Boy, 4, finds cannabis in game bought from Littlehampton store

THERE was an unexpected bonus feature with a computer game a father bought for his four-year-old son – a bag of cannabis.
By The Newsroom
Published 15th Apr 2010, 13:21 BST

Andy Brown, of Wheatcroft, Wick, bought two pre-owned games from Blockbuster, in Surrey Street, Litthehampton, on Thursday for his son Riley.

"We got home and he took them upstairs, and 10 minutes later came back down with it in his hand, saying 'Daddy, what's this?'

"It was all mixed up with tobacco in a small plastic bag.

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"I took it off him straight away, but this could have been so much worse. What if he had thought it was sweets, and started munching away on it?

"It doesn't bear thinking about."

Andy called the store straight away, but said he was not happy with the response.

"They didn't seem too concerned, and said that they would credit a free rental to my account.

"But this is serious, it's not a matter of a scratched CD or the wrong disk being in the box."

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He added that he had started to throw the contents of the bag away but had decided to keep it as evidence of the find.

"It has obviously been put in there by whomever traded in the game, not by anyone in the shop.

"I don't want this to happen to anyone else, I think the boxes should all be checked before they go on sale, and it's obvious that a large proportion of these games are going to kids.

"I could imagine it's a common hiding place for this sort of thing. I was told that they check for scratches, but not for anything like this."

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He said that the bag was hidden inside the instruction manual for Fight Night Volume 4, a boxing game for XBox360.

A spokesman for Blockbuster said that the company would be carrying out a full investigation into the validity of the claim.

When asked what procedures were in place to check cases of games traded in and sold on, he refused to comment.

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