Father sells his son's xmas present on ebay, LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/******-Hero-III...ryZ62053QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

LMAO, this guy waited for hours and tried for weeks to get his kid guitar hero 3 for x-mas, then he caught him (15 yrs old) smoking pot in his house, so he's selling it. It sold for 9 grand :lol:

I don't feel bad for the kid, when he owns the house, he can make the rules...

Here’s the deal:

So I spent who knows how many hours of my life trying to get “Guitar Hero 3” for the Nintendo Wii for my 15 year old son who has been begging for it since he was born (well not really but he’s wanted it for awhile). So after waiting in lines and going into every game store in the city over the last 2 weeks (practically being laughed at when I asked for guitar hero 3) I finally got lucky and got one at EB Games (they just got a shipment of them 25 minutes before I walked in!).

So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Xmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son.

Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what to I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the backyard with 2 of his delinquent friends.

Now I know santa applies the “naughty or nice” paradigm to determine who gets what on Christmas. My son (Isaac) hasn’t exactly been Mother Teresa this year (he got suspended for fighting in the spring, among other things) but I thought I could still justify getting him this present. Maybe it would make him stay home more and “rock out” on this fake guitar thing. He pretty much spends all his free time at his friend’s house playing it anyways (while high on marijuana, I would imagine).

Anyways, I am now finding it hard to justify rewarding him with this gift after he so greatly disappointed me. I know smoking a joint isn’t the end of the world, but if you can convince me that he deserves the gift, then I will end the auction. You will have to be very convincing. I am an elementary school teacher and I know that rewarding bad behavior is just asking for more of the same…

After I caught him getting high on my patio I did the typical yelling, screaming, kicking out the friends, etc… but I had not decided on a suitable way to punish him. As of the time of me writing this, he does not know I got him Guitar Hero 3. I will show him the auction once it is posted and we can watch it finish together. Sort of a “Father-Son bonding experience”. While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal (well I think pot is still illegal in Canada) drugs on my property.

I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing With the Stars. These games are in stock everywhere I go, and I know he will just love them.

Merry Xmas Isaac. I hope you’ve learned your lesson. –Father.



:lol:

 

id love to see the kids reaction

 

lol @ this

9000 $ for a game, fuck i would put pot in my sons pocket, pretend to find it and frame him for that so i have a reason too :lol:

 

Imagine the amazing REAL guitar/amp setup you could get for 9 grand...

 

Dude... Why are you even here on the hipforums if people smoking pot pisses you off??? Or maybe you don't care about other people doing it, just your son, in which case, I understand perfectly.

 

^^ What???

Lune isn't the "father," he just posted this story here because it's great!!!


lol I'm not sure I entirely understand what the father is doing here, but that's awesome that the brat got his game taken away, and he didn't even know it. But for a game to go for 9k? That is nuts..

 

Smoke less herb. LOL.

I'm such a playa I was hittin' it even when I was 4. :H

 

^ lol

 

Wdf, that 19flower girl is retarded.


That dad found a gold mine *goes and buys all the GH3's*

 

If I happen to see GH3 for sale you better believe Im buying one, I didn't even know people were paying that much (or that it was in demand this much). Hell, even if I could make 20 bucks off it Id be a happy man, let alone something like $8900 :drool:

Sorry Johnny, enjoy your new slinkey and this football. :jester:

 

i understand a goodnatured ribbing for a stupid stoner slipup, but thats a bit much. come on, you're telling me you've never said something dumb before when stoned? i know i've made an ass of myself a time or two

 

i do think this is a funny story though haha....poor kid....

oh well. i mean, he knows his parents well enough to know the rules, i'd imagine, and there are plenty of other places to get high other than his parents' house. thats just bad judgment. while i wouldnt have the same reaction as his father for marijuana if he was my kid, i probably would do something like this if he broke some similarly important rule in my home....different priorities for different parents, i guess. keeping your kids from smoking pot certainly isn't WRONG though, even if i wouldnt mind if i had a teenage kid smoking a joint with some buddies

 

i dunno i thought it was pretty obvious that lune wasnt the father :\. i just woke up to and skimmed through this thread and the ebay auction.

i wonder if that thing sold for so much just because of the story it doesnt seem right. why would anyone pay $9000 when you can go get it at like walmart.com or something for like $150 or less. it sounded like a good punishment for the son but if i was the father and i made like $8900 id be like thanks so for my awesome christmas present. but if im was the kid and seen that auction id be so pissed that it sold for that much.

 

I just found ample GH3's for XBOX 360 in stock the other day and picked up one. They are pretty easy to find for Xbox I dunno what the Wii situation is though and if they are hard to find but I know a bunch of people who have it for Wii and I know they didnt pay more than retail for theirs.

 

I was in target tonight, and I saw like 4 or 5 GH3 on the shelf! I didn't see how much they cost or anything, but I don't think they should be going for so much on ebay if they are still available in the stores. The guy that bought that ebay one must of been super rich that 9k meant nothing to him.

 

Haha, I've had GH3 for like a month, I'm sick of it already, haha. I'm really trying to find Rock Band though and have my parents buy me that for christmas.

If my dad did that, I'd probably just tell him that if he wants to be an ass about something that isn't that bad, then fine.

 

hahaahha

quoted from the auction page: “Jimmy, take your Flintstone vitamins, eat your asparagus, and don’t forget to take your bong-hit”

He understands the effects of smoking and how it can help some people and he agrees that it is not bad. But he said we are far from allowing our kids to smoke for that reason.

 

No way someone would pay $9,000 for a video game that cost less than $100.

 

Yea that was a dumb auction for people to bid on. It is still just GH3.

Well, now I think he will love his son.

 

yeah he seems like a goodnatured guy....with a sick sense of humor and a lesson to teach his son haha