At Prawfs, Ekow Yankow breaks in to ponder whether teaching Torts has made him overly sensitive to media that may encourage tort-like behavior (i.e., a squelched Gap ad).  Ekow's post reminded me of an extremely dangerous video game that could destroy my homelife, but also the various large objects that surround my home:  Katamari!

For those of you who have never played Katamari, I would encourage you not to do so.  However, if you must, be aware that this video game is extremely addictive.  The premise is so silly it's almost stupid, and you can imagine a group of young people in a room saying things like, "Hey, let's make up a game where you're just a giant ball of tape, rolling stuff up!"  "Yeah, and when your ball is big enough, it becomes a star!"  "And as the game progresses, your ball rolls up people!"  "And animals!"  "And cars!"  "And skyscrapers!"  Yeah.  That's the game.  You roll this ball around, picking up various objects until you achieve a certain sized ball.  Sounds stupid and boring, but it's actually really fun and really addictive.

And dangerous and tort-inducing!  Apparently one woman fell into a Katamari-state in her (real) car and tried to roll up a (real) mailbox.  My brother-in-law introduced us the game with this explanation:  "I bought this game after reading an article that said it was so addictive that a woman almost wrecked her car trying to roll up a mailbox."  I'm glad he didn't read an article on heroin.

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