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Game-addicted kid breaks vacuum; Mom sells Xbox

xsynergyx | April 14, 2008 | News | XBOX 360 
A 13-year old from Virginia was told to do his chores instead of playing his Xbox. In anger, he broke the vacuum cleaner, hoping this would opt him out from doing chores. Instead, his mom took the Xbox and all his games and put it up for sale online. Before doing that, she checked his cookies and guess what the kid was looking up on the internet? Pornography. Now the kids in trouble. To top it off, the mother pranked his MySpace page by putting a picture of Snoopy as his profile picture. Brilliant, mom, brilliant.
My 13 year old managed to break the vacuum....thinking it would release him from that duty. He also has a list of other chores that were TYPED up for him to do Friday afternoon....one thing on the list was done...mind you these are simple things...empty the trash, clean your room, etc. Then I go thru the cookies on his computer and find out he has been checking out porn sites. Now there is a password so he can't even get on and his my-space page has a picture of snoopy on it now. Apparently I'm the meanest mom in the world, were his words.

I'm a single mom. I can't let them walk over me or I might never get up.
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  • -2 thumbs!
    Chris7689 | April 15, 2008
    talk about harsh punishment. she should just hide the xbox in her car or w/e instead of selling it. what a waste of money on her part.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Ekou | April 15, 2008
      Understand the full concept behind this, it means one less 13 year old on Xbox Live.
      • 0 thumbs!
        Chris7689 | April 16, 2008
        haha very true. seems like your 13 years old with the power ranger pic though lol.
    • -1 thumbs!
      Armed Rebel | April 16, 2008
      Yeah what a waste of money, she should have not SOLD the 360 and just used money from her pocket to buy a new vacuum/fix it instead of the money from the sold xbox. What a dumb mom.
      • 0 thumbs!
        Chris7689 | April 16, 2008
        like a fixing a vacumm or getting a new one would cost that much. at first i thought u were serious then i read it again and realized the sarcasim lol. but seriously props to her anyway cause that was some creative punishment.
  • 5 thumbs!
    InnerDemon | April 15, 2008
    Woohoo. Go mom. Teach kids to respect their elders every now and again. Maybe a little far, but I think the kid deserved it to be honest. =/

    And maybe not sell it. Give it to a friend and say you sold it.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Guticb | April 15, 2008
    That little brat deserved it.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Atsumi | April 15, 2008
    I think that kid needs anger management if he broke a vacuum just to get out of doing chores.

    I would never disrespect someone's property like that. He deserved to have his 360 sold.

    I hope the mother got a really nice vacuum for it too!
  • 4 thumbs!
    Jak66 | April 15, 2008
    Thank god! That's one less annoying kid taken off of Live.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Seproth | April 15, 2008
    lol, 13 year old looking up porn?! Shocking I'm truly aghast!

    Seriously though, I wonder if he just broke the vacuum like kicked it...or if he like sucked up some shit and "accidentally" broke it. Just seems to me like you could at least make it look like an accident.

    I'm with Chris though...what if he's a perfect little angel now and she wants to reward him? If she gets him another 360 she's lost a good chunk of money.

    IMO, respect should be earned based on performance not given...I've never bought into that respect your elders bullshit. In this case I think she's earned plenty though...Very impressive deciding to *bleep* with his myspace
  • 0 thumbs!
    chautemoc | April 15, 2008
    Hahaha, reminds me of the time when I was a kid and saturated my supper in pepper to get out of eating it. My mom made me eat it.
  • 0 thumbs!
    theundertakergonzo | April 15, 2008
    Well as slack as it does sound this is outright hilarious. Teaches the kid to do his cores, heck we all have chores and we all have things we like to do. The kid needs to pull his head in.
  • 5 thumbs!
    tekmosis | April 15, 2008
    haha, she actually sounds like a cool mom. Snoopy? lol old school embarrassment, what is now these days that's embarrassing? teletubbies? bob the builder? :S

    Anyways, this little brat deserved every little bit of it. I hope she got some new, state of the art vacuum from the funds the kids 360 brought in.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Storm | April 15, 2008
      Bob the builder. xD

      That mom sought out justice, and pretty much brought the hammer down, well done with discipline. Parents must take note!
    • 0 thumbs!
      Final Blade | April 15, 2008
      Teletubbies and Barney to be honest. Bod the builder isn't really embarrassing, just stupid.

      Thank god this kid leaves the world of online. Its one of the many things i had to deal with playing XBL over my friends house(spoiled, bratty and foul mouth kids). Although it made epic lulz when my friends retorted back at people like him.

      You Mother are a legend, teach this kid what respect is all about. If i did that to my mom or to my grandmother i would get the shit beat out of me.
  • 1 thumbs!
    xsynergyx | April 15, 2008
    That kid should've just *bleep*ing did his chores and help out his mom, especially because she's a single parent.

