CNN: Xbox Nailed to a Tree
CNN: Xbox Nailed to a Tree
August 19, 2008
Bad parenting?
Bad ecology?
Did it even really happen?
Hard to say, but a CNN iReport apparenly showed an original Xbox and its motherboard nailed to a tree in Virginia. The caption reads:
My husband had repeatedly warned our 3 boys about their behavior while playing the XBOX. Tuesday, after I arrived home from work, our oldest son told me to look in the backyard at "Dad's artwork". Well, I wasn't surprised to see the XBOX proudly displayed on the nearest tree... way to go Honey!!!!!
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BearDogg-X: There's a one minute and a half preview of the video game episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! up at http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do
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Michael Chandra: I missed out on Jack? =(
Michael Chandra: I missed out on Jack? =(
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Escanor94: hmm, looks like when someone gets banned all their comments are automaticly deleted
Escanor94: hmm, looks like when someone gets banned all their comments are automaticly deleted
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Arcanagos: aww, did i miss the JT party? :(
Arcanagos: aww, did i miss the JT party? :(
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Leet Gamer Jargon: Where's the recent JT bullcrap? Which comments section has he vomited on? EDIT: Nevermind; it's in the "Radio" thread.
Leet Gamer Jargon: Where's the recent JT bullcrap? Which comments section has he vomited on? EDIT: Nevermind; it's in the "Radio" thread.
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BearDogg-X: I wonder what the Metropolitian Moron of Miami said in response to my comment saying that he got a dose of his medicine on the SGC09 Debate thread?
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Posted 07/03/09 at 06:51pm
Rodrigo Ybáñez García: He gets offended with a bunch of flowers.
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Rodrigo Ybáñez García: He warned me to get a lawyer after I called him "crazy by his own choice"... that´s libel for him
Rodrigo Ybáñez García: He warned me to get a lawyer after I called him "crazy by his own choice"... that´s libel for him
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HilaryDuffGta: "libel" what did he threaten now?
HilaryDuffGta: "libel" what did he threaten now?
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Rodrigo Ybáñez García: Was fun to be threatened for "libel" again.
Rodrigo Ybáñez García: Was fun to be threatened for "libel" again.
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HilaryDuffGta: hey so what did i miss??? the usual spam of "crap"
HilaryDuffGta: hey so what did i miss??? the usual spam of "crap"
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FlakAttack: Jack ruined his chance to have civil debates with us here. Glad you banned him (again).
FlakAttack: Jack ruined his chance to have civil debates with us here. Glad you banned him (again).
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Krono: Unexpected is probably the best word to describe it. Particularly as no decent reason is given.
Krono: Unexpected is probably the best word to describe it. Particularly as no decent reason is given.
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That's pretty much what Microsoft did to the Xbox
Great. We need to nail Microsoft to a tree as well. Jack Thompson
Well, you nailed yourself to one without any help from the Florida Bar.
Practice what you preach: Grow up and get a life.
Don't you need to be getting to a shrink about your Narsasistic Personality Disorder?
Kind of hard to do when you pretty much crucified and burnt yourself on the cross, eh Jack?
Hey look, it's Jack Thompson. How're you, good sir?
Who exactly are you again?
Quick question, did you get to this site view Internet Explorer?
Wait, no, you're a big enough douche to use Mac, NVM...
Dude....I don't care how much you hate JT...but leave the macs out of it. They're innocent.
Ditto.
With regards to your current situation, Jack, to quote Solomon Short: "Jesus had it coming. The self-righteous always get nailed."
Right, yeah. Good luck with that.
Figures you'd endorse someone being an asshole.
We? Who is this we?
- Warren Lewis
If only you knew your own middle name.
Your middle initial is B, not E.
lol. he's gone raving mad. He doesn't even remember his own name.
LoL or it's not really him.
Unless, of course, the E stands for egomaniac.
Unless he was going for a Wile E. Coyote joke?
