You'd think nothing of a mother asking about purchasing an E-rated game for her ten-year-old son. Most average people wouldn't. After all, E is the lowest rating the ESRB hands out without venturing into Sesame Street-territory.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is rated E. And it's apparently dangerous to sell to mothers with children.
A Staples clerk in Massachusetts, appropriately enough located where the Salem witch hunt went on centuries ago, thought that ten-year-olds playing computer games could be dangerous. So, this clerk told the police about it. Had I been the cop fielding this complaint, I would have laughed in this guy/gal's face. But no, instead, a state trooper was dispatched to the poor boy's home where the trooper flashed a light into their home, at 8:30 on a rainy night, scaring the bejeezus out of the poor mom.
The last paragraph in the article sums up my feelings on this:
At one time it was rare to find US citizens, in the safest and most prosperous country in the world, jumping at their own shadows. Now we only note how high.
