Boston mom calls 911 over over son's video game habit

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Boston mom calls 911 over over son's video game habit

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BOSTON — Police say a frustrated Boston woman called 911 to say she couldn't get her 14-year-old son to stop playing video games and go to sleep. Police spokesman Officer Joe Zanoli said Monday the mother called for help around 2:30 a.m. Saturday to say that the teenager also walked around the house and turned on all the lights.

Two officers who responded to the house persuaded the child to obey his mother.

Zanoli says the mother's 911 call over video game obsession "was a little unusual, but by no means is it surprising — especially in today's day and age when these kids play video games and computer games."

The Boston Herald first reported the 911 call, saying the boy was playing the popular "Grand Theft Auto" game.

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Unplug the TV or computer and lock it up.

Jesus god, it's not that hard to figure out. You're the parent. You pay the bills. You make the rules.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Wire cutters are your friend !!!

[Hello_Kitty]

7. When I broke rules the TV and phone were gone for at least a week.

I sure as shit wouldn't refused to stop playing a game when my parents told me.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. One of my daughters had a bad case of telephoneits. Then one day the phone in her room broke.

She was sorely pressed about it. It was a necessity for her as a teenager to have a phone in her room so she could talk to her friends privately. It was clearly a matter of life and death, so I said I would look at it later. I promptly left on a business trip. Her mom said it was hilarious. She swapped phones, she opened the jack to check the wires. She got instructions on how to wire the jack. What she did not do is trace the wire to the next jack, where I had disconnected it.

I got home a week later and it turns out she was actually still alive, though her phone habits were severely repressed. I never fixed the line until we moved.

[Wildewolfe]

6. Depends on the kid

Some, particularly with ODD at 14/15 or older can be violent bigger than the parents and have no restraint (it hasn't developed yet) against acts of violence and sometimes never will, where the parents have an instinctive desire to protect and defend the child. They are without exception (in my experience at least), liars, theives, self centered and do not care about anything or anyone except themselves and if you disagree you've been fooled and they are a good actor/actress. The laws (and I have gone through this) are stacked against the parents receiving any kind of assistance. Basically, you have to prosecute your own kid (and do it in district court not city) and sometime repeatedly, before services and help finally starts to trickle in for a troubled gift from god. (calling the cops and prosecuting was advise from the service providers btw... it allows them to get involved... at least here)

It's not always so easy.

[Hello_Kitty]

9. Of course there are exceptions.

However, a lot of parents nowadays are coddling their children to an unbelievable degree and refuse to discipline them.

Sort of unrelated but maybe not: I know several people who have children ranging in age from 10 to mid-20s. None of the kids have chores. None of them.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Bust the little bugger, then tatoo his keester." - Republicons for Fascism

"He's the kind of deviant little pissant kid who will grow up to tattle on responsible family values republicons having polite wide-stance diaper sex with hookers in public bathrooms. The kid needs 'The Cure." So sic the cops on him now, and then pound the bejabbers out of his backside with a hairbrush. It's for his own good. He will thank you later. Grrrr."

- Family Values Republicons for Fascism:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[HipChick]

4. why do people expect the police to parent their kids..

[Dappleganger]

8. At 14 her kid could be 6' tall.

Our oldest son was at that age. Than again, he's had a healthy fear of Mom established in him since he was two years old and figured out that she doesn't fall for his shit, no matter how long or loud he whines. He's now 6'3" and knows that I hold the keys to his electronic future in this home. ;o)

[LiberalFighter]

5. How about run a strong magnet over the video?

[YOY]

10. As a lifetime gamer I am amazed at this woman.

No flipping control...don't want your kid playing? Don't buy it. No game plays better than the one you bought with your own cash. Once he turns 16 let him buy his own.

Nothing worse than a 14 year old gamer anyways. They call everyone "fags" and have no concept of team play.

[surrealAmerican]

11. Sounds like she stopped being a parent years ago, ...

... and now she expects the police to do the parenting. It doesn't sound like that kid has a bright future ahead of him.

[Supply Side Jesus]

12. POLICE STATE!!!!!!

:dunce:

[enlightenment]

13. May I call 911 and report the overwhelming level of

stupidity that is destroying civilization? I consider that a real emergency. This woman should have been cited and fined for wasting community resources.