This could have ended badly: An 11-year-old boy bought a used GTA 5 and found a package of meth in the game’s box.
When Kayla McAllister’s eleven-year-old son came to her and asked what the package was, the mother from Florida must have felt very differently. Because in the packaging of GTA 5, which they had previously purchased used at a GameStop store, the boy found a package with questionable content. After the police were called, the suspicion was confirmed: The substance in the package was methamphetamine.
Drugs were hidden in the manual
As Kotaku reports, Kayla McAllister was with her son on Sunday, May 7, at a GameStop store to exchange old games. They purchased a used version of Grand Theft Auto V there. To pass the long wait usually involved in installing GTA 5, her son flipped through the game’s manual. That’s when he found the package of drugs.
On Facebook, Kayla McAllister writes: “Today I was in GameStop in Tallahassee with my son to trade in old games and get new ones. When he opened the booklet of one of the used games, my 11-YEAR-OLD SON found this: A package with fucking meth. Obviously, the game wasn’t properly checked when it came into the store, and because of this negligence, I could have lost my child. Luckily, he brought the package straight to us and asked what it was”
After the parents saw the package, they called the police. They conducted a test of the white substance and confirmed that it was meth.
Similar incident already in September
A very similar situation occurred last year: In September 2016, another eleven-year-old boy from Louisiana bought a used game in a GameStop store that also contained a bag of meth.
Because these stories sound so similar, Kayla McAllister received messages accusing her of having “stolen” the story. She says that she wasn’t aware of any other incident of this kind until now. Now she is even angrier at GameStop, because they allowed this story to repeat itself.
The children could have died
If the son hadn’t immediately brought the bag to his parents, much worse could have happened. The three-year-old daughter of McAllister also lives in the household. “I couldn’t sleep at all.” While going through her son’s games, the daughter could have found the drugs, and this story might have turned out differently. “She could have died and I would have to ask myself for the rest of my life where the drugs even came from,” says McAllister.
GameStop contacted the mother after this incident and offered her a replacement video game.
However, the mother does not want to have anything to do with this company anymore and refused the “offer”. The moral of the story, McAllister writes on Facebook: “Please check all used games you buy. Just the thought that something so crazy could happen to one of my children drives me crazy. So PLEASE PLEASE, CHECK EVERYTHING.”
In response to a request from Kotaku, GameStop wrote that they deeply regret the incident and are working with local law enforcement to assist them in the investigation.
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