Community | September 03, 2008 | 18 comments

Grand Theft Auto helps preteen save family's lives

source: http://kotaku.com/5044866/grand-theft-auto-helps-preteen-save-familys-lives

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"While we've seen countless story regarding children using Grand Theft Auto as their inspiration to do wrong, it's extremely rare that we see news about GTA being cited as a cause for good. It happened on August 27th around 9pm, as the Norris family of five was heading to Diamond, Illinois to visit relatives. Their 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road, hitting a guardrail and flipping four times before coming to a stop, caving in the roof and smashing out the back window. With her mother hanging upside down and her father pinned against the steering wheel, 11-year-old Audrey Plique climbed out of the back window and helped her parents and two younger siblings escape the car. The motivation for her heroic act, according to her mother Karen Norris?"


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18 comments // Grand Theft Auto helps preteen save family's lives

  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  

    • You cannot attribute good and ignore the bad.

      So unless you accept the bad attached you cannot accept the good.

      Because you're lying if that's how you're working.

    • 3 years ago
  • bfudge
  • J_Jammer
  • SDLN
  • AxeRFJ
  • EdKnowsAll
  • satanskidney
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      satanskidney  

    • So without the game she would have just let her parents die? I find it more likely that she helped her parents because they were in a wreck and that the game designers were smart enough to make cars blow up if they flipped over, being somewhat realistic. I'm not against videogames and I don't think that they can make killers out of normal people but this article is quite a stretch.

    • 3 years ago
  • Owwmykneecap
  • Menchaca
  • T_Rose
  • T_Rose
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      T_Rose  

    • yeah sure, an 11 year old helped two full grown adults out of a car. I'm sure they pryed themselves out and wanted a good story for the paper.

    • 3 years ago
  • bfudge
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      bfudge  
    • T_Rose:

      I am Audrey's grandmother. Audrey is very proud of what she did. It was an extremely dark night, a lonely road and no street lights around. Both of her parents glasses were lost and broken and they could not see in the dark. Audrey climbed through tons of broken glass to get out of the vehicle and helped guide them out. I am the one who took the photos. There are about twenty more photos of the vehicle and all but one window was broken and the doors were not pried open. How can you be so cold and heartless. They are lucky to be alive. The airbags did not deploy. I pray to god nothing like this happens to you, your children or your grandchildren. Fortunately, they were wearing their seatbelts. They slammed into and tore up nearly 30 feet of guard rail before the vehicle rolled over. How would you feel if you slammed into 30 feet of guard rail including the posts. There were hundreds of car parts strewn all over the road, shoulder and ditch. I would think that something like this would get the message across to people how important it is to wear seatbelts. Two days after their accident there was another accident in the same general area, all four occupants were thrown from the vehicle, 3 of which died and the other in critical condition. They were not wearing seatbelts. Perhaps you should learn to use your brain and think about this, maybe you should think twice before making any more rude comments like you did. This was a very terrifying experience for all the occupants involved.

    • 3 years ago
  • albey77
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      albey77  

    • This is a classic exaple of Subliminal Learning, and Fight or Flight reflex, Both of which saved this Family...
      Way to go Grand Theft Auto !!!

    • 3 years ago
  • daboz
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      daboz  

    • ""While we've seen countless story regarding children using Grand Theft Auto as their inspiration to do wrong,""

      That statement is Bullcrap. The press HAS TRIED to portray that by inuendo, but no proof or connection has been made. If anything these games vent violent activity and keeps kids off the streets.

    • 3 years ago
  • Blazesboy
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