Game addiction
I’ve skipped school before, but this kid takes the cake for the most elaborate excuse. A 15-year-old from Perth, Australia, skipped school to play online games for over 16 hours a day, over a full three weeks. How did he do this? Every morning he put on his school uniform until his mother went to work. As soon as she left, he would change out of it and started playing. His mother would return home after he was supposed to have come home from school. To cover for himself at school, he had informed the school he was having surgery. His parents finally caught on to his ruse when the school contacted them to check up on him.
Seventeen-year-old Daniel Petric murdered his mother and injured his father after they refused to let him play Halo 3. The previous entries and most of the entries on this list are related to massive multiplayer online games, but I chose to include an Xbox first person shooter game because of how he murdered his mother. Petric walked into his parents’ room and said “Would you close your eyes? I have a surprise for you,” before shooting his father between the eyes. This eerie line sounds like it came straight out of a horror movie.