The boy who had his X-box taken from him. Follow

A teenage boy who ran away from home last month after his Xbox was confiscated has been found dead in Canada.

Brandon Crisp, 15, disappeared on Oct. 14 after his father forbade him from playing his video game console after becoming concerned about the teenager’s obsession with the online game Call of Duty 4.

Steve Crisp said he removed the Xbox 360 after his son’s behavior began to change. He said Brandon’s grades were slipping, he had started skipping school and stealing money.

Brandon fled his home on his bicycle and was last seen in a popular hiking and cycling path near Barrie, Ontario, north of Toronto.

A local newspaper and Xbox creators Microsoft offered a $50,000 reward and 1,600 volunteers searched the local area, but all they found was his abandoned bicycle with a flat tire.

Brandon’s body was found by hunters in a cornfield on Wednesday.

What a shame.

Shame he didn't just sulk like most teenagers do.

Guess he must be gutted that his parents will be wracked with guilt for the rest of their lives because of his stupid reaction to a justified punishment.

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"Crisp Body" heh

Welcome to the real world, kid.

Well if he was better at Call of Duty 4 he would have had better comba skills and would ahve been able to kill his assailent in any number of simulated ways!

Honestly, he probably won't if for no other reason than you are aware of how consuming games can be.

This case just seems an awful lot like a set of parents bought him the game/subscription and then allowed it to be the parent, essentially leaving him on his own, unsupervised. Had they been more proactive as parents by limiting playing time, perhaps participating with him... Well it may have never gotten to this point.

Too many parents let television and games take over, and then are surprised when things like this happen.

"Likely died of hypothermia" says the latest. Ffs, if you're going to run away in a snit at least dress for the weather.

I don't agree that he was necessarily a "world class ************** Is it silly to run away from home because of a game? Perhaps, but one could argue that all the other reasons teens run away are silly as well (in our eyes, as adults) and yet they are no less valid in the eyes of a psychiatrist. There is more to that story than we can tell from that article, of that I am certain.

If that game was the ONLY thing in the child's life, he could very well have snapped when it was taken away. It's a shame that he isn't still alive, because the results of his therapy would be interesting indeed.

How cold blooded of you.

Sad that he is dead, sure why not.

Now it has been oh almost 10 years now since I was 15, but something just strikes me as retarded. How do you die of Hypothermia at that age? I mean I remember being 15 and having at least the common sense to think "Well holy **** I'm freezing my *** off out here, let me go back home."

I just cant wrap my mind around it.

This is why parents need to be more like mine and make their kids go out and play as well as limit their access to video games and TV until they're older so that the kids won't grow up relying on a screen for entertainment.