<![CDATA[Kotaku: scapegoats]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: scapegoats]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/scapegoats http://kotaku.com/tag/scapegoats <![CDATA[ Games Make You Drive Like an Idiot ]]> Three teens in New Zealand died on Christmas Eve when they led the police on a high speed chase which ended with a crash into a pine tree and a roll down a gully. Now the New Zealand Herald reports that a national transport spokesperson is blaming bad teen driving on video games.

National's transport spokesman Maurice Williamson says today's young people think they are bullet-proof. He blames Playstations and X-boxes for making teens think they can drive stupidly and just push the reset button if anything goes wrong.

Not sure I buy his conclusion there. I thought scientists had conclusively proven that stupid teen driving is caused almost exclusively by being stupid and a teenager. I'm not even seeing any proof to indicate that these kids even owned video game systems. I mean hell, if they did they'd be home playing, not leading the police on a 190KPH chase through downtown Auckland. I suppose something has to be a scapegoat in situation like this. It's not PC to just call the kids retarded and be done with it. Michael Fahey

Computer games blamed for teen road deaths [NZHerald.co.nz via Destructoid]
]]> Kotaku-224630 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:40:06 MST Mike Fahey http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224630&view=rss&microfeed=true