Articles labeled: video games

OK, we’ll confess that we used to steal money from our parents so we could head over to the local mini-golf place and play Xevious and Q-Bert. But we didn’t have to crack a safe in order to do it.

Cameras caught the students from Bellingham, Mass., spending 20 minutes using a knife to pry open a classroom door. Inside, a safe contained $800 in student funds, which were raised through local fundraisers for class trips or donated by parents, MyFoxBoston reports.

The suspects used a blow torch to burn off the safe’s lock. With all the cash in hand, cameras show the teens, wearing ski masks and rubber gloves to conceal their identities and fingerprints, running out of the building, MyFoxBoston reports.

Police report $700 of the stolen funds has been recovered. The rest of the money allegedly was spent on Chinese food and video games, MyFoxBoston reports.

Here’s the video of the perps in action. Listen for the reporter say it’s, “something straight out of CSI.” Uh, nice try, dude, but we don’t believe anybody was found dead at the scene. Perhaps “Simon & Simon” would be a more apt comparison.

Want to know what pure, unadulterated evil looks like? Read on…

The 5-month-old was dropped off at his parents’ house on Feb. 4, strapped into his car seat. Eight days later, he was found in the same position, said Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons during a bond hearing for the parents.

“He died from starvation due to neglect from these two defendants, his parents,” Lyons said.

The 5 month old baby only weighed 2 lbs. more than what he weighed at birth. He was found lying in his own waste, which had not been changed or attended to in 8 days.

I wonder if they had music playing loud enough to drown out his cries, or if the baby was too weak and dehydrated to cry?

The parents, of course, did nothing but play video-games and eat while their baby starved to death and died in his own filth.

Our son received Guitar Hero 3 from grandma for Christmas, and we’ve rocked out on it way more than he has (even beat Satan handily in the guitar battle, bitches). So we weren’t a bit surprised when we read this story about adult women addicted to the game, some playing so much they develop painful tendinitis. Speaking of which, hey Activision, would it kill you to come out with a full-size guitar for us Wii playing grownups?

Tami Amati admits that sometimes, after she drops her two boys off at school, she comes home and plays the video game “Guitar Hero” … for hours.

“I can play by myself then,” said the 36-year-old stay-at-home mom from Woodstock. “I don’t have to share.”

Fourth-grade teacher Anni Whitaker, 29, of Roselle, lined up at Best Buy at midnight on a school night to buy the new “Guitar Hero III” — for herself.

Whitaker, who is expecting a baby, recently had a pregnant friend over. They balanced the video game’s plastic guitars on their protruding bellies and jammed to the game’s ZZ Top and Guns ‘N Roses songs.