Police have arrested a man for “forcing” his stepson to play GTA4, after the stress of playing the horrible game caused him to develop a neurological disorder.
According to police reports, the 28-year-old Nara prefecture nurse was living at home with the 9-year-old son of his 31-year-old wife, who was the child of her previous marriage.
He made the boy play GTA4 on the PS3 “2-3 times a week for 2-3 hours a time,” and the boy apparently complained of stomach aches, headaches and nausea to his mother, after which she separated from the man.
The next month the boy was diagnosed with a neurological disorder obtained as a result of the stress of the game, and the woman made a formal complaint against her husband, whom police arrested and charged with criminal coercion.
He denies the charges, saying “I did not force the boy to play.”
The wicked game featured “shootings and murders, blood and cruelty” and was only one of a number of 18+ titles the man “made” the boy play, according to media reports.
The case has been greeted with some scepticism online:
“Not GTA again…”
“What do you expect, this stuff always happens with children from previous marriages.”
“He was probably just playing it himself. Sounds like something to do with the circumstances of their marriage.”
“Honestly, if he did force the kid, whilst it may not have been a good influence I rather doubt he would be vomiting because of it.”
“He may have just been sick from the 3D.”
“He secretly played the game, got a bit motion sick, the mother pinned it on the game and used it to get out of the marriage? Sounds as plausible as forcing a kid to play GTA for some weird reason…”
“The game was probably just a pretext, it sounds like the pair did not have a happy marriage and that is more likely to cause him stress than a game.”
“Honestly, the mass media are deliberately twisting this to be the fault of the game, aren’t they?”
“What kind of sicko likes these games! No wonder they’d destroy the health of a 9-year-old forced to play them.”
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So yeah, heres what really happened.
1. Bitch gets dumped by fed up husband.
2. Bitch dupes new guy into marrying her.
3. Stress from being forced to be part of scamily overwhelms the kid.
4. Bitch uses kids condition as an excuse to take everything the guy owns.
all according to keikaku
tl note: keikaku means plan
tl note: keikaku mean plan in Chinipese
It seems they arrested the wrong person.
I'm thinking he made the kid play it Clockwork Orange style.
Way to make GTA IV seem bad and not the parent, fuck politics.
Politics are driven by parents who don't want to assume any responsibility: "think of the children", but don't do anything except try to find convenient scapegoats.
Not even "think of the children" because those damn japanese politicians are too lazy to care about physical children. It's more like "think of the 2d children"
I'd be vomiting and developing neural diseases too if I was forced to play such a vapid and shitty game.
~PC Master Race.
I know what you mean, I felt the same way after banging your mother.
You know, I know a lot of people joke about 13 year olds on sancom... but I already knew13 year olds would be all over this site. But 12 year olds on the other hand...
Oh sorry, i kinda messed her up bad, you should have waited about a week.
Fuck you Jelly, GTA IV was bad!
I'd say it was the best of the entire dull series... so not saying much still.
that's gta v
Why was it bad? I think it was pretty good
GTA IV was a terrible game with bad controls, ugly environments and lighting, obnoxious characters, atrocious music, side content that forces the player to stop playing the game and instead "watch", and less than half the content, freedom, and fun from previous games in the series. It didn't make the kid sick, but being forced to play it should be classified as torture.
But GTA IS a bad game, so why not?
There's nothing worser than GTA, probably.
Your grammerer is.
grammar
Your butt is on fire, it seems.
Go play your shitty GTA and cry in the toilet after that, if you don't like my post.
GTA: San Andreas will always be my most favorite GTA ever.
I didn't really like GTA SA, to me GTA2 will always be the best one in the franchise
San Andreas sucked.
So did your mom.
With a reply like that I'd assume... Amurican?
duno, imo gta:sa is best for all titles
that's what your mom told last night
"Hey Niko! It's your cousin! Let's go bowling!"
"Hey Cousin Niko! Let's go bowling!"
No NO! Don't make me play anymore Please!
*screaming*
So this kid most likely has mild to acute epilepsy (if the game really caused his issues) so they blame the software...
>2-3 times a week for 2-3 hours a time
Do you have any idea what kind of shit a lad can handle for "a few hours a week"?
He could rock climb, scuba, skydive, bungee jump. He could hang UPSIDE DOWN FROM CHAINS. But a young lad can't handle video games for a few hours a week?
She's a fucking manipulative fountain of bullshit - and bad at it. And I'm sure he's no better. Hooray for 3D!
So the couple having a shitty relationship isn't the cause of the son having a neurological disorder? I mean, that makes more sense.
...Wut?
GTA4? couldn't he afford GTA5?
Poor people always have dated tech and most of japanese are in fact poor.
The story happened in 2012 ...
of course the kids pissed
its not the latest gta V
cheap bastard
he deserves it for making the poor kid play the shitty game
Great.
Just what the media needs, more fuel to the game-hate propaganda.
In America:
Fathers ruin their son's lives by not spending any time with them.
In Japan:
(Step)Fathers "ruin their son's lives" by spending time with them.
I find the whole 'developed a mental illness!' thing and 'forcing him to play the game' hard to impossible to believe here.
The police are going to end up with eggs on their face if this man has even a WHIT of self-respect and 'challenge the authority' in him.
If this is the case, then everyone at Squeenix should be sentenced to death for flogging Final Fantasy after 7.
Forcing a child to play GTA is immoral and unethical.
I don't think that anyone has ever had to force a 9-year-old boy to play video games.
This is a new crappy generation... they've already made me feel sad and old pretty fast, for being in my 20s and all...
In an alternate universe--
"10 year old child arrested for forcing his 40 year old stepfather to play Pokemon, which caused him terrible head-aches and god-knows-how caused heart diseases, which resulted in his death after a few weeks in the hospital bed."
Cause, why the fuck not?
Actually, I think that more grownups than kids play Pokemon. The kids all play GTA, COD etc., because they THINK that's what grownups do. Only shows how much they still have to learn ... ;)
And THAT'S the main reason why this news story makes no sense to me...
Could have been worse, he could have forced the poor kid to play Final Fantasy 13.