Boston mom calls 911 over son's video game habit

[AsahinaKimi]

BOSTON (AP) — 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.

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Grand Theft Auto, that explains it.. :P
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2009-12-21-Video-game-911_N.htm

[msongs]

1. a bit late for her to start acting like a parent and adult, but better late then never nt

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[Mz Pip]

9. I seriously doubt

the kid is being mistaken for a girl. What decade are you stuck in/ The 50s maybe? But that's another thread.

Not defending this woman. Take the damn game away. Make it disappear! Poof! It's gone!

[Jkid]

3. I'm afraid it's old news. Unrecommend.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. UNREC!!!!!!

Have at it, like as if I posted it to get Recs!!!

[Fire1]

4. Teen-agers! Gotta luv em. Sounds like she was at her wits

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[seabeyond]

7. no. this is just the out we give them though, for them to behave this way.

no, this isnt about being a teenager. it is about parent that does not have a two way line of respect going with her son.

[Fire1]

11. Totally agree. n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. Take it away from him. Is it really that hard?

[HipChick]

8. FFS...how about being a parent and stop trying to be his friend..

My mother would have unplugged it,taken it away...I'd be lucky if it saw the light of day for the next week..

[Initech]

10. The first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Well to start with she should be fined for calling 911 for a non-emergency

I would hate to think someone else had to take a back burner to THAT call.
If this were my kid, I'd have taken the game away--thrown it away if I had to.
I would have gotten their attention.
If it had been my parents?
I'd have had my ass kicked between here and kingdom come.

[TorchTheWitch]

13. I'm stunned the police actually responded to the call

Boston police have nothing better to do?

[JVS]

14. Maybe if she had given him some motherfucking chocolate milk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GJ8nK0f7UI