Generally-speaking the effect of playing too many videogames is being unable to shut them out after you’ve finished a session. We’ve all experienced it – reliving those gameplay moments where the wheels fell off your best laid plans to assault a Covenant stronghold, assembling perfect Tetris lines in your sleep, and so on. However for certain individuals post-gaming stress is an altogether more serious complaint.

Take the ‘out-of-control child’, as reported on Florida’s TCPalm.com. This kid had been enjoying an extended bout of Halo 3 to the extent that when his parents asked him to stop late in the evening he flatly refused. Faced with such juvenile obstinacy the parents were left with little alternative but to remove the wireless card from their son’s machine, whereupon things all got a bit out of hand…

First the child flew into a seething rage, stomping around the house trying to find where his folks had hidden his passport to gaming heaven. Next he took a swing at his Ma – and connected! Then he locked himself in his bedroom while his parents called in the Floridian Fuzz. Alas the fun doesn’t end there either – once the Police had arrived and gained entrance to his room he took a shot at them too, socking Deputy Sean Harnage on the lip. Ooyah!

The end result of all this being a set of shiny new bracelets, a nice trip downtown in the back of a police car, charges of battery-domestic violence and battery on a law-enforcement officer, and no more games for the next 40 years (probably). We’re sure there’s a lesson in all this somewhere. Let us know if you find it…