14 DAY TRIAL // The PlayStation Portable is a popular device as it has sold over 50 million units worldwide since its release. It gained a lot of popularity with teenagers and hardcore gamers because it had a lot of interesting features and a pretty decent lineup of quality games.
But it now seems that PSP is so popular that kids are trading guns for Sony's handheld console. That is what a middle-school student in Tacoma, Washington, tried to do in order to get himself a PlayStation Portable console. Luckily, all he got was a few days in juvenile correction and a serious talk from his dad, who owned the gun.
The 13-year-old boy, whose identity wasn't disclosed to the public, found out that one of his colleagues was trying to get rid of a PSP and searched his father's possessions until he found the gun. He then proceeded to meet with his colleague and offer him, in exchange for the device, the gun, which wasn't loaded, and ammunition in order to make it dangerous.
And to make matters worse, the boy’s father reported that his second gun was also missing, which prompted the school and the authorities of the city to declare a lockdown in order to search for it and see whether the child also brought it to school with the first weapon.
This is surely something that will generate a lot of heated debate, as it is certain that a few anti-video games protesters will start saying that the kid's love for games made him a danger to society. Hopefully the authorities will also question the child’s father and see just how careful he was with his weapons around his son, who easily took not one but probably two of them from him.
Let's just be happy though that nobody was hurt and that nothing too serious resulted from this somewhat bizarre trade.