By Matt Loney and Rupert Goodwins
ZDNet (UK)
September 3, 2002, 3:18 PM PT

In Greece, playing a shoot-'em-up video game could
land you in jail.
The Greek government has banned all electronic games
across the country, including those that run on home
computers, on Game Boy-style portable consoles, and on
mobile phones. Thousands of tourists in Greece are
unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison
for owning mobile phones or portable video games.

Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July,
explicitly forbids electronic games with "electronic
mechanisms and software" from public and private
places, and people have already been fined tens of
thousands of dollars for playing or owning games.

you have got to be kidding!

OMG!! That is CRAZY, I cannot believe that. :confused:

My cousin found that article & thought it so was ridiculous..good thing we don't live in Greece! Probably find all their teenagers smuggling over here!

That is totally insane!

How crazy!!! Guess I better never take my 12 year old to Greece then. :)

wow, Greece huh? well, I once read an article about 1 town in Turkey where they forbid boys older then 12 years old to use a swing. If they catch a boy that's older then 12 on a swing, his parents will get a fee!!

It's really "stupid" the rules that people in control can come up with.
When Soroya mentioned the 12 year old boys not being allowed to be on a swing,made me think of in the prison visitation when a child 8 years of age or older isn't allowed to sit on the parents lap! Pretty hard to explain to a child why their father can't hold them.

I really don't get it... rules and regulations just keep getting more and more crazy....
And the child not being able to sit on his dads lap... that's just not right!

Jodygirl