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French prisons ban the PlayStation 3… Xbox is okay though

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We keep being told by all these experts that video games enhance violent tendencies and that we as parents should be careful about what games our kids play. Now if any of this is true at all wouldn’t it make absolutely no sense at all to allow prisoners to play video games in prison?

But apparently in France prisoners are allowed to play video games on their current gen systems. As long as that system isn’t a PlayStation 3.

According to one prisoner in France he used to be allowed to play on his PlayStation 3 but then after being transferred to a new prison the big meanie guards stated he could no longer have it due to the built in WiFi. However he was allowed an original Xbox as that didn’t have the built in WiFi… but the prisoner wasn’t happy with that and went crying to the courts to make the mean guards give his toy back.

Thankfully someone in the French judicial system had taken time off from waving the white flag and had enough sense to refuse the man’s claim and send him back to prison. He then appealed that ruling and was sent packing again. Unbelievably he still has one more appeal available and with him having nothing better to do other than wasting tax payers money you just know he’s going to hit the courts again.

The whole thing is ridiculous and depressing, but hey welcome to the world we live in.

Last Updated: April 10, 2013

57 Comments

  1. Kingkappie

    April 10, 2013 at 07:49

    You can play Xbox in prison? not in SA the Gard will take it and give it to his son!

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    • HvR

      April 11, 2013 at 01:17

      You can play it ass long ass you smuggle it in.

      Reply

  2. Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

    April 10, 2013 at 07:52

    “Is this the real life. Or is it just fantasy”

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    • McDangerousZa

      April 10, 2013 at 07:56

      It seems like the French courts are caught in a landslide, due to the prisoner not being allowed his escape from reality…

      *Queen-5*

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      • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

        April 10, 2013 at 08:03

        Mamma! Just killed a man! Put a gun up to his head, pulled my trigger now his dead!
        Mamma! Life had just begun, but now they’ve gone and taken my PS3 awaaaayyyy!!

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        • Anon A Mouse

          April 10, 2013 at 08:11

          I want to play my Playstation, I want to Play it now. I want to play my Playstation I want to play it now. PLAYSTATION PLAYSTATION

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          • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

            April 10, 2013 at 08:27

            Let him have iiiiit!
            We won’t let him have it!
            Let him have it!
            We won’t let him have it!

          • Admiral Chief Erwin

            April 10, 2013 at 09:06

            Thunderbolts and lightning

        • McDangerousZa

          April 10, 2013 at 08:25

          The fact that these posts haven’t gotten a million upvotes is a sign that kids these days don’t know what good music is anymore.

          I’d totally have Brian May’s adopted babies…

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          • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

            April 10, 2013 at 08:42

            Sad that they don’t know. *sigh*

  3. Admiral Chief Erwin

    April 10, 2013 at 07:57

    They should allow the Xbox, but give them PS3 games.
    PRISON

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      April 10, 2013 at 07:58

      haha

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    • Yolanda Green

      April 10, 2013 at 08:25

      lol so evil xD

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      • Admiral Chief Erwin

        April 10, 2013 at 08:26

        Or give them PS3, with PS3 games, BUT NO CONTROLLERS!

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        • Kaya

          April 10, 2013 at 08:32

          Or if you want to really punish them, only give them Move controllers and games.

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          • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

            April 10, 2013 at 08:58

            Kinect. With Star Wars dance off!

          • Nicholas Gatewood

            April 11, 2013 at 13:39

            You mean awesome games like House of the Dead 4? >_>

    • OVG

      April 10, 2013 at 08:31

      Give them Sim Shitty with no internet connection.

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    • Wtf101

      April 10, 2013 at 08:46

      Nah… you are too kind… Make them play Aliens: Colonial Marines

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  4. TechniKyle

    April 10, 2013 at 08:00

    Damn, they probably don’t have much of a gaming backlog.

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  5. OVG

    April 10, 2013 at 08:03

    Is Jacki Chang in prison? 😀

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    • Admiral Chief Erwin

      April 10, 2013 at 08:22

      Possibly, although Jackie Chan I don’t think so 😛

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      • OVG

        April 10, 2013 at 08:32

        lol

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      • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

        April 10, 2013 at 08:33

        Mere prison bars cannot contain the beast that is Jackie Chan!

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      • Wtf101

        April 10, 2013 at 08:42

        Comment of the week. Have an upvote!

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        • Admiral Chief Erwin

          April 10, 2013 at 08:55

          😉

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      • Kobus Nel

        April 10, 2013 at 09:34

        LOL

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  6. Jonah Cash

    April 10, 2013 at 08:10

    Mon ami, parlez vous francais????

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  7. Neil Cronje

    April 10, 2013 at 08:24

    Sounds more like the prison guards are a bunch of Xbox fan boys lol.

