Sometimes violent video games can be good for children.
Sandy Wilson of Santa Fe, Texas, near Galveston, was looking after her three grandsons this past March when four armed men burst into the home, reports KTRK-TV of Houston.
The robbers held the family at gunpoint — until they heard a loud voice saying "This is the police! You're surrounded!"
The cops weren't really outside. The boys had been playing Grand Theft Auto (search), a wildly popular and very violent Sony PlayStation2 (search) game in which the main character commits various crimes while being chased by police and other criminals.
Nevertheless, Wilson said, the four hoodlums fled and were quickly caught by the real police.
"The police in the game were saying, 'Stop, we have you surrounded. This is the police,'" Galveston County Asst. DA Michael Elliott explained in court at one gunman's trial. "The burglar, unknowingly, thought this was the actual police and panicked ... being apprehended by PlayStation."
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