SC's trading kids for PS3's

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

No I'm not although I wish to the Goddess that I was.

Click this link for details (http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/16069842.htm?source=rss&channel=twincities_entertainment)

Basically a radio station as a gag offered a free PS3 in exchange for the parents to give up their child for 24 hours.

People took them up on the offer and were dumbfounded when they were informed that it was a gag.

I swear I'm telling you I have a solution. Give everyone a gun and a punch-out card that allows you to shoot 6 people without fear of reprisals. You kill someone and one slot on the card gets punched.

What will happen is the people with common sense will go into hiding while truly stupid people in the world will slaughter themselves in an orgy of destruction. Then when we finally outnumber the stupid [censored]ers we'll wipe them the rest of the way out of the gene pool.

Mongo

[TNT]

When I hear stories like that I always think of a Dilbert cartoon... I really wish I could find the actual text, but it goes something like this:

Dogbert: The president should order everyone to march into the ocean. The stupid people will do it. Then the people smart enough not to do it get to divide up the stupid people's stuff.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Dogbert: The president should order everyone to march into the ocean. The stupid people will do it. Then the people smart enough not to do it get to divide up the stupid people's stuff.

I call dibs on the Wii

[erik316wttn]

I'll gladly trade some of the screaming brats who come in my line for a Wii.

[Hempress]

:wtf: No way would I trade my son for anything. And a two day old?! They need their mommy's milk! Holy crap.

[Becks]

Some people's priorities... :eek:

[Geek King]

I would trade children for a PS3! Er...do they have to be mine?

[Rapscallion]

I've started to pass this around at work. Three dropped jaws and one resigned shrug so far.

Rapscallion

[LdyJedi]

These people are PARENTS?!

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[Rahmota]

*sigh* Just when I think I am getting too cynical and bitter about humanity, something like this comes along to show me I'm not even close to being cynical enough.

:(

[Spiffy McMoron]

I was doing OK with the article, and then I read the part about "Katie" phoning back to ask whether or not she's getting a PlayStation. Then I got scared and depressed. :o

[Myra]

I was doing OK with the article, and then I read the part about "Katie" phoning back to ask whether or not she's getting a PlayStation. Then I got scared and depressed. :o
Exactly. That is just stupid beyond reason. I thought I'd seen just about everything when it comes to stupidity. I should know better.

[Seanette]

Might be rather vicious of me, but if I'd been at that radio station, I might well have been alerting CPS or equivalent to some seriously negligent and otherwise screwed-up parents.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Unfortunately, it could always be worse. A woman in Ohio was arrested either this week or last for microwaving her baby daughter to death.

Yes, in a microwave oven.

Never assume that humanity has hit bottom -- they'll prove you wrong every time.

[Rahmota]

Yes I heard about that. My earlier comment still stands, I'm not cynical enough.

Apparently she did the crime last year but they had to do some forensic research and all to make sure about the how and all.

A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, of Dayton, Ohio, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set at $1 million

[ArenaBoy]

In Michigan a few years back there was a lot of news about this mother who abandoned her 1 month old baby by leaving the baby in a trashcan. I remember reading somewhere that California IIRC has this policy of leaving your child at a firestation or some other form of emergency help if the parents no longer want the child anymore but within a certain time period. Leaving a baby in a microwave however just sickens me.

Never assume that humanity has hit bottom -- they'll prove you wrong every time. HauntedHeadNC

May I use that as a sig?

[Antisocial_Worker]

May I use that as a sig?

Go crazy. I don't mind at all.

I think we can all think of people from our respective locales who have done horrible things to their children -- I know I can. It was truly awful, and an image that sticks in my mind was a picture in the newspaper of the county sheriff carrying the casket down the aisle at First Presbyterian, weeping.

A lot of us have witnessed our customers doing bad things to their children. Some of us have even stopped customers from doing these things.

The important thing is that no matter how burned out we all get at our jobs, and from dealing with people every day, some things should always be able to cut to the quick and appall us. We should always manage to dredge up some righteous indignation for something that truly deserves it and not for the petty bs our customers get het up about.

[lordlundar]

Every time I think humanity couldn't possibly dig themselves any deeper, they bring in a backhoe.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Every time humanity hits rock bottom, they grab the drills and the explosives and start all over again.

It's actually getting to the point where every time I watch the news I start wishing for an asteroid, plague, nukes, alien battle fleets, divinity induced global flooding or something to wipe out the majority of the population of this planet just so the survivors can get their shit together and start again...hopefully getting it right this time.

Oh well, I hope the cockroaches get it right when it's their turn.

[Cia]

I stopped watching the news - it's done wonders for my blood pressure.

[ArenaBoy]

I told one of my friends about this, bad idea to tell her in a restaurant she pretty much gasped quite loudly and I got a jaw drop. Honestly, these are people who somehow get the high-paying jobs also and various other treasures. I'm just about ready to give up on humanity right now.

[BlakeMP]

Amazing. They really will let just anybody have kids...

[XCashier]

Amazing. They really will let just anybody have kids...
There's no "letting" here, people will have children if they can. There's no way to license it without stepping all over other people's rights.

Still, it's a sad situation that some parents would seriously consider trading their child for a stupid video console. How sick is that?!

Yes, it's true that some parents have no business being parents. There was a story here not long ago about a father who beat his two-year-old daughter and stuffed her in the toy box because she interrupted his video game playing. She suffocated. :( http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2006-05-18/news/feature.html

[Severen13]

I'd weep for the state of humanity, but that would be an exercise in futility.

[symposes]

Hmm, 1 day of FREE daycare, and you get a PS3 too.

Thats what it sounds like to me.

But then again, maybe im missreading the, give child away for 24 hours, part.

[Ree]

Hmm, 1 day of FREE daycare, and you get a PS3 too.

Thats what it sounds like to me.

But then again, maybe im missreading the, give child away for 24 hours, part.Hmm...how quick would you be to give your car away to a perfect starnger for a day for free detailing or cleaning, and also have the promise of a PS3 at the end of that day?

What if they asked you to just hand over the keys to your house for 24 hours and let them have free reign in it to clean, with the promise of a PS3 the next day?

What about handing over heirloom jewellery or even just regular jewellery to strangers for cleaning, again with the promise of a PS3?

Kind of changes the perspective a bit, don't ya think?

But then, I guess it's different with kids. Hey, it's free daycare, and they couldn't possibly get hurt. :rolleyes: :p