In some countries not getting hit at all as a punishment is almost unheard of. But this is crazy. Reminds me of that Canadian who ran away and died after his parents took away his 360 because he played too much Modern Warfare, only you know, funnier.

ROFL!
Can we just bring back birching? Now? Jeebus but some kids don't know they're bloody born, these days.
Civilisation has gone to hell in a handbasket with JATOs strapped to it since they "abolished" corporal punishment :(

I don't civilization has gone to hell.
It's just that the coverage of random retards doing random stuff is a whole lot better due to this thing, the netterint, or what it's called.

I don't like kids.

it is not healthy to not like yourself Leung.

one more 911 story to add to the list. Lets see we have , they didn't make the food the way i want, i want a date,there all sold out of the food i want,and nooooooooo my evil parents took my xbox away.
We could make a movie out of that list! welcome to 911 the movie!
Kids these days!
back in my day we used to rise undead minions to retake are video game systems back.
If that failed, we when with plan b.Burn them all with fire and more fire!

Technically I'm not one of THEM. I'm like, way cooler and well-dressed compared to the average drooling moron.

The officer should have red ringed that console right over that kid's fucking head. When I read the title I was expecting it to be an 8 year old* or something. Not someone who should by any reasonable standards be expected to demonstrate some level of maturity.
*Average age on Xbox Live.

It could have been worse. Could have called 999 to report the Moon! U_U

"Boy! Go get me a stick for which to beat you with!" That's how we kept 'em in line in my day!
Just kidding, I'm not that old. But seriously, whatever happened to discipline? I'm certainly not suggesting that people should engage in regular beatings of their children, but c'mon, this kid actually questioned whether or not his parents had the right to take away his toy!? That's a boy that has had a severe lack of appropriate beatings in his life.

I don't like kids... and I HATE "cool" kids ]:<.
Also - resorting to violence is not something I would approve. Seriously - if you want to teach a kid something, you should EXPLAIN your reasoning behind it. If a 15-year-old can show you that your reasoning is invalid - you'd better rethink it. Also - consider actually being wrong.

...if you really think about it, there are really no such thing as 'cool' kids... also, good way to teach some spoiled kid discipline: put them to work. And i mean, put them to really earn their money on which to life of. That would surely put things in perspective...
...either that, or the idiot would realize that robbing, or going rap-singer would be easier. Then he'd be shot dead at some point either way. Win-win situation!!1

You have to draw a line though, if the kid is young enough they they won't understand the reasoning. Once they're old enough though, reasoning is the best way to do it because otherwise they just turn into mindless authority obeying fools.

It happens more than you think. WOW, and online gaming in general, is a serious problem which is currnelty being evaluated for inclusion in the DSM I believe. An addiction is an addiction. You can be PSYCHOLOGICALLY addicted to *anything*, and as such, *anything* can have addictive qualities.
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Since all an MMO is in essence is a competitive chat room (IE, a chat room where avatars have comparable statistics which people can boast about) coupled with random rewards, it's not suprising that they are addictive. A randomly-generated reward *IS* the most addictive psychologically, and as such, these MMO companies can use the addictive aspects of human nature and combine them with a monthly fee to make MUCH more than they could be making real games.
I mean comeon, Modern Warfare 2 is the second most played game right now, and once you pay Bobby Kotick $100 and your soul, it's yours forever. WOW takes $15 a month, and only ranks one higher. The case for monthly subscriptions is bullshit. NO gaming company is actually investing that money in "servers and updates", and they CHARGE you for the "new content" they claim the fee goes towards in the form of expansions.
That's why GW, and especially DDO are doing it right, they are competing on their own merits, not by trying to artificially increase their revenue.
If an MMO didn't NEED to have the addictiveness factor, the genre could evolve, and the true MMO's could be released. Conventionally though, I doubt that will happen any time soon. I have yet to play an "MMO" that has a true "persistant online world", or however they say it. With WOW's income, it should be the best game ever created, and should have at LEAST 10-100 times as many MEANINGFUL updates as Team Fortress 2, a game that not long ago was on sale for $2.50, has had.
End rant.

Yes everything was better in the good old days. And it was all down to beating children. Why if it wasnt for such harsh treatment I expect we would have gone through two world wars and countless cicil unrests throughout europe by now........................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................. ................................................................................ oh wait