In one of those stories that just makes you go "WTF", but unfortunately doesn't really seem so surprising these days, a 4-year old boy killed his father for not bringing him home a Playstation 3. The article doesn't make clear why the father was carrying a gun, but as he was undressing, the boy took the gun and shot him in the head. I just think that technology can drive people nuts at times, and the young are very vulnerable to this. Someone I work with told me that his son got frustrated with a video game he was playing, so he threw his DS on the ground and broke it. Frustration with games is a sensation I'm well familiar with, but I'd always been able to restrain the urge to throw my controller through the TV.
What I found most interesting is that this incident did not take place in the U.S. or another developed country, but in Saudi Arabia. It appears that the worst aspects of our culture have pervaded even fundie bulwarks like that country. And now, off to power up my Playstation 3 (yes, I'm being serious).
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