The police have one in England 11-year-old boy caught driving, According to Lancashire County police on their official Twitter channel, the child did a few laps in a parking lot in the city of Blackpool.
And this is despite the fact that you can drive at the earliest in the UK at the age of 15 and 9 months – and even then you need a preliminary driver's license. The boy himself does not appear to be punished, but an unspecified family member has been reported for a traffic violation.
GTA should be "to blame": But the strangest thing about the story is – and that's why we're telling you about this incident on our side – that the responsible adult Grand Theft Auto blames the boy's driving lesson.
According to the Lancs Road Police tweet, the family member "had had enough of the child only playing GTA on the PlayStation all day long." Therefore, the 11-year-old should do a few rounds in real time.
The driver of this car was 11 years old … (yes, eleven!) A family member was fed up with the child playing Grand Theft Auto all day on the Playstation, so brought him out to practice driving on a car park Blackpool. .. The adult has been reported for traffic offenses. # T2TacOps pic.twitter.com/TBqKmmOUfG
– Lancs Road Police (@LancsRoadPolice) March 1, 2020
In legal terms, this incident even appears problematic in two ways
However, the hours of driving in Blackpool are not the first strange incident involving both an 11-year-old and GTA. In 2017, for example, we reported that an eleven-year-old child in Florida found a packet of drugs in the game case of a used GTA-5 version.
We recently clarified how to correctly introduce children to video games with two media educators in our detailed plus report on the topic »Help, my child is playing«.