[SGI News] Mom Calls 911 on Son for Playing Video Games

[SGI]

"It’s game over for a 14-year-old Roxbury boy, whose overwhelmed mother was so exasperated with his incessant video game playing that she called the cops on him.

The final straw for Angela Mejia snapped at 2:30 a.m. Saturday when, “I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the light on in his bedroom,” hours after she had told him to go to sleep.

“Sometimes I want to run away, too,” Mejia said, breaking down in tears in her immaculate apartment. “I have support from my church, but I’m alone. I want to help my son, but I can’t find a way.”

Mejia is among thousands of parents struggling with today’s video-game obsessed youth. The Entertainment Software Association reports the popularity of video games is skyrocketing, with 42 percent of adults intending to give, or hoping to find one in their Christmas stocking this week.

Mejia’s son - one of four children the 49-year-old is raising alone - was playing “Grand Theft Auto,” an exceedingly violent video in which the gamer assumes the role of ladder-climbing criminal.

An argument ensued as Mejia unplugged her son’s PlayStation. Then, this mad-as-hell mother dialed 911. Police responded and managed to talk the boy into shutting off the game and going to sleep.

“They (police) were just like, ‘Chill out. Go to bed,’ ” the boy told the Herald.

Mejia said she approves of athletic-themed videos, but as for “Grand Theft Auto,” she said, “I would never buy that kind of video. No way. I called (police) because if you don’t respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?”

Mejia, a cafeteria cashier at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jamaica Plain, said the two officers who responded “were surprised” there was more involved than putting the lid on a simmering family feud."

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I love crazy over the top 911 calls. If only there was a website that kept copies of news articles of the one that make it on the news. There are some real classics out there. Well.... I can only dream.

[Señor Nobody]

That's so stupid I actually had to stop and reread it.

[Eris]

Wasn't there some kid who tried to hire a hitman to murder his grandaprents for not letting him play video games a few years back? I think this is the flip side of that coin.

[-Batman-]

"If you don' respect your mother what are you going to do in life?"

Well GEE MOM! It's kind of hard to respect a complete and total psychopath who wastes the local police departments time and resources on something stupid when a real emergency could be tended to someplace else.

[Capernicus]

I'm sympathetic for the mother.

[Galactic Pretty Boy]

Ridiculous! The embarrassment of this is going to follow that poor kid forever, that sucks.

[TheSplundPopper]

Is it quite an old story? Grand Theft Auto and PlayStation are from the 90s. Although I still play my Megadrive so maybe they just kept them like I kept my Megadrive.

[.Tatty.]

Nice overreaction there.

Besides Grand Theft Auto is a poor poor game as it is, that's license enough to call the police anyhow.

Go get him that Bible Gun game shooting thing(that Todd and Rod Flanders were playing) from the Simpsons. :/

[Alphabet]

The child is going to encounter violent video games in his life whether the mother likes it or not. There's really no point in avoiding it. You can still limit on how much he plays it though.
ooshy ooshy ooshy

[-Batman-]

Is it quite an old story? Grand Theft Auto and PlayStation are from the 90s. Although I still play my Megadrive so maybe they just kept them like I kept my Megadrive.

...Grand Theft Auto..4?
Playstation...3?

Juuuust saying.

[Yuuki Kurosu]

Ohh woww.
She overreacted a tinyy bit.. lol

I can understand her being quite stressed out though,
they did say she's a single parent raising 4 kids, but even so.

[Ryuuzaki HD]

"Hello 911? I'm too stupid to parent, can you please send someone to do it for me?"

Do us all a favor, don't have anymore kids. Your not fit to be a parent.

These comments pretty much sum this up for me.

[Robin Sena]

The mum's daft.

[Diocletian]

The mom had the right idea, she just did the wrong thing. It's pissing me off that all kids want to do nowadays is play video games from the morning 'til night. If you play video games longer than 3 or so hours, you gotta get a new hobby.

[Hideki Motosuwa.]

Thank God my mom isn't that crazy. Video games, for parents, you can't live with them. For kids, teens, and some adults, you can't live without them. If I played video games until 2:30 am on a Saturday morning, nobody would care, since I'm real quiet and my parents are usually heavy sleepers anyways So...everyone wins! xD

[Sr Machinehead]

There are so many things wrong with that moms reasoning i don't know where to start but lets try this. would she rather her son be in the house playing video games all day or doing drugs/hanging around with the wrong crowd?

[Diocletian]

There are so many things wrong with that moms reasoning i don't know where to start but lets try this. would she rather her son be in the house playing video games all day or doing drugs/hanging around with the wrong crowd?

Neither choice is any better. 2:30 a.m. Even kids doing drugs are asleep at that time. If the kid wouldn't even get off at that hour, something is wrong with him.

[Sr Machinehead]

but the best things happen late at night. if he can learn to handle that kind of sleep he is one step closer to late night cram sessions for school finals. consider it training. besides I'd rather a kid stay at home than be shot out on the street.

[Khanxay]

Oh, come on. At fourteen, staying up till two or three Saturday morning is normal.

[Buruku]

Beat the child. Destroy his games. Why do parents suck now'days? Or maybe I just had a crazy mom, but she sure as heck didn't need to resort to outside sources to control her kids.

Also, wth is up with parents and the "I don't want my kid playing this game, wah wah" BUT IT'S IN YOUR HOUSE.

Step one: Obtain disc
Step two: Snap disc in half

My mom took a cartridge game, brought it outside, and proceeded to run it over with her car. THAT IS HOW THINGS GET DONE.

[Sanosuke23]

If it weren't for the fact that she is clearly mentally unstable after attempting to raise four children on her own, I would have been mad at the cops for not arresting her for making wasteful calls to 911.

My mother would simply unplug/remove whatever I was doing, no matter what I was in the middle of, if she caught me awake after I should have been. I don't understand why being a hardcase is so difficult for these people.

[Sr Machinehead]

i dunno. really raise your hand to 'em and CPS isn't a matter because that kid doesn't want to go to a group home do they? I think that mom should learn to take authority.

[OminousCloud]

Psh at least play a more interesting game >_>

[Sr Machinehead]

Hey everyone has to start somewhere. i started with SNES so i'm good but him he might of started with cheap games.

[Stripes]

Wow, that mom's truly irritating. I wonder how those four children are resisting her. She must be like why did you do this, why did you do that... ughh.....

I believe it wasn't that kid's fault. I mean she could have just explained him why it was wrong. She could have said that getting sleep deprived can affect his health or anything she needed but calling the cops is far tooooooo much. Poor kid!

Now when he'll go to school, he will hear something like, "Your mom called the cops?" or something like, "Wow, your mommy is too stern.." or this, "hahahahahhaha, he's that weird boy, hahahaha."

Just think when he'll grow he'll tell his children that once his mommy called the cops for he was playing video game...loool...I believe it is bit tooooo stern!!!