Parents Offer To Trade Kids For PS3
Are you freaking kidding?!
A Minnesota radio station host, as a random practical joke on his show, offered a free Playsation 3 to listeners who would be willing to turn over their children to the station for 24 hours.
I’m sure a number of you can already see this situation going somewhere horrible rather quickly.
The station was swamped with calls from people who were all too willing to fork over their kids in order to get a free PS3:
Children offered included a one week and two day old baby. One caller named Katie attempted to get a PS3 by offering her 1 month old up for a 3 day period. When informed it was a hoax, she responded in disbelief.
Dave Ryan went onto say in an article,”But I didn’t want them to feel too badly. I said, ‘Listen you’re not the only one who fell for this’. But at the same time, think about it, these are your kids, these are the most precious responsibility you’ll ever have in your entire life. Be careful with your babies.’ “
This is insane. If I’d been in Ryan’s shoes, I would have taken down every person’s name and address and then turned their contact info over to social services.
Parents Nearly Trade Kids for PS3s [PS3 Land]
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Posted to on 7 December 2006
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Look at this from a parent’s perspective:
Free PS3
Free babysitter for a full day
It’s not like this would have been a permanent trade.
On the other hand, Dave Ryan is a crappy DJ for a crappy radio station that has a long history of playing 95% crappy music. If this story could in any way be used to make him look bad, I would be all for that.
Given that my idea of pure Hell is parenting, if I were saddled with a rugrat I’d offer to make the trade permanent, myself.
Wow, I totally wrote an article on this for my application to be a writer on this site! Still have yet to hear on that…
I think that dude needs to trade his kid for a Wii instead…. or at least a DDR pad…. or anything resulting in cardiovascular activity without making more kids.
Not saying I wouldn’t do him, just saying there are three other food groups besides fried chicken.
Sorry, I need to go throw up a little now.
Pathetic examples of American values at work. Shame on all of them. These are the people who are passing laws making our lives harder to live. When these parents showed up with their kid the station should have beaten them senseless (wouldn’t take long) with the PS3 they cherish so much. Sad!
I never want a kid of my own, but even if I had one, I wouldn’t trade the kid in for the PS3. It’s retarded and dangerous because I do not know the DJ and what person says ‘Hey, let me watch your kid and I’ll give you a system!’ Kinda suspicous. These same parents are probably willing to let Micheal Jackson watch their kids for a PS3 too.
License to fish and hunt, get married(for those who aren’t legally banned from it, thanks Tennessee), yet no license to be a parent? Let’s put that for a vote in Congress. Anyone who would trade their child for a PS3, or anything for that matter, should lose their licence and the child given to someone who would protect and care for them. Free babysitter is one thing but a DJ at a radio station? On a babysitter related note I used to manage a movie theatre, you wouldn’t believe the number of people who drop their 8-13 year olds off with $10 for a cheap sitter for 2 hours, especially during the Holidays..
Oh, I work at Wal Mart, in the electronics department, which people apparently think is a FREE daycare center. I’ve seen kids left there unattended for upwards of 5 hours before.
Yeah, license to have kids sounds like a good idea.
Oh, and I sadly live in Tennessee, so yay being a second-class citizen.