If you're going to foam at the mouth, don't spray it on the keyboard Jack :)
Those who enjoy trolling should thank Jack; pretending to be him online is instant uproar in a can.
OBJECTION!
*Slams desk.*
I have here in my posession a document. A document identifying one John BRUCE Thompson. Also, you'll notince that on a QWERTY keyboard, the B and E keys are on separate rows. The E is normally pressed with the left middle finger, and the B is pressed with the awesomeness that is the left pointer finger. So tell me, witness...
*Points and waves finger at "Jack E. Thompson.*
WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME?!
*Theme music plays.*
Oh great, now Jack is an annoying Mac fanboy.
Looks like the Florida Bar nailed you to a tree.."cough" OWNED "couch"
That's one way to keep the squeelers of Xbox Live.
Now THIS is what I call good parenting.
Agree. Nice to see some parents with spines and a sense of responsibility.
I was thinking just the opposite. This is an example of TERRIBLE parenting that will really come back to haunt them.
Resolving conflict via destroying the kid's playthings? Not only can that mess the kid up a bit but stuff like that can drive a perminate wedge between parent and child which causes all sorts of behavioral problems down the road.
This parent has demonstrated that they can't be trusted to handle a situation like an adult, that they will destroy things the kid cares about if it suits them, and that they ARE the enemy. If this story is real, that parent is going to see an escelation of problems, not a decrease.
Think about this imagry. How would a parent be viewed if they were unhappy that thier daugther was still sleeping with a stuffie and decided to 'fix' the problem by ripping it apart and nailing it to a tree in the back yard? That would be one daughter who would be unlikly to see her parents as people she wants to trust or confide in... in fact, it would be a strong motivation to rebell and act out.
The fact is that there just isn't enough info on the story to really allow us to judge the parent's actions. It could be that his kid was a little shit, and despite a lot of minor to moderate attempts to curve game playing, the message just wasn't getting through. Granted, no matter how much of a prick the kid is, I can't really see myself as able to justify destroying something that would have cost me, the parent, hundreds of dollars in order to make a statement that could possibly be done with less destroying of electronics.
Personally I would have sold it, not waste a good console. But, yes, we don't know how the kids have been behaving, so we really can't judge the parents on this one.
How is this good parenting? Nailing your kids Xbox to a tree isn't good parenting, it's just immature.
"Way to go Honey!"
You just taught the kids how to be a complete jerk to even the closest of family members!
or that there are repercusions for their behavior
If that was the lesson, then the parents obviously never learned it themselves.
Years down the road, this parent will see consiquences for what they did. Sad thing is they will probably just blame the kid rather then themselves. 'We tried all the tough love we could think of but he pull even further away from us! he must just be a bad kid'
So the xbox is sacred. You can't hurt the xbox, cause the kid will now instead of reallizing that they themselves were misbehaving, the parents have no right to take away their video games. It is that kind of rolling over for children, that is causing the whole mess about video game ratings, and the trying to restrict content in video games. Parents refuse to say, NO, NOT IN MY HOUSE.
My mother did the exact same thing to me. Did it create a rift in my family, no. did my parents make a point that i must live by their rules in their house. Yes. guess what, i still talk to her, and we get along great. Whether or not the kid does start harboring ill intentions and feelings long term over this, would actually be a sign of an mental imbalance. And yeah, some kids are just bad kids. Those who want to cover that little fact up are doing more harm than good.
Disclaimer, the above is a statistical example of 1. by itself is useless. Though without any real statistical evidence to the contrary, liberal hippies can shove it.
So your parents took something you cared about (ok, yes it is a game system, but if it was that much of a problem then the kid probably had some investment in it) destroyed it, and then displayed it proudly for you to find?
Glad that didn't hurt your family and that such methods work on you, but put bluntly, if my parents had done something like that then we would have had a SERIOUS problem.
Such methods are a gabit.. parents pull stunts like this that depend on the kid backing down. Brittle larger, show your authority, play a little chicken, and hope the kid backs down rather then escelates the tension.
