Kid Runs Away Because of Xbox 360 Grounding

[Lloyd]

15 year-old Brandon Crisp, from Barrie, Canada, ran away from home last Monday, and hasn't been seen since.

Brandon's father, Steve, says "He left because we took his Xbox away". Seems Brandon was "addicted" to Call of Duty, and the decision to confiscate his "Xbox" sparked the runaway. His father now fears the worst:

"My personal feeling is that he's met someone online through this game. As a parent, you fear the worst when you don't hear anything for seven days."

Here's a few things the parents and cops could do to track the kid:

1. Give the police a list of all of Brandon's Xbox Live friends and have them track them down and investigate.
2. By another Xbox 360 and create a profile and send friend invites to all of those on Brandon's list. There's a good chance that if he's staying with someone he met on XBL and he's as "addicted" to the game as mention, then he's playing online on one of their systems.