Swedish paper the Metro is blowing the incident out of proportion, alerting readers of a new trend — you know, the one in which kids do lines all night to play video games, instead of drinking Red Bull. Well, the kids would’ve been drinking energy drinks, if only they hadn’t been banned in Sweden to kids under the age of 15. The ban came about after Swedish youths were drinking too many energy drinks, skipping meals and some even dying. Hey, there’s always coffee, kids.
What’s more, one pundit says that because gamers are isolated at home and playing with others online, it’s difficult to know exactly how many Swedish kids are gaming cokeheads. There could be many more!
Maybe there are teenagers doing coke and playing video games. But there are probably way more adults doing it and not playing video games at all, but talking people’s ears off.
Ungdomar byter Redbull mot kokain [BrutalCS Thanks, Sebastian!][Pic]
Aidan Dullard
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:22 PMUm, that article is in Swedish so we can’t really judge for ourselves…
But it does look like another “gaming is driving kids to do EVIL!” news story. Mixed in with some bugbears about how, of course, kids are now drug-addled, introverted, unhealthy, crackhead sociopaths.
Stefan
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:39 PMMight want to add “drug addicts” to the worlds misconception of the gaming world, along with anti-social, murdering psychopaths lol
Thermal Ions
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:50 PMWow, a whole 15 teens using coke, based upon chat logs, because of course teens never exaggerate or lie in chat channels.
Mannon
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 9:50 PMThey ‘suspect’ them? So, there’s no been no verifiable cocaine use? That’s not a story; that’s not having a story, but printing it anyway!
Steven
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 10:48 PMand whats to say these 15 teens were not already using cocaine before the ban?
15 is not really a large number and i’d expect the real number to be higher with or without the ban on energy drinks.
James Mac
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 10:50 PMGood Lord, can you imagine how bad the lag must seem when you’re on coke?
Aaron
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:19 AMTo quote excellent Scottish skit comedy show Chewing the Fat: “Oi can definitely smell shite”.
Mark Serrels
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 8:29 AMWHAAA! You watch Chewing The Fat? The Big Man is my hero.
Mike Gresham
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:40 AMThat’s the best idea they could come up with under ‘Fun Things to Do while Busted Up on Coke?’
Pfft, youth of today.
Toolboy
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 3:02 AMHere it comes, I can see the media headlines now.
“Gaming, its a gateway drug!”
Denaz
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:20 PMlol beaten to the punch. Exactly what I was goin to say
Virus__
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 8:43 AMPenn & Teller should do a Bullshit! episode on Gaming & Drugs now, they already did Games & Violence. Informative bunch those 2.
Baa
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 10:54 AMDoesn’t everybody do coke while gaming? Thought that was the norm?
Reoh
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:44 PMI knew those energy drinks were a gateway drug, RedBull gives you wings? More like a nose powdering!
/sarcasm. ;)