This is the equivelent of, if the kid is making noise, making more noise to show that you are bigger. Yeah some kids will shut up but others will feel threatened and shout back harder. This isn't mental umbalance on the kid's part, it is a failure of conflict resolution on the parents part, partly because, as the older person, it is the parent's responsiblity to act like, well, and adult.
Actually the took it and broke it right in front of my face.
:"Such methods are a gabit.. parents pull stunts like this that depend on the kid backing down."
Your argument that this method is a gamble fails in that every method of parental discipline is a gamble. Not every child will respond the same to every method. But if you know your kids, you can learn which ones work. Saying things like the parents are "pulling stunts" is you assuming you know those kids better than the parents do, that it won't work with these kids.
True, I will give you that. Most parenting is a gambit (esp when you are playing dominance games).
However, when I generally see stuff like this it is BECAUSE the parents don't know their own kids very well and it usually a symptom of using harsher and more dramatic methods in a spiral that makes the situation worse.
It is great that it worked with you... but just like beating or publicly humiliating kids it is still not a good idea. Gambits have differnt general classes of risk, and this type of stuff is pretty up there since you are asserting domiance via theatrics and intentionally inflicting emotional harm. It can work, but it's a risky way of doing things that you usually see in inexperinced or unaware parents, and it backfires more often then it works.
backfires more often than it works? seriously, got any evidence for that?
Same basic evidence you have.
I watched a lot, watched various problem kids and how they were handled, sometimes effectivly and sometimes poorly. In general ones who's parents took the "I can hurt you so obey or else" generally decayed and became worse over time. Many degraded into rebellion, SI (which was a common side effect of such parents), or general patterns of failure. Most of the time the feeling of powerlessness turned into finding ways to hurt parents back, or finding other people to hurt and regain some level of control
Even times I saw it 'work' the kids endedup pretty broken in subtle ways.. the standard 'abused become abusers' pattern... always struggling with dominance/submission with significant difficulty in constructive conflict resolution.
Parents who found non-escelating methods of displine tended to fair better with problem kids since they defused situations rather then throwing fuel on the fire. These kids tended to actually transition into healthy patterns over time and were better at dealing with difficult situations out in the real word.
So just anecdotal evidence then. like JT's raid on games selling to kids.
Do you think breaking a xbox is better than just taking it away or donating it to charity?
You have to show the kid who's the boss but do you have to teach them to behave like a gorilla?
taking it away, giving it to charity, or breaking. In each situation it is depriving the child from it's use. Sure, giving it to charity may give some people a warm fuzzy, good feeling. You can call it acting like a gorilla, but in the same respect giving it to charity, may in turn be called teaching them to be a thief for the poor.
Unless the children themselves saved money from odd jobs to purchase the XboX (highly unlikely given modern childraising and the picture of the backyard itself), the parents themselves purchased and maintain custody over videogaming apparatus, no? Which would make them less teaching "thieving" (!) and redistribution to the poor, as you suggest, and more proper oversight -- presuming, as others have mentioned, that reasonable conflict resolution approaches have been taken towards making gaming a reasonable element of the childrens' lives and a positive influence. I just take umbrage that donating something valuable to a charity rather than simply brutally destroying it like some sort of luddite nightmare is tantamount to "theft," particularly since you seem to be using the word to suggest that the poor under-class are "thieves" even when they receive donations of alms from the better-off, particularly at a time where, in the united states at least, the disparity in wealth and tax structure between the line-workers and the asset-managers is at an ALL TIME HIGH. Who are the real thieves, and do you make the $5 million per annum that would put you in John McCain's classification of "rich and deserving $350,000 in tax breaks a year," as opposed to the "middle-class and deserving $350 a year back" in the $35k - $65k tax bracker? It's easy to think the poor are all crooked if you're feeding the machine that demonizes them while, au même temps, sucking their blood - you're not the vampire if you pay a hitman to do it, right?