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  8. Martin du preez

    April 10, 2013 at 08:36

    It’s quite easy actually. The Xbox haz no games,only Kinect barbie games and Kinect dancing games. Ps3 has hardcore mature games (Last of Us,God of war etc) that could make the hard criminals get that blood lust again.

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      April 10, 2013 at 08:59

      Games don’t make people violent… Lag does….

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      • Admiral Chief Erwin

        April 10, 2013 at 09:07

        or rude 12year old fanbois

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  9. DBL_ZA

    April 10, 2013 at 08:42

    “Thankfully someone in the French judicial system had taken time off from waving the white flag”

    XD XD XD

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  10. Comment Charles

    April 10, 2013 at 08:54

    No games, only religious or psychological books. What ho?

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  11. Kobus Nel

    April 10, 2013 at 09:33

    Wait just a minute… Prisoners are allowed entertainment? No no no. I’m pretty sure they threw their rights out the window when they decided to murder someone.

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  12. Slade Boender

    April 10, 2013 at 09:43

    White flag HAHAHAHAHAHA Surrender Monkeys to the rescue!

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  13. Rincethis: Spellalicious

    April 10, 2013 at 09:58

    First world prison problems. Le Sigh…

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  14. Andre116

    April 10, 2013 at 10:20

    Mental not to self. If I ever want to murder someone, I’ll need to trick them to go to France with me. Remember to take an old xbox with…just in case.

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  15. Daryl Eksteen

    April 10, 2013 at 11:10

    People in prison shouldn’t be allowed to play games in prison. Hell they shouldn’t even be allowed to lift weights, play sports and beef up. They should be doing yoga and knitting shit.

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    • Admiral Chief Erwin

      April 11, 2013 at 14:19

      I wouldn’t like to knit shit O_O

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  16. Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

    April 10, 2013 at 12:31

    European prisons sound awesome. Video games, education, gyms, health care…? I always think of the Scandinavian (Norwegian) model and think… man.. that sounds like a nice holiday….

    Meanwhile in Thailand: Thailand – Known as the “Bangkok Hilton”, Bang Kwang is understaffed, overcrowded, and filled with inmates who struggle with insanity as they spend the first months of their sentences chained in leg irons. The Thai culture doesn’t believe in coddling prisoners, and, in the words of Director of Prison Khun Nattee, “Thai prisons are tough…you don’t want to be in Bang Kwang.” Poor medical care is standard at this prison, with sick inmates shackled to their beds as they wait for medicines they probably will never get. If you find yourself on Death Row at Bangkwang, you will have leg irons welded on until your execution, and you will be given only two hours notice before dying by lethal injection.
    Read more: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-deadliest-prisons-world.php#ixzz2Q3UKM1QX

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    • matthurstrsa

      April 10, 2013 at 13:55

      That’s probably how prisons should be, although wrongful imprisonments make it a tough system to support. You need a balance of scare people shitless and reasonably comfortable.

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      • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

        April 10, 2013 at 14:06

        Yeah, I think there should be a fine balancing act between rehabilitation and punishment, but prisoners should never forget why they’re in prison to begin with. It’s good to understand that your behaviour might be because of your tragic childhood or because events in your adulthood forced you to crime, but it should never be the “catch-em” excuse.

        I like the idea of a prison that allows for rehabilitation but also a judicial system that forces prisoners to make amends with their victims. Let them work in a prison sanctioned industry, earn a taxable wage, but all non-taxable proceeds go to repaying a victim or societal debt. Don’t want to repay your debt, fine, but you get your sentence doubled, and you lose all privileges Some may call it slave labour, I call it Jim Lenoir’s “Balls to the Wall” Plan.

        Life in prison for murder, that’s 25 years of repayment to victims. Steal a chocolate bar, you’re repaying that store a set amount monthly for the next 3 years (not the value of the chocolate bar, but rather for being a thieving douche).

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        • matthurstrsa

          April 10, 2013 at 14:08

          That sounds like a good system to me! Also still want to go have lunch at Pollsmoor. Apparently the food is pretty decent and damn cheap.

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          • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

            April 10, 2013 at 14:20

            You know, it sounds like the biggest opening to a joke. “Hey bud, I heard Pollsmoor prison has nice food”, but I also heard that. Apparently the little restaurant there has very nice grub…

          • matthurstrsa

            April 10, 2013 at 14:27

            “Yeah but it was rather difficult to eat with the knife in my eye”

            Sounds like an adventure should be embarked upon.

  17. The foxy fox!

    April 10, 2013 at 21:48

    Or they could just give him the new XBox without Internet access. Or they could just give him a heap of trash… Oh yeah… Same thing. Heh. Peh heh!

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