An 11-year old boy engages OPP's highway safety division in a pursuit after playing "GTA V" all night. "GTA V" or "Grand Theft Auto V" has a Mature rating by the ESRB.
A recent incident shocked some of the officers of Ontario's Highway 400 after having been engaged in a pursuit initiated by an 11-year-old boy. According to Cogconnected's article: "Drivers called it in thinking it was probably an impaired driver because the vehicle was all over the highway, the driver was heading northbound on Highway 400. Police say the driver exited at King Road, and then got back on the highway, this time going southbound. That's when an OPP officer attempted to pull him over."
After boxing the vehicle to a rolling stop, the officers were shocked to see that an 11-year-old boy was behind the wheel. Officer Schmidt who also tweeted the incident said that after playing "GTA V," the boy wanted to find out what it was like driving a car, and once again, "Grand Theft Auto V" has become the center of attention in this incident.
"Grand Theft Auto V" is rated M for Mature by the ESRB or Entertainment Software Ratings Board. Founded 22 years ago, the ESRB was called IDSA or the Interactive Digital Software Association during those times. By 2000 the ESRB enforcement system was established, an excerpt from ESRB's enforcement states that: "While ESRB's regulatory oversight extends only to video game developers and publishers, ESRB works diligently to ensure that consumers are presented with rating information wherever video games are promoted, and that access to material intended for older viewers is appropriately restricted," which means that the ratings are there for a reason and not just for show.
Studies in the past years involving video game content states that 90 percent of teenagers claim that their parents never check the ratings of the video games they are currently playing or about to purchase, based on the study by Dr. David Walsh. Parents should also be responsible for watching over the content that their children are playing, in the end, it all comes down to the guidance provided guardians and not video games.