No, you're just the kind of guy whose idea of tough love is beating down and pissing on anyone who isn't in your clique.
Listen to what folks say to you between the lines, and always smile... an armed society is a POLITE society.
You said it yourself, the kid probably didn't pay for it themselves. So either the parents did, and own the xbox and can do what they want with it, or the kid did buy it and giving it to charity would be theiving.
Calling the xbox valuable is laudible in itself.
Blah blah, republican bashing, blah blah wealth disparity, twisting words around blah blah, I need to control how others parent thier children, blah blah.
Yes we can all see your political agenda, and I am some happy you plugged it in here.
Stop...! You're tearing... us... apart...!
*cries*
Now seriously, nailing an xbox to a tree is just plain too much, just think of what those kids will do to their kids. They could have beat them even, but releasing anger on an inanimate object is just inmature.
(and I'm a proud democrat, thank you very much)
LOL
Kid: I can't have my xbox, an inanimate object, so I will now beat my kids.
Parents: OMG we are sorry, here is a new one
Me: /facepalm
Society: /fail
One possible effect of this "gambit" is teaching a bratty kid that if the parent can come and destroy their property with no repercussions, why not destroy the parents' property as well? It was the wrong attitude and likely to have all sorts of bad long term effects.
One possible side effect can encompass just about anything any random kid decides to do after that point. The wrong attitude is, to let the kid keep the xbox when they have repeatedly demonstrated improper behavior while using it. Also, who said the kid owned the xbox? You say it is LIKELY ot have long term bad effects, got any proof. That is how just about everyone I knew was disciplined, and the whole lot of them didn't have these bad long term effects. I know the anecdotal evidence does not a pattern make. But like I said, without evidence to the contrary...
"or that there are repercusions for their behavior"
I don't understand that kind of logic. Children need to learn there are consequences to their behavior, but in this case the consequences are completely artificial: "If you misbehave your Xbox gets nailed to a tree" is a statement entirely devoid of any reasonable logical connections between act and consequence. It's artificial, contrived, and pretty much useless as anything other than an intimidation tactic.
There are no important lessons being learned in such a situation. It's just dumb, mindless chest thumping by an incompetent parent.
I see the logic of, they misbehaved while using the xbox, (connection) the xbox gets removed from the equation. The story says they were repeatedly warned about their behavior. The dad then took action.
How about just taking it away the second time they misbehaved instead of letting it happen for a long time and then just exploding. A strongish action early is better than a explosive action later.
how do you know they didn't do exactly that, or something similar? The story is kind of lacking in the past history department, and alot of people are pretty quick to jump on the "back seat" parenting wagon. Everyone can suggest something, or come along and modify something, rinse repeat, ad nauseam to try and get the best punishment for a given situation, but sometimes saying, "you can't behave yourself with it, it gets removed" is actually the best way.
I said there is no reasonable logical connection between misbehaving and having your Xbox nailed to a tree. A reasonable logical connection would be: if you play with matches you may cause a fire. No such reasonable connection exists in this [now hypothetical] example.
You say this is a way to teach children that their actions have consequences, but since any connection between behavior and outcome is entirely fabricated by the parent, it is absolutely worthless as a life lesson in cause and effect. It is, at best, a way to intimidate your children into obeying you.
Agreed, because contrived consequences just mean that they wouldn't exist when the parents are gone. The kid will know that without parents there will not be any of these kinds of punishments. What might happen is that when the kid moves out of the house, he can go on a big rebellious streak on the assumption that all consequences are orchestrated by a higher authority, and not natural or self-inflicted.
