Mom Claims GTA Helped 11 Year Old Rescue Family From Car Wreck

A Canadian woman has praised Grand Theft Auto for giving her daughter the presence of mind to rescue the entire family after their car crashed.

Eleven year old Audrey Plique led her dazed parents and two siblings from the wreckage after it rolled over.

“She just knew, from playing Grand Theft Auto,” said mother Karen Norris. “She saw on there that when a car rolls over, it can blow up. She knew that could happen to us.”

So GTA might just be recognized for doing some good in the world. It sounds like a great feel-good story–- but it’s a double-edged sword.

We suspect that the kid learned to not leave people in peril from TV, or even from her own common sense. Also, if you take this story at face value, GTA is responsible for changing the behaviour of an impressionable person.

This is the exact assumption made by people who take any “GTA made me do it” crime story as gospel, and there are far more of those stories out there. Hold this up as a banner reinforcing the good of games all you want, but ultimately it’s reinforcing the negative.

Source: The Times of Ottawa