Florida of the Day: 4-year-old finds free gun hidden under house, just like in the “Grand Theft Auto” games

Photo of the actual house in St. Pete with a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas heads-up display laid over it.
It turns out that in the dark, everything looks like PlayStation 2.

In the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, you start the game with very little money in a rough neighborhood. That’s not a problem once you realize that there are a number of free weapons hidden in the area around your house, including brass knuckles, a shovel, a pistol, and even a mini submachine gun. The video below shows where you can find these goodies:

It turns out that not only do many parts of Florida look like the scenes in Grand Theft Auto; they’ve even got the free hidden weapons! Yesterday in St. Petersburg, a 4 year-old boy was playing with a cat, which ran under his house. The boy chased after the cat and found a revolver with several rounds in it, and like any newbie Grand Theft Auto player, he fired a round as part of checking out his newly-found booty. Luckily he fired into the ground and no one was hurt.

A happy ending like this calls for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ “Mission Accomplished” theme:

Unfortunately, a more tragic version of this story played itself out this weekend in Orlando.