    This reminds me of a mom that got facebook banned in a whole area because she didn't like her kid interacting on that site. Now that's a horrible move on her part. Her son or daughter is done for and all because of her mom. He or she must be hated all around that area. This is just an example of the opposite of this...sort of.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Gamesta100 | April 15, 2008
    His mother's a legend lol.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Gothic Girl | April 15, 2008
    An eye for an eye. The mum can't use her vacuum cleaner, now the kid can't use his Xbox. Good on her.
  • 4 thumbs!
    TurMoiL911 | April 15, 2008
    The little bastard deserves it. Be grateful, you little asshole. Your mother works a job at least five days a week to pay for your god damn 360. Have the courtesy to lighten the workload at home by vacuuming the house.

    It'd take 30 minutes to do the whole house, tops. Then you can go back to your Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 game and get owned for being a little bastard.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Rusty Bucket Boy | April 15, 2008
    What a little brat...

    Is his mom still selling it? It's probably cheap.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Kokoro | April 15, 2008
    That's really harsh to sell his XBox 360 and all his games for that.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Zeon I | April 15, 2008
    lol, he broke the vacuum. Little idiot deserves it, tbh.
  • 0 thumbs!
    StarJet | April 15, 2008
    Poor 360.
    360 > Vaccum Cleaner.
    Anyway, that idiot shouldn't have broken the vaccum cleaner so that he can stay off chores. What an idiot.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Xenctuary | April 15, 2008
    Stupid child. Cool mum.

  • 0 thumbs!
    RikuNova | April 15, 2008
    Lol, although this is a bit harsh, I still think that the little brat totally deserved it.

    I wonder if it's still on sale now...
    • 0 thumbs!
      Seproth | April 15, 2008
      Yeah, but then it's over. This kid now has to earn enough money to get a 360 and his games back.

      Probably at least $500 worth of stuff. I'd take an ass whoopin for $500 wouldn't you?

      oh shit, I meant to reply to bbb not you riku...use your imaginations gamegrep =P
  • 0 thumbs!
    bbb7002004 | April 15, 2008
    A bit harsh? If I did anything remotely close to that when I was a kid, my parents would have beaten me within a half inch of my life. This kid got off easy.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | April 15, 2008
    quote
    A bit harsh? If I did anything remotely close to that when I was a kid, my parents would have beaten me within a half inch of my life. This kid got off easy.
    Remind me to never come over to your house
  • 0 thumbs!
    Big Willie | April 15, 2008
    This could only be better if she showed up the next day with a dvd for the kid to say she was sorry only for him to be rickrolled when he played it.
  • 0 thumbs!
    tidus04 | April 15, 2008
    At least im sure he will do the chores next time though ^^
  • 3 thumbs!
    kik36 | April 15, 2008
    Good for her. She's absolutely right, if you let the little bastards run over you, they will continue to do so well into their 20's. Perfect solution to get the money for replacing that vacuum if you ask me.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Zero and X | April 15, 2008
    Lol, now thats a mom! Gotta keep your pimp hand strong on these little devils, your the boss, not them, they need to be shown this or they will think otherwise and do w/e the hell they want.
  • 1 thumbs!
    reaver11 | April 15, 2008
    Finally! A parent that decides to discipline her child without violence! Great job mom! You deserve some type of praise, so here's one from me. Kids these days have no respect. Its time parents started stepping in and showing who's really the boss.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Donnelly | April 15, 2008
    That little shit got what he deserved tbh.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Ncjpr1993 | April 15, 2008
    Ha ha ha, if I were that kids mom I would do worse than rid him of his Xbox, maybe I would rid him of his life, or make him eat the worst food I can think of for a few months. His mom is awesome!
  • -1 thumbs!
    Kokoro | April 16, 2008
    Wow, I get 2 thumbs down for giving my opinion on this? I know most of you thinks he deserved it, but I strongly disagree and I honestly think it's pretty harsh. Just taking away his XBox 360 for a little a while would be a better punishment. Yes, he shouldn't have broken the vacuum and looking up porn. But selling his XBox 360, his games and putting a Snoopy picture in his MySpace page is just mean!
    • -1 thumbs!
      Ncjpr1993 | April 19, 2008
      Ncjpr1993 gave you a thumbs up! Not so much that I agreed with your opinion, but it was more because you don't deserve thumbs down for giving your opinion.
  • 2 thumbs!
    FFXFREAK | April 16, 2008
    WOW this mother is epic. She also screwed over her son quite nicely . The kid deserves it though why would you break the vacuum cleaner to get out of chores. That's just dumb T_T.

    ~FFXFREAK
  • 0 thumbs!
    Bri | April 16, 2008
    Amazing and epic fail at kid for not clearing his history. When you're dealing with shady pages or for general privacy practices (Do you want Johnathan Smith looking at your bank account?), it's always best to keep things clean.

    And of course, an eye for an eye. Break the vacumn, you gotta pay for it.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Vermillion | April 19, 2008
    Who doesn't love to see mothers who over react at things? Honestly, there was no need to do this. If you think your children will NEVER look at pornography and get into the "Age Of Rebels", then you are screwed.

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