Englishman Arrested for "Learning to Drive On his PlayStation"

Back when I was a younger lad, I played an awful lot of Mario Tennis for the ol’ Nintendo 64. After a while, I realized Tennis was a real sport and decided to give it a go--I was fairly good at it, and I already knew all the rules, so when someone asked me how I learned I would say “Video games!”

Video games are not an acceptable substitute for all learning, however. For example, you probably won’t learn much about gun care and safety from Call of Duty. Or, as Englishman Adam Jones discovered yesterday, you don’t learn much about actual driving from racing games.

Mr. Adam Jones apparently went on a driving spree the other day, causing thousands of pounds of damage to parked vehicles as he sped over a hundred miles per hour through his quaint town of Grantham--stopping only when police deployed road spikes that popped his tires. Adam Jones, apparently, never got a driver's license--and claims that he learned to drive "On his PlayStation."

...ugh.

He was sentenced to twelve months behind bars, with the judge saying:
 

“You said you ‘Only learnt to drive on a Playstation game.’ You were driving like a PlayStation game. You drove as fast as you could as if in a video or PlayStation game without any care for those around you.”

Forget claims that video games make you violent--I think this man just made a pretty good argument for saying they make you stupid.