Destruction Derby

January 23, 2003

In Morgan, MN, a young boy went on a destruction rampage. He went down a street and plowed into cars with a plumbing truck and a pickup truck.

For once, I wonder if this was inspired by videogames. I have definitely gotten caught up in Grand Theft Auto and had moments on the real road where running into other cars sounding like a reasonable idea. In the end, I was able to distinguish real life from a video game. For this young child, like every other incident like this, the bottomline is that the person is nuts. Maybe his inspiration was from something digital, but in the end he was the nutjob who ran his car into other people's.

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