U.S. - Forts are everywhere. They're often hastily constructed -- thrown together in less than a minute from pieces of wood (and sometimes stone or steel) -- and often abandoned, the kids who made them running off to make another fort in mere minutes. Parents are baffled, but an easy culprit has been found: video games.

"Kids are constantly playing these games in which fort construction is done without a second thought," said legislator Clarence Lowe. "They're being influenced into thinking that people build forts all the time for no reason. They think that's normal." Lowe followed up with some dramatic pictures of a two story fort near his house missing a back wall, and then a weird set of stairs that just went high up into the air but led nowhere and seemed to defy physics.

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