With that nailed to a tree, I have some other things to nail too a tree too:
1. WiiMote that was suppose to have 1:1 motion tracking on console release.
2. Sony Exec. members who thought a higher console price was a good idea.
3. All of EA's Exec. members.
4. All higher ranked staff at EA Tib.
5. Oprah (need I say more)
6. All politicians.
7. All oil company owners, exec. board members, and PR people.
8. Idiots from Microsoft that let the console release with a bad weld so they keep going bad. (3 times for me)
9. Scientologist (need I say more again)
10. EVERYONE at the FRS. (Refer To: Zeitgeist Movie [Though may not be 100% fact, I still want to watch them hang in a tree with a nail their the back fo their suits.])
I would have included Jack Thompson, but I think he has been discredited so much in the past month on this site, that we know he is nothing to even acknowledge ever again. He is a worthless pile of dung, that has always made outlandish accusations because of a psychological problem that he needs to get help for.
Getting nailed to a tree is good. It makes you more like Jesus. Everyone should nail everybody else to a tree. Except who would nail the last guy?
We could build an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine so they can put eachother up.
We just need to figure out how to get the monkey to use the cymbals at the right time...
If it was an original XBox like in the image, who cares? Those things are obsolete anyway. If it was a 360, let's just say the parents are in trouble when the kids get older.
Funny I have played my Xbox more than the 360 the 2 years I had it.Least I didnt have to sell it off for hardware failers.... 0-o
I is fuzzy brained mew =^^=
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You, sir, have no respect for the classics.
I sentence you to be nailed to a tree
HEADLINE
Xbox strung up as punishment for unruly kids, film at eleven.
I is fuzzy brained mew =^^=
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Wait a minute...
I did not know people who watch CNN can submit even more useless stories than the ones that end up on TV or the stories CNN itself publishes on the site. That's a scary thought, considering most of what CNN broadcasts these days isn't so much news as useless trivia.
Least you know what stories are questionable or not on CNN, faux news not so much.
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This is true ever since the invention of the 24-hour news network. There really isn't enough news every day that can take up a full day's coverage, so they stretch it all out, add in a lot of useless fluff, and try to scare the crap out of you any way they can.
The BBC has been doing 24-hours news for decades - they've never had a problem finding enough news each day. Perhaps CNN needs to branch out globally more, and not just focus on USA stories primarily.
Can anybody say bad parenting?
Area Father shows his kids how to throw a proper temper tantrum, Idiot mother thinks it's cute and funny, film at 11...
I saw this the other day, and it's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I don't understand how breaking the Xbox teaches the kids any kind of lesson, and the "way to go honey" expressed positivley, is one of the stupidest responses I can think of. Sure the xbox is old and you can find a used one for 50 bucks or so, but come on, that is good money he just nailed to a tree. What an idiot. If he really wanted to get rid of it, he should have sold it.
Whatever happened to grounding kids? It's as simple as taking the Xbox away for a week or whatever, it's not hard! Those parents are extremely immature for what they did....
Amen
Nipping the problem in the bud the way I see it. I can't imagine that the kids will give him too much crap knowing that if they don't listen their xbox will get nailed to a tree.
I agree that the problem was nipped in the bud, but it was a stupid way of nipping it. Basically the father just brought his level of maturity down to theirs. Like I said, he could have calmly and rationally unplugged the thing, boxed it up and posted on craigslist, or loaded the kids into the car and drove down to gamestop and got his 15 bucks for it. He could have used the trip to explain exactly why the xbox was being sold.
Nailing it to a tree? that is pretty trailer park, and shows alot about why the 3 brats are the brats that they are. Can't solve a problem? Well dad says that ruining perfectly good electronics is an acceptable form of solving them!!!
Hell, he could have donated it to goodwill even, so 3 kids that aren't brats but don't have 50 bucks could play some games. Or donated it to childs play.
"Nipping the problem in the bud the way I see it. I can't imagine that the kids will give him too much crap knowing that if they don't listen their xbox will get nailed to a tree."
Nail what Xbox to a tree? They no longer have one, so it's no longer a bargaining chip.
