Parenting is Tough....
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After speaking to "Mr. Wood" he said that all the games were rated E or Teen. No M games. Also there were something like 40 games.Bootscooper said:
EDIT: OMG ESCAPIST QUIT POSTING BEFORE I HIT ENTER. Sorry, what I was about to say was:
Police are obligated to try their best to recover items reported 'stolen.' Granted they could have given the items directly to their parents but technically it goes to 'the aggrieved party' they actually could've gotten in trouble for not going and finding those things.
I thought 'gated community' would've tipped people off. Guess not.Jegsimmons said:
The point isn't that they were rich. It's that they were idiots and rude. After speaking to "Mr. Wood" I can assure they are not the type of rich people that make jobs. I don't want to specifically say for someone with good google fu could figure out who they are.
IMO, everyone in America wants a Big Brother government, it's just a matter of what they want or do not want Big Brother to do.Lonan said:
The point isn't that they were rich bu that they were religious nutjobs.
My neighbor's mother did the same thing with all his video games and DVDs (several thousand dollars' worth) once, and he hasn't actually spoken to her once since he moved out.
So I really can sympathize with the kid here. Though admittedly, I'd confront my parents before assuming it was a theft (because, again, stuff like this happens).
My neighbor's mother did the same thing with all his video games and DVDs (several thousand dollars' worth) once, and he hasn't actually spoken to her once since he moved out.
So I really can sympathize with the kid here. Though admittedly, I'd confront my parents before assuming it was a theft (because, again, stuff like this happens).
Jr.'s defiantly a jerk, though given what we know from the story this behavior was most likely learned from his mother and father.
Even if their motives were pure (though I find their morality dubious at best) the underhanded way that they went about it shows that they need to pull the plank out of their own eye before worrying about the speck of sawdust in their son's.
Even if their motives were pure (though I find their morality dubious at best) the underhanded way that they went about it shows that they need to pull the plank out of their own eye before worrying about the speck of sawdust in their son's.
I'd have charged the parents for the theft, or at least the damaged property. And sic a parenting coach on them. They're obviously and willfully at fault for everything that's wrong in this situation.
Kid needs a chill pill but given the situation, I would be pissed too.
Kid needs a chill pill but given the situation, I would be pissed too.
OP: Congrats to your mates on having the patients of saints. I would have dragged the parents down to the jailhouse for a nice sit in the tank with mr.crackhead and mr.Rapist. I can understand feeling like the kid was being a jerk, but really he just does not know the whole story and thus who to aim his ire at.
also: for fucks sake please tell me this couple are now on a government list somewhere to assure they do not have anymore children.
also: for fucks sake please tell me this couple are now on a government list somewhere to assure they do not have anymore children.
And this kind of shit is pretty common? Being called out because a bunch of people are fucking morons?
I mean, I guessed it wouldn't exactly be catching bad guys all day every day, but I figured people would avoid bothering the police for stupid shit because, you know, they're the fucking police.
Thinking on it, I'm not entirely sure why I figured that.
I mean, I guessed it wouldn't exactly be catching bad guys all day every day, but I figured people would avoid bothering the police for stupid shit because, you know, they're the fucking police.
Thinking on it, I'm not entirely sure why I figured that.
If they were poor people you'd have dragged them all down to the station.
/troll. (I kid)
But seriously, the parents are afraid to confront their child? It sounds like somebody has made some terrible decisions up to this point. I actually feel kind of sorry for the kid. He's only the way he is because of how he's been raised.
/troll. (I kid)
But seriously, the parents are afraid to confront their child? It sounds like somebody has made some terrible decisions up to this point. I actually feel kind of sorry for the kid. He's only the way he is because of how he's been raised.
You know what annoys me? Stupid generalisations.
Just say spoiled people. Or at worst spoiled rich people. If a poor person did something like this and I said I don't like poor people, I'd get jumped on by a bunch of liberals and people fro equality and called a bastard and all of this. Please, lets try to keep double standards off of The Escapist, it's one of the few forums I can come on to escape them.
Just say spoiled people. Or at worst spoiled rich people. If a poor person did something like this and I said I don't like poor people, I'd get jumped on by a bunch of liberals and people fro equality and called a bastard and all of this. Please, lets try to keep double standards off of The Escapist, it's one of the few forums I can come on to escape them.
It seems a fair few people here are getting rather high and mighty at the "Rich people" mention.
Well I'd say it'd change the situation a fair bit! If you were living on minimum wage, would you really throw out an Xbox? 'Zactly.
Though I think the title is a bit of a joke. Seeing as a lot of people see police officers as hating a lot of the working class, and sucking up to the Rich.
But that's my view.
Also, you rock.
That's my input.
(Oh, and the whole family are morons. None more than the other.)
Well I'd say it'd change the situation a fair bit! If you were living on minimum wage, would you really throw out an Xbox? 'Zactly.
Though I think the title is a bit of a joke. Seeing as a lot of people see police officers as hating a lot of the working class, and sucking up to the Rich.
But that's my view.
Also, you rock.
That's my input.
(Oh, and the whole family are morons. None more than the other.)
The house where I grew up has a gate, that doesn't make it a gated community. An actual gated community is highly exclusive and prohibitively expensive, with all sorts of neighborhood watch associations and homeowners' associations and people who have nothing better to do than take a ruler to your lawn and get on your case if it's a quarter-inch outside regulations. Usually the idea is to give rich people who don't have anything useful to do someplace where they won't worry about the fact that people who DO have something useful to do resent them; in practice it usually means they worry even more, because not only are they actually advertising their wealth, they're clustered together with other rich people, making thieves' jobs that much easier.Jegsimmons said:
I think if it is a gift, then it legally belongs to the person that they gave it to, unless they can provide proof that the person who recieved the gift promised to pay them back. So technically and legally it belongs to the child. I don't know for certain, but that is how I understand it.Prosis said:
They're all jerks, the parents were slightly bigger jerks, but they seemed to have morphed junior into being a jerk as well. If they had a problem with games and all that "devil stuff" why'd they let it into their house in the first place?
And if they figured that junior would have the reaction he did, then they knowingly wasted the police's time, which is a horrible inconvenience at best.
And if they figured that junior would have the reaction he did, then they knowingly wasted the police's time, which is a horrible inconvenience at best.