Gamer takes life after being told not to play games
May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Culture, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 by Jeff Baker
I don’t know about you guys but I remember having my parents turn off my SNES when I refused to stop playing Zelda: A Link to the Past. Sure I was pissed, but I never did anything as close to this 12 year old from Bangkok, Thailand.
As the story goes, the 12 year old was banned from playing video games because his parents suspected he was addicted. Obviously discourged the boy proceeded to go to school the following day, went to the 6th floor of the building and jumped thus ending his life.
What’s even worse Thailand’s Ministry of Health blamed it almost entirely on his parents saying that they should have handled the child’s addiction much differently.
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