Kid Saves Family Because Mario Kart

[JTM]

[video=youtube;uvyUUDp4zNY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvyUUDp4zNY[/video]

To summarize (for the ****s out there for whatever reason incapable of devoting slightly over a minute of their time to watch this video), one child's grandmother passed out at the wheel due to a heart attack, and this child took full hold of the situation without hesitation by grabbing the wheel and steering his family off to safety on the side of the road. This is a remarkable story. Most ten-year olds- and likely some adults- placed in this kid's position would utterly lack the cognitive ability to react in the manner he did. What was the basis of his call to action? Mario Kart, of course. Apparently, according to the child, video games (Mario Kart, in particular) had helped him in a dire situation by allowing quick thinking. According to other news sources, he has been rewarded with a medal and has been recognized on other fronts. Personally, I hope Nintendo will take notice and respond because that would be ******* awesome.

This is an interesting step in news media glorifying and imploring the use of video games in real-life situations, as opposed to the usual slander and chastisement of the entire gaming sect. With established and popular products out there already such as Brain Age, the media and outside perspective on gaming has been slowly shifting away from "just a pointless pastime and capitalistic waste of money". The age of super phones has also weighed a heavy influence on the once-shunned activity. How do you feel about the development in mental skills offered through video games? Have you found yourself in a similar instance?

 

[RobiZ]

I have seen games helping me in real life situations. E.G the games where you have to use something instead of other thing. Once this logic helped me out in exam xD I didn't have a eraser , and i had to erase and no one had erasers around me. So was thinking and then i figured out that i can erase with the pen gripping part(it's from rubber).

But speaking generally,there have been a lot of these. I remember one, where kid stole his parent's car key and drove almost to school (5km?), but crashed about 100m from school. He said he learned to drive in GTA San Andreas.:fight:

 

[KYnetiK]

Many moons ago during my high school years, I remember there was an interesting case in my hometown.

A police car decided to follow a 4WD that seemed suspicious. It wasn't being driven erratically, in fact it was just the opposite. It was by-the-book. Too perfect, thought the officers, and so after following around the fairly busy shopping district they decided to pulled it over, only to find it was being driven by a 10 year old girl.

Apparently the girls sister had promised to take her somewhere but was busy with her boyfriend. And so the girl, fed up with waiting, stole the keys and went on her own. Totally gobsmacked at her exemplary ability to drive a big vehicle through busy streets and still follow the road rules, the police had asked her how it was that she was such a skilled driver, to which she replied,

" I have all the best driving games on my Playstation."

 

[RobiZ]

Many moons ago during my high school years, I remember there was an interesting case in my hometown.

A police car decided to follow a 4WD that seemed suspicious. It wasn't being driven erratically, in fact it was just the opposite. It was by-the-book. Too perfect, thought the officers, and so after following around the fairly busy shopping district they decided to pulled it over, only to find it was being driven by a 10 year old girl.

Apparently the girls sister had promised to take her somewhere but was busy with her boyfriend. And so the girl, fed up with waiting, stole the keys and went on her own. Totally gobsmacked at her exemplary ability to drive a big vehicle through busy streets and still follow the road rules, the police had asked her how it was that she was such a skilled driver, to which she replied,

" I have all the best driving games on my Playstation."

Amazing xD. I wonder if they got any kind of punishment :? Or they were so amazed that they just led her home ?

 

[KYnetiK]

They charged the sister iirc.

 

[Horatio]

They charged the sister iirc.

Tbh, good. I don't want the police to bend the rules just because they look cute. I want policemen who ARE the law, not subjective appliers of the law.

"I aaaam the laaaaw" ~ the perfect police officer.

 

[pumadace2000]

"I aaaam the laaaaw" ~ the perfect police officer.

Tell that to Detroit.

Back on topic. Truck Simulator 2 time.... if only I had a wheel controller...

 

[Grega]

Playing games does help you with multitasking and hand eye coordination skills. Lots of people even learn how to speak english because of games.

So yea nothing new really, just nice to see a difference from the usual slander.

 

[RobiZ]

Playing games does help you with multitasking and hand eye coordination skills. Lots of people even learn how to speak english because of games.

So yea nothing new really, just nice to see a difference from the usual slander.

Theoretically i learned English generally , because of computer(most of it).

 

[Grega]

Theoretically i learned English generally , because of computer(most of it).

I learned english and german from watching cartoons. Your point?

 

[RobiZ]

I learned english and german from watching cartoons. Your point?

I learned from windows UI , game dialogs and UI, talking on chats and reading a lot and different type and genre of stuff on internet.

 

[Baaja]

I learned English with the Final Fantasy series, I played 7 through 10 from the ages of 7 to like maybe 12-14. That helped me a lot! One thing though, which I do not know if games thought me, is that I have experienced "think on your feet"-situations a few times. I was able to react to the situation with proper judgement and disarmed the whole thing before others had even finished assessing what was going on. No idea if this can be credited to playing games, but there is a possibility.

 

[Deathshot]

"I aaaam the laaaaw" ~ the perfect police officer.

Spanky will come back if you keep quoting that.



Ontopic: That is quite crazy how video games have this big affect on peoeple.