Parents willing to trade their children for PS3

[eauclaireliberal]

With any luck, this nation won't last another 50-100 years. There's always hope.
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Parents Nearly Trade Kids for PS3s

It seems people will do anything to get a PlayStation 3 this holiday season. A Minnesota radio host announced over the radio that if parents were willing to turn their children over to the station for 24 hours, they would give them a new PS3.

The joke soon turned sour when it became apparent that a majority of the callers were serious about the trade.

"We got more calls than we could handle," said Dave Ryan, "They were lined up willing to turn their kids over to strangers for a freakin' PlayStation."

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.' "

Hear an excerpt of the Wednesday show here.

[SoCalDem]

1. What a STOOOOOPID promotion for the radio station

Shame on Sony , if they had anything to do with it..

We should know by now that there are many people who should not have the kids they have :eyes:

[tblue]

3. That picture is too funny!!!

[Bozita]

11. That's one helluva photo. Thanks for sharing.

[Sweet Freedom]

2. A station here in Houston did that after Thanksgiving

Tons of people called and at least two women offered to give up their child for a year.

[dave_p]

4. Something is very, very wrong

"One night at my place and one night at Dave's!"

Stunning. A valuable spoof by KDWB, though. It just shows how bad things are.

[BlueJazz]

5. What's the Big Deal about it? I'd give up one of my Kids for a day.

...as long as you give him some milk and let him Graze for awhile....

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Awwww, Do You Seroiusly Own Some? That's Awesome.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

6. Yes, Pretty Pathetic Of The Parents. That Aside, Our Country Will Last Just Fine, And I Think It's

a disgraceful sentiment to want to wish for its demise for such petty reasons. I don't care if it was lighthearted or what your justification is. It is still something I find deplorable to read, when someone says "Hey, know what? I hope 50 years from now America doesn't exist anymore". I mean, what an absolutely stupid thing to say.

[Skittles]

8. they should have treated it like a sting

and had every one of those people investigated by child services

[originalpckelly]

9. Yeah, who the hell was the PS3 for?

Think about it. That's just plain fucking selfishness, nothing more and nothing less. She was 17 when she had her first kid, and she's 22 now, so that means the oldest kid she has 6-7 years old. No kid that old plays a PS3.

This was just about those parents wanting a PS3.

So inconsiderate and cold. I wonder if people love anyone else anymore. It seems that this is not the kind of love that keeps people together when the going gets rough. The kind of love where you'd do anything for the other person. "Aw hell, fuck the kid I want a PS3." I can just hear it now.

Maybe it's always been this bad, but it really seems like it's getting worse.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. they would trade their kids for drugs too,

I seem to recall a case when a drug addict offered up her ten yearold daughter for heroin, I wonder how many kids in red America are sold into prostitution for crystal meth.

[unblock]

12. stupid parents? how about stupid radio gag?

so what, day care and babysitters are signs of negligent parents now?

ok, radio gags can be fun, especially if they make a valuable point, but this one is just stupid. the parents who fall for it aren't necessarily negligent or stupid. they have reason to think that with a very visible promotion, their kids would be well taken care of for fear of a lawsuit.

and hey, what about the parents who actually PAY to turn their kids over to complete strangers at boarding schools or summer camps?



whatever.

[Left Is Write]

14. I never thought Dave Ryan was particularly funny.

[originalpckelly]

15. Maybe that's the general problem.

We have a busy society, but it doesn't seem like we're busy doing anything that really matters. Human beings matter, you can't ever get that time back if you waste it. A crappy PS3 will be out of date in a year or so, but the memories the mother could have had with her kid during those three days, in it's earliest days, are good for a lifetime.

[illinoisprogressive]

13. A commentary on our country and it's values

the material triumphs over your own kid then we are totally bankrupt.

[MannyGoldstein]

16. Free Babysitting, And A PS3 to Boot

What's the problem here?

After an hour, they'll be offering big bucks to give him back. I could make a fortune.

[Selatius]

17. These young parents are merely the product of their parents' and grandparents' society.

If you want to lay the blame anywhere, then this festering materialism we call society is to blame. Whether you can blame your parent's generation or your grandparent's generation for fucking you up is one issue, but at the the end of the day, you are still responsible for cleaning up the mess that's been left behind, and you either meet the challenge or you, like these dumbass parents and that idiotic radio station, fail.

[Stargazer99]

18. Damn good reason for abortion on demand

How little those children are valued! And we wonder where all the problem children come from! Conservatives need to butt out of secular problems. I see the "religious" sector cannot take care of all the needs of the poor so they have no damn business denying access to abortion.