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 * The “//__Real__”// Impact Video Games Make On **** America **

Original story from the Washington Post: [|Boy, 6, misses bus, takes mom's car instead]

I had found this story on a [|personal blog by Dianesu on Oprah.com], which isn't always said to be true. From there I traced the story back to its original article written in the [|well believed, Washington Post]. I choose this article for my assignment, because I found the title to be absolutely hilarious. Along with that the story seemed to be thought of as a miracle, a child who drove himself more than ten miles to school, because of what he learned from [|Grand Thief Auto]. I also choose this article, because along with the humor I found some concern for the boy and his safety.

media type="youtube" key="YyLqBNO-O2g" height="185" width="218" align="right"Because //Washington post// has such great credibility there seemed to be no political bias in the article. Although the article did seem to have a bit of a tone against the parents of the child, regarding their parental responsibilities for watching the boy. Also, the tone for the story itself is thought of as funny. Having a child endanger himself by driving to school, because of what he learned from an adult rated video game is not a laughing matter. With that said [|the writer] then changes the tone to more of an offensive manner towards the people of this small Virginia town, where this incident took place. [|The writer] explains how after driving ten miles and passing two stop lights, only two people had been reported of calling the police on the six-year-old boy.

Over all the entire story was quite humorous. The boy did eventually crash. Luckily it was just the back corner of the car that was hit when running into a utility pole, about a mile and a half away from his school. Determined not to miss breakfast and P.E. the boy proceeded to walk to school. Finally he was found walking towards school by the sheriff, with just a small bump on his head.

For the most part it was a happy ending. The boy did not miss breakfast, and no one managed to get hurt. Unfortunately for his neglecting parents, they both were arrested and charged with [|felony child endangerment.]