Very cruel Prank by parents

[Evil Queen]

http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2008/03...ng-he-got.html

Kid opens X-mas present to discover: OMG! IT'S AN X-BOX 360!!!! YAYAYAYYAYAY!

Only to open the box and discover CLOTHES!

And people wonder why kids grow up to be very angry adults. Pranks aren't fun, Mom and Dad.

[smileyeagle1021]

You know... I have to agree with almost all the comments on that site... this isn't bad because the kid didn't get an x-box... it's bad because the parents took such pleasure in getting his hopes up just to crush them... I think the term justifiable homicide comes to mind if that kid eventually snaps and kills his parents.

[crazylegs]

Line of speech at 1:39

Look at the *camera* and cry

At which point I closed the box.

The adults (to call them parents would vilify the good parents out there) attempt to justify their actions to their child (who is what, 10-12?) by saying 'you know we can't afford an x-box'

SO WHY THE FUCK DO YOU PUT CLOTHES IN AN XBOX BOX?

[Rapscallion]

I tend to do the inverse - two honorary nephews received birthday presents from me last week. Remote controlled helicopters, all wrapped up in Disney princess paper.

Once gave a mate a present wrapped up in cute froggy paper - the Kama Sutra.

Rapscallion

[crazylegs]

I tend to do the inverse - two honorary nephews received birthday presents from me last week. Remote controlled helicopters, all wrapped up in Disney princess paper.

Once gave a mate a present wrapped up in cute froggy paper - the Kama Sutra.

Rapscallion

Now *thats* funny, lowering their expectations before, not after.

[DevilBoy]

I... am... virtually... speechless.

I've received the "joke gift" before when I was a kid.
Big, giant box with something like a pair of socks in it and tons of crumpled newspaper.
However, there was always another 'surprise' gift to counter that one... something I had really wanted and never thought I would get in a million years.

What these parents did was tantamount to child abuse.

[smileyeagle1021]

What these parents did was child abuse.

edited for accuracy and truth

[RecoveringKinkoid]

And this, folks, is why stupid people are capable of doing far, far more damage than evil people ever dreamed of.

Although, as we see here, when you have evil people who are stupid too, everyone around them is just well and truly fucked.

How that sorry, semi-sentient ct could sit there and bear that look on her child's face boggles my mind. I can't bear it, and it's not even my kid.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I went to YouTube and found the video. The submitter, who is apparently the child's brother, said he got caught peeking at his presents before it came time to open them, and he did get the xbox 360 in the end.

Not that this excuses this cruel excuse for a prank. There are more than a few things wrong in this family and I don't know what disgusts me more: the parents doing this to their child as a prank or way of teaching a lesson, or the brother posting the video on YouTube so the whole world could watch him cry.

[Caveat Emptor]

My mom saves a lot of boxes including old clothing ones, and she is very good at wrapping and packing so if something comes in a clothes box, we don't know if it is clothes or CD's or books or what!

[tropicsgoddess]

Wow...that's just mean. You can bet that kid would shove off his folks in a home when they get old...or off them and end up in prison.

[XCashier]

The Weekly Vice said... It's not really even about the xbox...or a material thing... it's more the principal of crushing someone's spirit needlessly...

Quoted for truth. And the parents were laughing at his unhappiness. Sick.

We can only hope he learns the right lesson, and doesn't do to anyone else what his parents did to him.

My mom saves a lot of boxes including old clothing ones, and she is very good at wrapping and packing so if something comes in a clothes box, we don't know if it is clothes or CD's or books or what!

My mom did the same thing, putting gifts into boxes that once held something else, but she always told us to disregard the box. That way, when we opened the wrapping, and looked confused at the box for a blender, we'd open the box and discover the toy or radio or whatever it was that we really wanted inside. No hurt feelings that way.

[Ree]

I went to YouTube and found the video. The submitter, who is apparently the child's brother, said he got caught peeking at his presents before it came time to open them, and he did get the xbox 360 in the end.

Yeah, if you go directly to the video on YouTube, you can read that disclaimer.
"My mom decides to buy my brother an Xbox 360 for christmas. We leave that night and return the next morning to find he has sneaked a look....just as my mom thought he would, this is the result...and yes he did get the game i will try to post the second video"

He supposedly peeked at his gifts, so his parents were trying to teach him a lesson, and he supposedly did get the X-Box 360 after all. (We just have his word on that, so we don't really know. I don't see the second video.)

It still broke my heart to see the expression on that little boy's face and have them all laughing at him like that.

Emotional abuse, anyone?

[Binky]

that poor kid! honestly, that's really really nasty!

I mean, I've had jokes but they've always been the other way around. FH gave me PS2 games but they had different covers. All games I would hate. Was funny when I figured it out....

But to set up the kids hopes then cut them down! so so cruel!

[AnqeiicDemise]

I got the same prank pulled on me when I turned 16.

All I wanted was a television that wasn't broken (mine had the image sideways). What I got was the box for a new television....

stuffed to the gills with clothes.

GIRLY clothes. Pink and blue and frilly and....

And this was given to a 16 year old goth.

i didn't cry, but boy, was I pissed.