And the age requirement for R rated movies is 17. How many did you see before hand?
because your argument is stupid.
No, that’s not what you said at all. Here’s what you said.
All you said was that at his age you had a genesis and your friends came over. Oh, and you had dial up. What i just quoted is not the same thing as what you’re saying your argument is now.
That’s without a adult supervisor. Which most movie theaters not a days don’t give a shit about anyways.
Anyways… mommy’s fault. Obviously you are not at your optimum intelligence at 11, but you should know better then to blow $2,000 on Xbox Live.
I’m with Jie on this. We do stupid shit at 11, but not this stupid.
Edit: P.S That is one ugly ass kid. 
If anything this situation should be the perfect excuse for the mom to tell him to get up off his ass and out of the house.
hahaha suddenly i understand why he turned to a life of crime.
Doesn’t matter how many I saw before hand. If he doesn’t meet the age requirement then me saying he was not old enough isn’t because I said so.
I’m can’t be bothered to get into the whole ‘‘Your argument is stupid’’ ‘‘no my argument isn’t stupid’’, instead I’ll say that when you approach an argument with aggression you run the risk of your points being lost behind the insults. We are both adults here, we should be able to disagree on a topic without hurling insults at one another.
What I initially said does not contradict what you just quoted so you cannot say that my initial argument is different to my current one ( for the record it isn’t). Obviously I’m going to expand on my opening post because you decided to call me out on it.
I don’t know who’s worse: All of you for ignoring the kid and talking about the mom or me for doing the same thing when I saw the pic.
To answer the first question, 11? :wtf: ya’ll slow or something? By 6 I had single-handedly earned my mom the Ass-whuppin badge for all the dumb shit I did. Try getting THAT achievement medal on XBL!!!
One thing I’m glad to have been warned about is the way MS does buisness with the DLC content. At least on PSN, you get a little icon showing things that you’ve downloaded under that account. Sounds like MS invites such incidents as you downloading the same thing twice and then not trying to fix things. At least transfer the credits or something.
Now about the article at hand: Yes. I’m pretty sure that the mom probably didn’t fully understand what was up with the X-Box. THAT IS WHY YOU READ THAT WALL OF CRAP THAT COMES UP EXPLAINING WHAT YOU ARE AGREEING TO MA’AM!! I don’t care if I’m buying bubble gum, If I’m signing something for it, I will damn well know what my John Hancock is hitting the paper for before I do so. Really though, she should’ve just got the prepaid cards. I even do it although I’m the only one who lives here. No sense in some dirtbag stealing my stuff while I’m gone and getting access to a ton of games plus my card info. A few small steps could’ve prevented a big blunder for her. As for the boy’s age, Sorry. Not a good enough arguement. At 11, I knew the value of money. I also knew that I would rather have $100 in games, clothes, porn, etc. over just plain ol’ $100. I’m sure that kid was probably thinking the same thing when he hit the switch on XBL and it started downloading. Hopefully all sides will learn from this one and be the better for the experience. If nothing else, Disable the Cable.
-Starhammer-
so has anybody messaged him yet?
Naw…his “mummy” probably threw his shit out the window.
I feel the crux of the issue is whether or not the kid had any idea that things on xbox live cost money. My guess, is that an 11 year old with internet access is going to be relatively savvy, more so than his mom at least, and likely knew that it wasn’t free, but figured, nobody would notice, or, its just a couple of bucks and got carried away.
Some of the stuff about CC information being stuck on the system is shady, but I’ve always thought you could just buy a card with a year subscription on it. I don’t really feel ignorance is a defense in this situation, you have a credit card and an internet connection, you HAVE to be careful, RESEARCH what your credit card information is needed for and the services provided. I mean, if the kid racked up a 1000 pound phone bill calling phone sex numbers, we wouldn’t side with the mom. Just because it is popular with kids doesn’t make it a fisher price toy.
If microsoft is to blame, it is for making it so easy to spend money online, but really, this could have been prevented or at least minimized had this person paid more attention to their finances. Which is a good idea when money is supposedly tight.
Also, is there even anything that expensive on xbox live? how do you spend 1000 pounds in six months? He must of seriously downloaded everything he saw.
Edit: Oh yeah, I am also willing to be that his favorite game to play on xbox live is rated M and his mom has no idea what is it about. or if it is appropriate for 11 year olds
Since when is “they” an inclusive pronoun, oh that’s right, it isn’t. Stay free and stupid.
Hugh Mad.
Should of got a PS3.
The mum is a fucking idiot, and the kid is a sneaky little bastard who blatanly knew what he was doing. lol @ not knowing what you’re doing at 11.
You can get into even MORE trouble there, what with account sharing. I’m sure you remember that infamous story that was posted here a couple years ago. Although, honestly, this kid looks like he has no friends.
Its not. So you either made a typo or you were purposefully dumb. Stupid indeed.
“They” also doesn’t specify anyone in particular.
It is != Its
Stay free and stupid, just like the mom in this story.
I bet the kid knew exactly what he was doing, which was taking advantage of his irresponsible/negligent/ignorant mother.
grammar mistake != letting a kid spend thousands of dollars to purchase shit and then blaming the issue solely on the company.
Nice try though.
Do you really expect the kid or the mother to admit fault?
In-app purchases in iPad, iPhone, iPod kids’ games touch off parental firestorm
1,400 dollars in smurfberries and snowflakes?
So let me get this straight: You’re asking if the mom who blames MS not her son if she’s mad at him let alone enough to physically harm him?