The metaphorical Xbox. Repeated bad behavior brings dire consequences. Personally, I find it's more effective to take something away permanently than to use it as a bargaining chip, particularly when they're in the preteen years. It reminds me of when I was annoying my sister with an R/C car (my beloved Triple Wheels) and after a while she explained to me that I should have listened then snapped one of the wheels off. It pissed me off and my father was peeved because it cost him good money, but ultimately to this day if she says stop, I stop.
Nailing it to the tree on the other hand is a little bit nuts, but I think it's adds a nice exclamation point.
So instead of the Xbox as a bargaining chip, some other object becomes the bargaining chip: "Don't misbehave or your dad will go nuts and break the next thing you love." At some point, such a strategy is going to backfire. For instance, if that had been my sister I would have broken some of her things in retaliation.
So the argument this time isn't about the children's behavior, but whether destroying their equipment qualifies as good dicipline.
The son is immature so the father is immature....great parenting.....
How long until they buy a 360?
And, how long till its nailed to a tree?
- Warren Lewis
You could also use the RROD as a street light...
I'm not sure I believe this. More likely it was some bored teenager who wanted to get rid of his old Xbox and decided to do so in a way that got him some lawlz.
Seems like an extremely dramatic solution for a problem that can be solved in a different way. I don't care how bratty your kids are - nailing an XBox to a tree is just stupid. Sell it, you get cash for it. Give it to Goodwill or Salvation Army, someone else can play it. Donate it to soldiers in another part of the world, even! It gets the message across in a less dramatic fashion. If this is real, then those parents seem to have a lot of growing up to do - it makes them look like big bullies, no matter what their kids have done.
If it's not real, it's still not funny. It's just a waste of a console and time. (I'm sure some would argue that the XBox was also a waste of a console and time... ...wonk wonk.)
I reported this to Virginia police
I reported this to Virginia Police
I'm not sure if they would care though. I know that you had good intentions, but unless they had made the video on youtube of them beating up the kid, they can't do anything. I am sure though that the father broke a good shitload of enviromental laws though by just throwing out the XBox like that like. He'll probebly get a nice letter and fine when the EPA or some agency like that catches up with him for that one.
Quite honestly, this story does not make any sense. The children were the more mature ones here-even if they yelled in their parent's faces, they didn't destroy anything belonging to the parents to get something done. Adults are supposed to act like adults, namely, not solving their problems with violence unless they are in a war or being attacked by a criminal.
All I can think is "That is one long nail!"
Wonder if any laws were broken (or at least bent) in that childish act? Tell me "dad who nailed the xbox" (henseforth to be known as Loser) did you pay for the system? If you payed for it then it was yours. Do you often destroy things that belong to you in a way to make you look like an idiot in front of the neighbors? Are you just a weakwilled parent that could not find a better way? Did you get your point across? Did you really need to damage a tree to do it?
Funny thing is the kids will probably push Loser into buying another system down the road abit. Well that is assuming Loser is not placed somewhere for the protection of society.
Lol. I did have a less than polite thought. I bet jackie is kicking himself hard for not thinking of going around and nailing up the systems. Oh well. To late now jackie boy, you would just be stealing someone elses idea. Though apparently that has never slowed you down before. Nor apparently has the bending of the laws to fit your personal crusade.
Hmm, I think it would be hilarious if loser actually got in trouble for criminal damage/vandalism to a tree!
Not exactly getting his just desserts (his kid growing up hateful and ruining his reputation by becoming a big ugly bruiser etc) but it would still garner a few lulz
Your soul is a tasty refreshing treat to ones such as I
Well I have some questions to ask because this "article" really doesn't give you much information at all.
1) What exactly is this "behavior" that warranted this sort of drastic, knee-jerk reaction? Was it them mouthing off or cursing at the console, or was it just them being loud and interrupting your afternoon nap? Were they fighting with each other to play on the thing, or were they just yelling loudly while playing with each other?
2) Why not just sell the damn thing instead of destroying it? Even better, donate it. Same effect of getting rid of the machine, only it doesn't make you look retarded for destroying something that cost you $300. It's not like the kids were the ones who bought it.
