There was a boy named Andrew who lived in a Calgary suburb with parents who worked long hours and didn’t have enough time to spend with him. He spent most of his time playing violent video games and watching gory movies, to the point that his parents started worrying that he was going a little funny in the head. They decided to send him out to the farm by Caroline Alberta, with his lonely grandfather.
For the first couple days, he went with his grandfather and checked out the horses, cows and chickens. He helped move hay and clean the barn. He visited the neighbours. The grandfather could tell the boy was bored to tears without his video games, so he thought of a new activity.
“There’s no-one around for miles, Andrew. Why don’t you take a gun and my dogs, and go shooting?”
Andrew eagerly headed out with the two prize hunting dogs and a rifle. His grandfather worked away by himself, happy that the boy would be occupied.
Andrew returned later that day. “How was the shooting?” asked the grandfather.
“Great!” he replied. “Got any more dogs?”
Poor dogs…I figured that was the way it was going to end.
Agreed! That’s a pretty funny anecdote, but it seems a little too accurate… the video games these days are completely crazy, and it seems that people want more and more violence!
hey Tim,
Its good to see the original Redneck Humorist is back in action. This post is good, though it got me thinking a little about those poor dogs, and then I thought about the book Ol Yeller, and then I got a little wet in the eyes… Ah heck, now you’ve got me crying…
Steve, the original trade show display guy
PS. It’s kind of funny that the captcha phrase is “paininthebutt” based on your other post I just commented on.
Keep the Redneck Humor coming!
Next time grandpa will be more clear. Poor doggies.
video games these days are completely crazy and that’s really funny. I’ve never heard that joke before. Thanks for posting that.
Lol funny story!
But true, once these violent games infect the minds of young kids it has a massive effect!
i can’t say i didn’t see that coming, but it made me smile, kids just don’t have the common sense these days.
That was funny. Must have been the gory horror that tipped him over the edge ha ha.
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While my dog is my best friend these days… I have to say that is pretty dang funny. Thanks for posting it.
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These kind of games are what is changing the direction of the entire industry. some years ago, this type of market never existed. We have come a long way in “gaming”.
First I feel bad for the dogs, but I thought in the beginning when I started to read the article that he will accidentally hurt the grandfather. We are so used to watch this movies that if you give a gun to a child that would happen. I do not like these video games . I have only girls and thank God they do not like these games anyhow but they have boys that are their friends and I do not allow them even to watch these videos or even movies like that. It is scary to what our world is coming to.
There was a story on the news not to long ago about a kid who murdered another kid over something he did in an online game. Kinda scary.
For anyone, this story may sound funny but if you think deep it has a lot of meaning hidden. These days game makers have gone a bit ahead with their games although they do have a RATING system in place but many kids not qualifying for those ratings also get hands to those games and play. Here I think the role of parents becomes more active because it’s their responsibility what type of game or movie their kid is playing and watching.
Parents should try and get involved with kids in playing video games with them and try to find out games which will help them develop mentally rather than games which are all about crime, killings, zombies etc.
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Yep, Grandpa should have spelled it out for a kid not from the country side. And I’ll join on the other bandwagon. It is not the video games, it is the lack of parenting.
I have never heard that joke before but if PETA hears about…..
Parents should try to participate with children in video games with them and try to find games that allow them to develop mentally, rather than games are all about crime, murder, zombies, etc.
This one’s a funny story but does happen in real life. Many kids who play violent games miss to determine who they should shoot or fire. In games, they just shoot and shoot anyone they see. The kid here shot his grandfather’s dogs maybe because he found nothing to shoot at.