yeah, I can imagine how that conversation went:
Mr. Thornhill: Yeah, so I found these pills in a copy of GTA4…
Gamestation Employee: Oh! Geez! Uh, yeah, why don’t you bring those pills back here and we’ll, like, destroy them for you… yeah… kthnxbye.
My fave part of this story. “The local Gamestation manager invited them to hand the drugs over to the company so they could destroy them…” Uh yeah, if destroy=eat and groove out.
Someone, somewhere is reading this and shouting “f*ckin’ hell, that’s where I put them – it seemed like such a good idea at 4am”
Remember kids, drugs lead to short term memory loss. Like where you stashed the buggers.
Oh come on! Thats like finding a $20 bill in your jacket you didn’t know you had…BONUS!