3) Who the hell encourages this kind of destructive behavior? Maybe if you took a minute to think about the message you're promoting, you might rescind your support. Basically, you are telling your children that, if they get mad or fed up with something, it's okay to go and destroy the source of your frustration. Well, that and also that their father is a petulant infant.
Next time you try to pull an idiotic stunt like this, think before you react. And also, don't broadcast your husband's infantile tantrum on the web where people that use their brains can, and will, mock him.
Next, on CNN iRony:
Parents, sick of their children developing violent tendencies and antisocial behaviour through gaming, destroy their console and nail it to a tree.
Catherine Wheels work better.
If your precious snowflakes are antisocial and violent, blame yourself and stop coddling them, instead of destroying electronics and letting the television babysit them.
I have been a gamer since the age of 13 I am now 30 and I have never gone on a killing spree, but my parents didn't let me sit in front of the television my entire childhood and taught me the difference between right and wrong.
Wait, I'm confused. People on this site have been advocating parental action, and when some parent actually does something, they jump down their throats saying there will be reprecussions down the road. Which is it people? Just because the parents attacked a sacrosanct gaming system, they're suddenly evil? If the kids were so attached to the Xbox to cause serious mental scaring, then the kids are already mentally imbalanced. I, for one, applaud these parents for actually disciplining their kids rather than coddling them.
they disciplined their kids in an immature way. they could have easily set the parental controls to block E-rated games (and by extension, any and all other games since you can't block one age-rating while allowing a higher age-rating) thus rendering the system unplayable without the parental password
岩「…Ace beats Jack」
Probably, but this is a much more graphic, shocking response and thus more likely to stick. I also disagree that this method is immature.
Beating the kids would also be a much more shicking and graphic response.
100% of people who are beat by their parents start first year of college
The response wasn't to ban the kids from playing games. It wasn't even to put the system away somewhere inaccessible or sell it on. It was to destroy something they liked. Without knowing the details behind the story we can't say whether it was a just punishment or not, but on the face of it this teaches the kids one simple lesson:
If you want to punish someone, destroy something they love.
And how exactly do you know the kids were that attached to it? You yourself said we don't have all the facts from the article. My point is that people are going crazy on this site over the fact that someone destroyed an Xbox.
You have three kids who are old enough to be punished by taking away (or in this case destroying) their toys. That probably puts them in 6-12 age range. What kind of kid that age isn't attached to his/her toys?
And this sounds like terrible parenting to me. If this couple had raised their kids properly, they wouldn't have to resort to violent, destructive tactics to scare their kids into submission. These kids should have known to listen to dad when he warned them the first time; the fact that he had to bust an Xbox shows that he's an ineffectual parent. My response would be the same for a busted Xbox as for a shredded teddy bear or dismembered G.I. Joe. Taking away toys is one thing, breaking them is another.
I refuse to believe anyone is that attached to toys.
They're children, not adults. Haven't you ever seen a child carry around a favorite blanket or teddy bear? Kids can become very attached to their toys. Not that adults don't form attachments to inanimate objects. I'm sure you have some possession that you wouldn't want someone to steal or break.
True, we don't know that the kids were attached to the Xbox at all. It's a valid assumption though, because the alternative is just silly. If they couldn't care less about the big black box of doom, then how is nailing it to a tree going to affect them at all?
With regards to the attachment thing, it's worth noting that the Xbox has an internal hard drive. Destroying it doesn't just remove a console from the equation, it removes all of your saved games and records. While it's probably not going to contain anything truly important like family photos and the dissertation you've been working on for nine months, ehe hard drive could still have hundreds of hours of data poured into it.
Indeed, all this really tells the kids is: "Don't fucking disobay me you little twerps or I'll fucking break your shit!"
One day nearly two thousand years ago, a guy was nailed to a tree for saying how cool it would be to be nice to each other for a change.
What the F**k is that?
