We know intense sessions of
Halo 3 tend to bring out the worst in the players susceptible to bouts of anger, racism, homophobia and mental ineptitude, but a
TCPalm news story still manages to surprise with its tale of a boy launching a melee attack on his own mother. According to the report, the parental units made the grievous error of informing their son that he had to say goodbye and goodnight to
Halo 3 for the evening. When the youth failed to comply, the parents removed the "aircard" (we had to
look that up) from the console, resulting in a disconnection from the internet and apparently, civilized behavior.
The report states that the youth responded by searching the house for the device, punching his mother and then locking himself up in his room. After the unimpressed parents rang the police and pointed deputies to the door, "the juvenile allegedly responded with profanity," presumably some variant of "GTFO noob deputards lol." In-between unlocking the door and finally slapping on the handcuffs, the youth managed to append one officer of the law to his dubious list of punched authority figures.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Silver R. Wolfe @ Nov 1st 2007 5:18PM
It's not the videogames, it's the Aircards that are to blame!
The1 @ Nov 1st 2007 6:00PM
I wish that was my kid. He would have never Meleed me, trust me.
Dan @ Nov 1st 2007 6:42PM
lmao... this game is 15+ here, why is this kid playing it?
Anticrawl @ Nov 1st 2007 9:49PM
Parents don't beat their kids enough these days.
James @ Nov 1st 2007 10:11PM
Anticrawl, if I could give you 20 plusses, I would.
Favorite shirt I spotted in NYC: "Beat the shit out of your kids -- God says it's OK."
Jimiisama @ Nov 1st 2007 10:14PM
The1: Fast Melee ftw
Anticrawl @ Nov 1st 2007 10:20PM
I was an evil little child but it wasn't bad parenting, most kids are little brats and some can't be controlled by normal means. You gotta punish your kids for doing wrong or they will own you, and it has to be something good. And since sinding me to my room wasn't really much of a punishment since we were poor and lived in the ghetto where it wasn't safe to go outside they whiped my ass. They made the most evil of kids into just a mild mannered smart-ass with their decent parenting. They didn't smother me or give me a curfew or stop me from doing things, let me learn on my own but when that wasn't working they stepped in and set me straight by whatever means worked.
In reality though the whips were more a psychological punishment than physical, of course I acted like they hurt so they would hit harder but the anticipation of it happening was terrifying as a kid heh. Especially when they did the "three strike" thing and kept reminding me that when I got to "three" I'd get 3 licks when we got home haha, now that was intimidating enough to straighten me out. Don't even actually have to hit your kids but you need to make em respect you. I think the hitting part is a good basic idea, as long as you don't do any real physical harm.
B1gC72 @ Nov 2nd 2007 12:00AM
thank you Dan. and somebody will try to blame the game for this when his parents shouldn't have bought it for him in the first place. that boy needs an ass whooping for real. i hate bad parents.
Gangsta Smurf @ Nov 2nd 2007 9:22AM
LOL HOLE IN ONE!
Ren @ Nov 1st 2007 5:18PM
Well, thats one less retard on Halo 3 to worry about.
dan stabbingworth @ Nov 1st 2007 5:25PM
1 down, 400,000 to go.
Anyone who is not skilled enough to crack a skill level of 25 should consider themselves extremely lucky because after that it's all angry 17 year olds who berate their team even if members are actually doing better than them. "Mute all" button: on.
Spartacus @ Nov 1st 2007 6:03PM
I think there's a bit of a curve to the rankings. I'm only a 21 currently, but I get teamed up with mainly high 20's to mid 30's due to me usually playing with my friend who is a 40. This is how I would break it down:
Spartacus @ Nov 1st 2007 6:06PM
Lol, joystiq ate the 2nd half of my post...
1-10 = Immature squeeky voiced punks
11-19 = Mixed bag
20-29 = Angry teens with big mouths and little teamwork
30-39 = Generally serious and mature players
40+ = Guys who don't like to lose, but who are usually civil
rv @ Nov 1st 2007 7:30PM
I ranked up from level 7 to 27 in double team in a span of maybe 10-15 games in 1 night. Seriously. I ranked up some more and now I am level 33, but that was less drastic than the 1 night 20 level increase. My teammate was also level 7 at the beginning of the night, but for some reason he only ranked up to 12. lol.
