Well at least they blamed the parents and not the game. But first of all what the hell is a 6 year old doing playing GTA? My kids almost 6 and I wouldn't let him play GTA.

Misleading title is misleading.

He obviously didn't get to school, seeing as he crashed.

If the game gets blamed for this, then that'll be pathetic.

What the hell kind of parents give their SIX YEAR OLD GTA?

Lets hope the local authorities give them a royal bitch slapping.

No six year old should play GTA . I also wouldn't expect a little kid like that to be that dedicated to school.

How the hell can a 6 year old even reach the pedals

Epic Phail! @Krunal: I think he might have used stilts of a sort, high heels maybe?

I lol'd when I saw this. Blame the parents. =P

Shocking really, if the traffic around his neigbourhood was dense, there could have been a pile up, and may have resulted in a few deaths. Thank god he crashed before he could do any real damage is all I can say.

This would never have happened in the UK.

He would have had to drive a manual instead of an automatic over here.

Your kidding right? It's not like parents are going to guard the car keys 24/7. Like most people, the keys typically just sit on the bench or on a holder or something. Makes it pretty easy for a kid to get them while his parents aren't looking. The article said his mother was sleeping and they didn't mention what his father was doing. By now they were probably used to the kid getting on the bus regularly and perhaps even getting breakfast himself or something so they thought that they didn't need to baby him in the morning. Yes it was probably a bad idea to give the kid GTA but I think people are jumping on the "blame the parents" bandwagon too much here.

I don't see how the parents are getting "child endangerment" charges either. It's not like they handed the kid the keys. I mean he practically stole the car. Bah whatever, least the kid is safe though but the whole thing still seems stupid.

Give the kid some props, hed rather risk his life and try n drive a car to get to school on time rather than playn hooky and killen time playn GTA til his parents got home.

tsk tsk almost hurting yourself to make a desperate attempt to get to school what is wrong with kids these days.

I read this yesterday but I don't recall GTA being involved.

Well there blaming the parents which is good since a six year old shouldn't be playing GTA.....infact,

EVERY PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 18 WHO DID SOMETHING STUPID AND THE MEDIA BLAMES GTA SHOULD SHUT IT SINCE THERE UNDER 18 AND SHOULDN'T BE PLAYING THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!1!!11!!111

I guess everyone's to blame, except the police. The parents for giving a kid GTA and the kid, who wanted to drive to school.

...nothing to do with GTA.
just because he took his parents car, does not mean he learned from a video game.
believe it or not, not all criminals play GTA.

You probably should have mentioned the GTA part in your post. It is indicated in the source, though.

HEY, you can't cite GTA without adding MONSTER TRUCK JAMS as well.


But yeah, he said "he learned to drive" by playing the above games.

Where exactly were the parents? Who was the kid left home with?

I was just wondering when they put R2 and L2 buttons in Ford's.

Just out of my own interest, WHAT ON EARTH WAS A 6 YEAR OLD PLAYING GTA FOR! ~I'm assuming this kid has an older sibling with the game because i can't imagine what kind of ridiculous bad parents would buy thier child Grand Theft Auto!!! I mean when i was younger i played the first version at my 18 done-nothing-with-his-life cousins back-garden house. But having it at your OWN house?! Just insane.

And Raijin1999 is right, who WAS he left at home with?! Also, how on earth could the kid know which pedal is which, how he reached the keys from where ever they were (I'm assuming they were on the kitchen top) and more importantly, to the fact how did he know which pedal is which, but HOW DID HE REACH THE PEDALS?!

I suppose it could have been a nissan micra.