So says Lancashire man
According to the last Bastion of Truth in modern times the Lancashire Evening Post, Lancashire parents needn’t worry about their kids binge drinking or dabbling with drugs, because many are already under the spell of a far more terrifying beast: computer games.
One schoolboy came forward to The Evening Post to spin his tale of woe – he admitted that his games addiction completely took over his life, he got rid of his mates, neglected school, played truant and only ate junk food. He went on gaming sessions that would last up to 48 hours.
Naysayers need only look to Steve Pope, the Therapy Pope of Garstang, Wyre, Lancashire, who claims that spending two hours on a “game station” is “equivalent to taking a line of cocaine” in the high it produces.
We talked to a recovering games addict who recently finished a stint at a Lancashire Xbox rehabilitation centre. “It just got totally out of control,” the former addict who wished not to be named told us. “Just a two hour Call of Duty session would lead to me talking frantically about myself, shaking, and craving more and more and more. Sometimes the rush I got made me so wired that I’d get really violent and throw my controller at the cat. I used to regularly call up other Call of Duty players at 3 in the morning just to get them to come over, they charged £100 each time.” Read more…