The point I am trying to make is that I think its easier to rank up on team double team if you are the mvp, which is easier to do since there are only 4 people.
Grey Fox @ Nov 2nd 2007 3:11AM
Amen. Spoiled brats are a waste of space.
merf1350 @ Nov 2nd 2007 9:31AM
Spartacus I think your table is a little skewed. I'm 27, generally a serious a mature player, but I haven't peaked over a 5 skill level. Course between work and a gf I only get to play around 10-20 hours a week. Skill level has nothing to do with "Immature squeaky voiced punks". Actually I would expect to fin most of them to be in the 15-30 range, as they have nothing to do all night and all weekend other than sit on their pimply, smelly, increasingly obese asses, and subject the rest of use to abstract humiliation and high pitched Mickey Mouse Club ranting. I really wish they would add an age verification to the online play so they deafen themselves instead of the rest of us. And I'm sorry if I come off harsh, but I don't know how many matches last night I had to listen to the whiny shit, and God you can not mute them fast enough. What's even worse is when they spend 5 min. screaming in the lobby before the match. God help all our eardrums.
Jeff @ Nov 1st 2007 5:21PM
When parents cant handle their children and have to resort to calling the cops, you know who's to blame. Hint: Not Halo 3.
James @ Nov 1st 2007 5:23PM
Hint: when a child hits his own mother chances are he's not one that can be easily controlled.
Ren @ Nov 1st 2007 5:23PM
The hippity hop music?
Zertoss @ Nov 1st 2007 5:25PM
Mom should've smacked the crap out of him. If I had ever punched my mom, I'd have been beaten within an inch of my life, and then my dad would've come home and finished me off.
BABALITY!
Jeff @ Nov 1st 2007 5:26PM
Getting into an argument about child-rearing on a gaming website, lawl. =P
Babies don't just pop out of the womb as parent-punchers (sadly). He must have had some serious (lack) of discipline growing up.
colin @ Nov 1st 2007 5:26PM
its those goddamn beatles and that elvis character. they're ruining america's youth.
ejordan @ Nov 1st 2007 5:26PM
Totally agree. Parents who can't control their kids are worse than owners who can't control their dogs.
It's ridiculous that parents think the police should be the authority in the home. That kid's got problems and so do his parents.
Long Bow @ Nov 1st 2007 5:41PM
I agree. Too many people that shouldn't be having kids are having kids. If you have to call the cops on your own child, because you can't control him/her, than odds are you don't deserve to have kids. It's your duty as a parent to enforce discipline, not the cops. That kid probably got tea bagged one too many times in Halo.
Sean @ Nov 1st 2007 5:41PM
Kids listen to the rap music.
Kids listen to the rap music.
What do you like to play?
Pokemon! Pokemon!
fawazr @ Nov 1st 2007 5:55PM
When I started smoking weed back in high school and getting mixed up with the wrong crowds, that wasn't my parents' fault--it was the fault of really good drugs and really easy girls. Blaming parents for a kid's awful actions isn't adequate.
Volt @ Nov 1st 2007 6:16PM
fawazr: Don't blame drugs and girls for your lack of self control.
gonk @ Nov 1st 2007 6:23PM
fawaz, your parents should've raised you to not be dumb enough to mix with the bad crowds in the first place
luckily, it sounds like you've grown out of that
fawazr @ Nov 1st 2007 7:37PM
"fawaz, your parents should've raised you to not be dumb enough to mix with the bad crowds in the first place"
Right... because clearly history has shown that the only ones that have succumbed to bouts of excess were simply 'dumb enough to mix with the wrong crowds.' Sometimes when I come to Joystiq I feel like I've fallen into a 50's sitcom. Because if you think that every troubled teen is the result of bad parentage or a lack of self control (which obviously comes natural to hormonal adolescents, of course) then you've succesfully retreated so far up your own rectum that you've begun to take desperate solace in your own concocted myths.
