Dad sells son's 90-dollar video game online for more than 9000

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071216/od_afp/canadainternetdrugchristmasoffbeat

MONTREAL (AFP) - After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.

The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.

"So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son," the father wrote on the eBay website.

"Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends."

[GOPisEvil]

1. That sort of takes the sting out of the punishment, eh?

Well, dad, you wouldn't HAVE that $9000 if I hadn't sparked up.

I'd think about saying that to my dad.

[JVS]

2. He can use some of the money to send his kid to a boot-camp

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. What amazes me - though, no, it actually doesn't - is that some group of jackass schmucks

actually would bid against each other for a VIDEO GAME (that will be available by the pallet on probably Dec. 26) and raise the price to $9,000, which one of the assholes actually paid.

[SKKY]

4. Well, whoever bought that for $9,000.00 is an absolute idiot...

...who's probably blazing up himself. I could purchase 4 right now on ebay for 129.00 each. And that's just on the fist page.

[RetroLounge]

5. I bet It was the kid who bid it up to $9000

and then paid with the old man's credit card.

:smoke:

RL

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. And probably did it because he was stoned, and thought he was bidding $90.00

[billyskank]

7. Waiddaminute

there's a video game called Guitar Hero III ?

What amazes me even more is that it implies there must also have been a Guitar Hero and a Guitar Hero II.

:wtf:

Sounds like this is up there with Sega's Sea Bass Fishing (big hit in Japan apparently).

[Deja Q]

8. Sea Bass Fishing, eh? Betcha it looks like this...

:hide:

[mitchum]

9. Hoax