Cops organize videogame competitions against troublesome kids

By Cory Doctorow at 4:36 am Wednesday, Jan 18

Cops in Edinburgh have been holding video-game competitions with troubled kids to keep them off the streets and out of trouble -- the kids seem to take especial delight in kicking the coppers' asses at games. The program seems to be working, too -- "youth-related crimes" in the area are reported to have fallen by half since the program's inception.

"We told the children they had to behave or they would be banned from the contest. That really seemed to work. Some kids even told me they wouldn't be going out next week because they didn't want to risk getting excluded."

PC Robinson said he knows his way around a PlayStation, what with him having three kids, but he was no match for the youth of Moredun.

"It took them 15 attempts to beat me at Gran Turismo but they thrashed me at the football," he said.

"They were always telling me they would beat me next week. It showed them we're not just cops in uniforms.

Link (via Wonderland)