Kids these days are not that hard to buy for during the holidays. They know what they want, and they are NOT afraid to ask for it. The same was true for a Canadian teenager, who desperately wanted a video game for his Nintendo Wii gaming system. The game was the highly sought after Guitar Hero III. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it is an exciting interactive game in which the user holds a guitar and plays a song from the interactive screen, while following along with the color coded keys on the guitar. Points are earned from each note that is correctly keyed while playing along. (The Gorilla has actually seen this game and LOVES it! It’s just too bad that his fingers are too big to play with it.)
The game is definitely hard to get your hands on, but the father of the teen thought that his son deserved the almost $90 game and so he went out and purchased it for the boy. Last week however, the boy was caught smoking pot in his backyard with some friends, so the father proceeded to take the necessary measures. To punish him, the father decided to auction off the beloved video game on eBay. The man, who is a schoolteacher, stated that he found it hard to justify giving the son this game as a gift when the boy’s behavior was so inappropriate. (Now that’s called hitting em’ where it hurts!)
The man alerted potential buyers of the unusual situation and bidders were more than sympathetic with the man. So sympathetic, in fact, that a buyer in Australia even ended up purchasing the game for over $9,000! Wow! Now that’s a punishment that benefits everyone involved! So the kid smoked pot (unacceptable to be sure) but folks, at this point, how mad can the guy really still be? As angry and frustrated as this father was with his young son’s behavior, the Gorilla is pretty certain, the whopping $9,000 he made selling the kid’s game as punishment quickly got him over it. Happy holidays!
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Man bites man August dog day story.
Come on? $9000.00?