Oooh, nailing an xbox to a tree! I'm really scared of Mr. Jack Thompson there!
If you call that artwork then I make art work every day by throwing bottles out the window!
You people are ranting on and on about something you don't even know about and making silly judgements about the Dad. This guy did not do this in a fit of anger at his kids. He was interviewed for the local news here in Richmond and it was all in fun. The X-box was his, and didn't even belong to his kids. He nailed it to the tree as kind of a joke because he told his wife for the past 3 years he was going to "nail the xbox to the tree" if the kids kept fighting and swearing whenever he let them play it. He put it up there before his wife got home and wasn't mad at the kids at all. THe wife put the photo up on the net for some friends, and she is not even the one who submitted it to Ireports in the first place. Anyway, it was a first generation xbox that barely worked at all...and the kids weren't "attached" to it because it WASN"T THEIRS in the first place.
*Stands and applauds*
See? People are making waay to big a deal about this thing.
That's why I didn't get involved in this, the article said there was no more information, and there wasn't enough information to make any kind of informed judgement. So I didn't :)
Well, fair enough then. Story pretty much nullified.
There is only one downside I can see to this: He should've sold that! Preferably to me so I can use it for spare parts! I needs me a new DVD drive.
Congratulations on your cruelty. Your kids will never forget this, and will find you a urine soaked hellhole of a nursing home to die alone in when you get old. Paybacks are hell!
"Bad parenting" blah blah blah "immature father" blah blah "charity" blah blah blah "emotional scars" blah " cruelty" blah blah...
There are three kinds of people that disagree with this father's methods:
1. Children.
2. Liberal adults with no children.
3. Unsuccessful parents who are still reading self-help books to keep their kids from turning into the emo, New Age, fruitcake, politically-correct downfall of society.
For the kids' sake, I hope that he spanked them with a belt as well. When my daughter throws her sippy cup, it gets taken away. When she leaves toys all over the floor, they get taken away. Spankings are not common in my house, but they happen.
A broken game console in exhange for teaching children that what Daddy says GOES...a fair swap.
This father is a douch bag and needs to find a better way of parenting rather then DESTROYING their sons video game system that good money was paid for and also harming a perfectly good tree. END OF STORY
^ Child with angst against parents. Waaah! Waaaaahh!!
I'm all for freedom of ttnet vitamin speech and allowing rent a car game makers to put whatever they want in games, but there's one thing about this app that has me scratching my head. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from araç kiralama the previous article araba kiralama on this I gathered that players can use Google maps in-game to find the other (real-life?) dealers in their area. If this is the case, has travesti anyone considered what's stopping someone from using this app to actually move drugs between hands for reals?
But majority araba kiralama of their outrage araç kiralama stems from what it could DO TO children, not the content itself. Talk to one of these people and you'll find they don't think any books kiralık araba should be banned from children. Mention American Psycho and they talk about kiralık araç the redeeming value of using imagination to construct a story. Reading, no matter what the content, is largely viewed as a consequenceless activity for people of any age. The reason why I mention American Psycho is because of the content itself. Gaming never has and likely never will have any scenes where someone has sex with a severed head. Not gonna happen. Yet despite this, they'll fight tooth and nail to protect their children from two boys kissing in Bully but whatever they read is harmless... yeah.
The entire arguement is kiralık oto based upon a social normality inflicted by luddites who can't figure out the controls for Halo so it's frightening and terrifying and obviously the cause of youth violence on the rise even though, in reality, it's in decline (which is actually a HUGE suprise given minibüs kiralama the economies status). In a perfect world, we would have parents that actually parent. The idea of sales restrictions on media on oto kiralama any form to accomidate parental unwillingness to get involved with their child's life is the real problem to me. Here I am, 32 years old, and being held up at a self-scan rent a car needing to show ID before I can buy a $10 M rated game all because Soccer Momthra can't be bothered to look at the crap Billy Genericallystupidson does in his free time. It's too hard for her, so I have to suffer?
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