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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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
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^ Child with angst against parents. Waaah! Waaaaahh!!
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"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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Well, fair enough then. Story pretty much nullified.
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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 :)
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*Stands and applauds*
See? People are making waay to big a deal about this thing.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Indeed, all this really tells the kids is: "Don't fucking disobay me you little twerps or I'll fucking break your shit!"
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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.
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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.
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I refuse to believe anyone is that attached to toys.
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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.
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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.
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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」
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Probably, but this is a much more graphic, shocking response and thus more likely to stick. I also disagree that this method is immature.
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Beating the kids would also be a much more shicking and graphic response.
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100% of people who are beat by their parents start first year of college
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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.
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Catherine Wheels work better.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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All I can think is "That is one long nail!"
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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.
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I reported this to Virginia Police
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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.
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I reported this to Virginia police
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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.)
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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.
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How long until they buy a 360?
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And, how long till its nailed to a tree?
- Warren Lewis
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You could also use the RROD as a street light...
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The son is immature so the father is immature....great parenting.....
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So the argument this time isn't about the children's behavior, but whether destroying their equipment qualifies as good dicipline.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.