From the You-just-can’t-make-this-crap-up department:
Penalty for unwrapping gifts early: Arrest
A mother convinced Rock Hill police to arrest her 12-year-old son after he unwrapped a Christmas present early.
The boy’s great-grandmother had specifically told him not to open his Nintendo Game Boy Advance, which she had wrapped and placed beneath the Christmas tree, according to a police report.
But on Sunday morning, she found the box of the popular handheld game console unwrapped and opened. When the boy’s 27-year-old mother heard about the opened gift, she called police.
“He took it without permission. He wanted it. He just took it,” said the 63-year-old great-grandmother.
Waldrop said he was not aware if Rock Hill police have ever arrested a child for unwrapping Christmas presents early.
“Yeah, it’s strange,” he said of the case.
Ya think?
Men, someone’s edgy. I wonder why?!?!?!?!?!
He’s edgy because the PS3 sucks. The kid would have left that in the wrapper until next Thanksgiving.
#21 & #22
I’m edgy, because I live in a nation with people surviving with a dollar or less and sometimes certain shallow comments just tick a nerve.
So do I, and you know what? the most responsible persons for them living in those conditions beside the corrupt crop of politicians (who come from among them) are themselves.
I can serve you a couple of recent histories to that effect, would you like to hear them?
24,
So a kid growing up in a depressed community with shitty schools and very little opportunity for advancement and self-improvement and parents who don’t know how to parent is responsible for his delinquency? I would say he has a role, but it is a small one
#25…Smartalix….I think 24 is responding to 23….it’s sort of ***my country is more piss poor than your country…*** kind of thing.
Pedro….aren’t you from Venezuela? Thats a pretty wealthy country with a piss poor system of asset distribution (ooops, there’s that word again).
Angel….your from Honduras…..that is one hell hole of poverty and I can see why you might be a bit offended by hearing people talk about meaningless gifts when food, clothing and medicine is just a dream to so many people where your from.
Mom took our presents away the year we opened then also. Never did that again.
The only problem comes when as in the POST about Rich getting richer, is that the Poor HERE are almost as bad off as some other countries.
For the Richest nation in the world, we REALLY dont treat the poor very well.
If our medical Poor system would FIX a few of the poor, insted of feeding them drugs until they DIE of something…As in..FIX my knees so I can walk better and work, I PROBABLY wouldnt be on SSI..
FIX it dont patch it.
Even state medical services dont do major surgery, unless its life threatening.. they Wont Fix anything unless is Bad, then you get 3rd rate doctors.
#26 spot on right. On all accounts I may add.
Smartalix: you’re right too. I agree in this point with you more than you think. The problem is that 1) I’m a very cryptic person, so I tend to leave some things up for interpretation wrongfully thinking people will get them 2) my last post may have been misunderstood because we are talking poor parenting here and I was answering (like joshua said) to angel. I was not referring that the reason why people steal is because they are poor and they cannot do better. t was more on the lines of “dumb breeds dumb that bits dumbs in the behind”.
This is a subject I believe for a bigger debate and no, the examples I was going to bring up were not related on poor people stealing, but why they are still poor. Sort of why white trash will be white trash, no matter what (with small exceptions, of course)
I’m sure that kid was really disappointed when he found out it was a GBA.
That kid should sue his granny for getting him OLD gamer technology. Game Boy Advance that’s so 2002. Why didn’t Grandma get him a Nintendo DS? It plays all the old GBA games. Sue grandma for being retarded or a cheapskate.
So, I guess the police are supposed to clean up the mess made by bad parenting? Seems pretty childish. Oh well: At least he wasn’t beaten to death on the way to jail. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/423466/821545
I would have said, “Ok, kiddo…enjoy your early Christmas present but you don’t get to open the game cartridges until the 25th.”
Calling the police over this is really dumb. It amazes me how overreactive and underintelligent some people can be.
#29
No worries because I have the same problem, when I try to be funny people get mad at me.
And to those whose mother took away those gifts you peeked before Xmas… I hope you guys (and gals) are part of the writing staff from Malcolm In the Middle
Who is the Idiot here? seems it may be you for putting it on the Mom DUH
This kid is out of control and you call the Mom an Idiot for seeking help? I do Not agree that the kid should be charged but the gam system should go back to the store and let the kid stew over that for a while.
that is just wrong over a christmas present i hope the mother knows how the son will hate her when he gets out and officers should not arrest the kid if it is not against the law .police and mothers make no sense today .and you are gonna listen to an old woman.
So….why exactly did this kid know what he was getting?
“The boy’s great-grandmother had specifically told him not to open his Nintendo Game Boy Advance,”
Why would she tell him what it is, to get him all excited, knowing how rambunctious (sp?) and care-free the kid is, then place it under the tree?
This statement right here is what boggles me.
why the heck would somone do that!!!! WTF????
what tha hell!!!!!!!
i used to hav a gba and it sucked wen tha gba sp came out then tha ds but still, i wouldn’t open a stupid gba i would leave it till next christmas!
and anyway why did his grandma tell him what his present was?
it ruins tha suprise plus it adds mpre urge to open it so you can she the new shiny present sitting/waiting for you to open
in my opinion the grandma is a evil sibyl (witch from arctic)
and the mother is a sicko she must have been 15 when the kid was born!!!, thats younger than my sister!!!!
plus i am 12 (neva opened pressy early) with 2 sistaz and one bro
ps: the pic at tha top is obvioulsy fake cuz a 12 yr old cant grow a beard!
I agree totally. I have a now 15 year old and he is on the edge of total delinquency. I wouldn’t hesitate a second to turn him in. I am a single mom and he is getting 1 big present this year. ($40) I have a couple of smaller things for him but that is all he is getting and I have struggled to get that for him. I want him to have the surprise of Christmas day. He boasts daily about how he is going to open them when he wants to and theres nothing I can do about it. Wrong! They all go back! I have every receipt and the police on speed dial. I aplode her.
Take a look at the whole story! It seems that this mom was having constant problems with this child. People seem quick to point a finger at others with only a portion of the story. The boy lied about the open gift, then recanted the story. From The WHOLE?! story reported, the boy was constantly in and out of trouble and this was the last straw. Todays society wants to blame others for their actions. ACCEPT resposibilty for what you do. Sure the mom has some resposibility for the boys actions, but try to be a single parent raising you child. The boy at some point needs to accept the repercusions for his behavior and learn that there can be serious conseqences for what you do. Do not be quick and blame bad parenting or any thing else because we do not have ALL the facts. There are other ways that she could have dealt with the problem. She did what she felt was right. Lets see what you would do if you were at your wits end, and you had to correct a disobedient child. Everyone seems to have a solution, but you were not there.