Long Bow @ Nov 1st 2007 8:28PM
"Right... because clearly history has shown that the only ones that have succumbed to bouts of excess were simply 'dumb enough to mix with the wrong crowds.' Sometimes when I come to Joystiq I feel like I've fallen into a 50's sitcom. Because if you think that every troubled teen is the result of bad parentage or a lack of self control (which obviously comes natural to hormonal adolescents, of course) then you've succesfully retreated so far up your own rectum that you've begun to take desperate solace in your own concocted myths."
But recent history has shown that spoiled brats that have no self control are products of bad parenting. Some children are beyond help, but the majority of snot nosed little goombas that think they're ADD and yell at their parents and attack them, are usually brought up the wrong way.
Nick @ Nov 1st 2007 11:43PM
@Sean: ...Kodak Film! LOL
Jake @ Nov 2nd 2007 8:31AM
He should have softened her up with a nade or the AR before meleeing her. N00b.
James @ Nov 1st 2007 5:21PM
What a knobhead.
colin @ Nov 1st 2007 5:25PM
*inserts derogatory comment about halo 3's fanbase but doesn't mean it
well now that that's out of the way ...
Kassu @ Nov 1st 2007 5:27PM
Call the cops for your own kid?
A lil bit o' spankin would have helped it.
Or selling his xbox on ebay, whichever suit's you best..
Marty @ Nov 1st 2007 6:34PM
Sell it? Screw that... If my kid ever does anything like this to me, I'll put my foot right through it right in front of him, just to show him that I mean business.
Geist @ Nov 1st 2007 10:22PM
Likewise. Smashy smashy.
lothar @ Nov 2nd 2007 5:12PM
Sell it FTW... Turning aggression on an inanimate object in front of a child that has not self control just sends the wrong message. Sell it after beating his puck ass down, for good measures I'd get rid of everything else in his room, TV, toys etc..
I have 2 step sons, they get routinely grounded from TV , videogames and going outside when they start slacking with their school work or decide to be assholes. They get play rights back eventually but trust me they would never try to test themselves against my wife even though their bigger than her.
danny. (fdf.) @ Nov 1st 2007 5:29PM
Sounds like the dad is spineless. I would have lost it. Then the news story could read "Son punches mother after Halo 3, Dad beats loser son with bat after playing TF2"
SugarDaddy @ Nov 2nd 2007 8:44AM
Dad? Is there any mention of a dad? Perhaps that's what the kid needs and the mother is letting the xbox be the dad.
danny. (fdf.) @ Nov 2nd 2007 9:48AM
the linked article refers to 'the parents'... assumed it wasn't two moms or he would have gotten hit back without a doubt
gonk @ Nov 1st 2007 5:29PM
was he on cocaine?
WiNG @ Nov 1st 2007 5:34PM
Yes didn't you read the article? It clearly states he was playing Halo 3 at the time of the incident.
exit stencil @ Nov 1st 2007 8:08PM
Halo 3 is a helluva drug. Huh huh, huh huh.
Marrvia @ Nov 1st 2007 5:32PM
I know this is kind of off topic, but why is Halo 3(and all the Halo games for that matter) rated M. Manhunt is rated M, Gears of War is rated M, and Halo seems very tame in comparison.
Anyway, goes to show you that a lot of parents ignore ratings.
beans @ Nov 1st 2007 5:37PM
because you're using weapons in the game and it simulates violence...I know, ghey
Sean @ Nov 1st 2007 5:37PM
It's rated M because sexual content involving a huge super-soldier and a hologram.
Marrvia @ Nov 1st 2007 5:50PM
Tons of games have guns and killing people and are rated T, like Call of Duty games for example. It must be the green alien blood.
Spartacus @ Nov 1st 2007 6:11PM
It's mainly due to the single player campaign's use of profanity and dialog.
Without that, Halo could be rated T, but then again I'm pretty sure Bungie and MS WANTED an M rating as statisically they sell better.
gonk @ Nov 1st 2007 6:29PM
maybe that's just because M games tend to be uncompromised and are better because they're aimed at a more critical audience.