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When I was younger my parents got angry at me because I lost my homework assignment. My dad started shoveling my possessions into garbage bags, I started screaming, he hit me with a shovel, grabbed me by my neck and threw me and I ran off. Barefoot into the woods in the middle of winter. There was snow on the ground. I kept running until I got to the stream and I tried jumping over it. Didn't quite make it... I fell in. I crawled out on the other side and sat against a tree. I was covered with freezing water. My feet were swollen and bleeding and I was so cold. I didn't know what to do. I screamed for help but I was too far out for someone to help me. I eventually decided that if I didn't want to die I had to go back through the water and make my way home. I made it, my parents hadn't tried searching for me. They were completely unconcerned.

So my theory is something is likely to have happened to him to prevent him from finding someplace warm and he froze to death. Like my story, but if I had not tried to go back through that water.

I'd also like to add that its possible that the parents are more at fault than the article lets on. With the kid dead, we would never know if the parents overreacted and hit him thus making the running away sound more reasonable. The article also doesn't mention how long they waited to search. Its possible that the kid ended up dying within the first day, and if the parents waited until day 2 they might have already been too late.



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Yes the parents might have been trying to break the addiction before it started, but if they knew he was like that before why would they buy and M rated game specially a violent one such as cod4.



What a bunch of losers.



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Gamerace said:
This is a terrible tragedy. And so are some of these short-sighted and meanspirited comments.

Do you think the parents really just ignored the problem all this time? Of course not. I'm sure they tried everything reasonable to discourage the behaviour and certainly banning him from his 360 was one of those things. I've done that myself when my son's grades were slipping because he wasn't concentrating enough on his homework.

But who could have forseen this?? The child acted in a way way out of line with the punishment. I'm not blaming him, but who runs away from home and (presumably) starves themselves to death because they can't play CoD4 anymore? Someone with some deep seated problems.

Perhaps, in hindsight, the parents could have/should have gone about this differently and that's a thought that will haunt these folks until they die, but they acted in accordance to the way you would with any normal child. Unfortunately it turns out their child wasn't as normal as they thought.

Agreed. I had been married to a  girl who was a huge everquest addict. It basically came between us in our marriage. Everyone in her family tried to get her off the computer, break the habit, whatever. Yet she just felt persecuted for her love of gaming and withdrew further. Gaming addictions can be serious and even destroy lives in one form or another.