Saturday, December 22, 2007

Would Taking Away Your Christmas Gift Convince You to Stop Smoking Pot?


What do you do when you come home from work early only to discover your 15-year old son smoking weed? Sell his beloved Christmas gift, of course.

At least that's what one Canadian father did. In a public, rather humiliating eBay auction that ended up selling for o $9,000 after an intense bidding war, a dad sold his son's copy of Guitar Hero III for the Wii - a burdensome game to track down this time of year - to punish him for lighting up a joint with his "delinquent" (as the auction author describes them) buddies.

Although there's a large chance that the story provided on the auction page is a bogus gimmick (and the fact that the vast majority of the bidders were newly registered members who kept continuously adding money just for kicks, and not to actually pay), it is an intriguing conversation piece nonetheless. Hey, I've seen auctions similar to this in the past, and they always seem to attract tons of attention. Still, if your auction gets over-run by jokers who will just keep bidding only not pay in the end, do you really want that type of attention?

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4 Comments:

At 5:08 PM, Blogger The Sports Satirist said...

It does look like this is a fake story. Who the hell would spend that much money on a game? He should have just sold the marijuana.

 
At 5:05 PM, Blogger fatherkrishna said...

Fantastic tale Ross! I do hope it's true! Merry Christmas mate!

 
At 12:55 PM, Blogger Ross said...

Thanks guys! Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you guys got some nice gifts... possibly games... I sure did!

 
At 10:44 PM, Blogger The Sports Satirist said...

Don't celebrate Christmas but thanks anyways. Happy Holidays to you.

 

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