PEDOPHILES USE THE NINTENDO DS!

[Giga Guess]

...Keep an eye on your smurfing kids and chill the hell out.

That's what this report was about. It told parents to watch what their kids were doing. Hell, they said the parents didn't read the instruction manual warning about children talking to strangers. The report was warning parents that, "Hey, Your child's DS can be used in a similar fashion to AOL or Yahoo! Messanger." Children this age probably haven't been warned about the dangers of chat rooms and such. The parents probably don't know kids can chat on DS's either.

But how many parents are going to read it as such? And how many parents are gonna go on a holy crusade to bring those evil, twisted people at Nintendo down for corrupting our youth like that.

Lawl. Gotta love fear-mongering.

[JKTrix]

Well, this wasn't on CNN or some other international or nation wide channel. It was on some local Fox station in Milwaukee (never spelled, or said that word in my life). It probably won't be a big deal since I doubt that many people have seen it for it to have an effect. And because it's stupid.

[Vikeve]

Alright I'm never going to go on my D.S and give my adress to random strangers ever again thankyou fox news now I'm perefectly safe.:rolleyes2

[Gnostic Yevon]

Honestly, I think the DS in an airport is less likely than a guy actually walking up to a kid in the airport. For one thing, it's easier. No need to wait until the kid opens the DS, just wait until mommy goes to the Ladies' Room. I don't own a DS, so I'm not sure how hard it would be to connect to a random DS, so I'll assume it's like AOL or something similar. Even going into a public chat, I've never met anybody trying to lure me anywhere (I don't use my real name or age). So I doubt that's really the most dangerous thing you can do.

The second thing is that in order to keep kids from talking to people without mom knowing, the kid has to live in the basement, and never ever leave. And we wonder why our kids are lard-butts and play video games all day -- it's because we've become so scared that we don't let kids play outside anymore. Brilliant.

[nik0tine]

hahahaha.