Parents laugh at kid thinking he got an Xbox 3

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xdarkyrex

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http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/worst-parents-in-the-world-punk-kid-into-thinking-he-got-an-xbox/


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When you were a kid did your parents ever do anything mean to you for their own amusement? Whatever it was, something tells us it wasn't as evil as what Jonathan's (above) family did on Christmas morning, having him unwrap an empty Xbox box with some shirts inside -- while on video, mind you -- and then everyone laughing at him when he got upset and cried over being hoodwinked. For the love of all that is holy in the gadget-loving world, that is so wrong. Despite the fact his family told Jonathan multiple times in the video, "C'mon, you know we can't afford an Xbox!", the kid's shining example of an older brother (who uploaded the video) claims that they actually did get him the console, and that he'd eventually upload the video of the "real" unwrapping. He never did. Right.

Jonathan, you out there? Screw those people, they clearly don't understand what it is to be a kid and to want an awesome gadget so badly you can taste it. We've been there our whole lives. Since, as a publication, we can't just adopt you and raise you as our own, I will personally send you an Xbox 360 and some games -- but only on the condition that you swear to you'll never let your douchebag family play with it. Hit me up at engadget at gmail dotcom, make sure you can identify yourself so I know I've got the right person.

Update: We've been flooded with email from well-meaning geeks and even Microsoft; just about everyone wants to help us hook up Jonathan. We totally appreciate the sentiment, but we've got this covered. We think we've gotten in touch with his family (who let us know he never got an Xbox, and the whole thing really was a prank on the poor kid); once we know for sure we have the right people we'll post again.
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On one hand, its just a video game and its no big fuckin deal.

On the other hand, children can be pretty emotionally fragile and his parents clearly suck when they saw how upset he was and just kept laughing at him to keep up the idea that its not serious so to assuage their own guilt for being assholes on christmas morning to a little kid.

Hardly going to scar the child or anything, but who knows, people have snapped over less, even children.
 
xdarkyrex said:
On the other hand, children can be pretty emotionally fragile and his parents clearly suck when they saw how upset he was and just kept laughing at him to keep up the idea that its not serious so to assuage their own guilt for being assholes on christmas morning to a little kid.
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Tell me about it. When I was 11 I got HoMM III on Christmas. It was so shockingly awesome that I locked myself in the bathroom for few minutes.
Amazing feeling, all warm inside D:
Anyway, his parent's simply suck.
 
SuAside said:
no Xbox for him until he gets a fucking haircut.
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Don't know wich was the more cruel thing actually, letting him have that haircut, or the xbox thing.
 
God, if it were me, I would have torn these stupid clothes apart. What a nasty joke, seriously...Oh and the haircut is not THAT bad because the kid is actually cute.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
The parents did him a favour, he might have grown up to be a console retard.
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Yeah...maybe he will thank his parents when he grows up someday !!! :mrgreen:
 
Anyways, such things can fuck up you emotionally real good - kids can't see things from a perspective as good as adults and shock therapy won't help them to do so.
 
It's guys like that who goes rambo on universities later in life! They should have gotten that xbox.
 
Without sounding to..uhh.. ignorant.

I am surrounded by these types of "people" where I live.


It really is a chosen lifestyle rather than genetic, poor kid.
 
I love how pissed off the magazine gets over this.

It just furthers my belief about the majority of console gamers being myopic asses with persecution complexes.
 
generalissimofurioso said:
I love how pissed off the magazine gets over this.

It just furthers my belief about the majority of console gamers being myopic asses with persecution complexes.
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its not a magazine, and its not a site about gaming.
 
shit man, what's with the sig? trying to shock us? or do you have a fetish for zombies?
 
they're eating the body of christ and drinking the blood of christ.

nothing wrong with that is there? most practising christians do that every time they go to church.
 
Ravager69 said:
shit man, what's with the sig? trying to shock us? or do you have a fetish for zombies?
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the latter.

SuAside said:
they're eating the body of christ and drinking the blood of christ.

nothing wrong with that is there? most practising christians do that every time they go to church.
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mostly just catholics.
 
xdarkyrex said:
SuAside said:
they're eating the body of christ and drinking the blood of christ.
nothing wrong with that is there? most practising christians do that every time they go to church.
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mostly just catholics.
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and the majority of christians are catholics, ergo the above still stands.
 
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