this is a great story:

"A 13-year-old kid in Virginia has backtalked to his mom for the last time. When he was told to do his chores instead of play Xbox 360, he went and intentionally broke the vacuum cleaner to get out of it. What'd his mom do? Well, she's selling his Xbox and all his games on eBay. And that was before she found out he was surfing porn sites by checking out his browser's cookies.

We asked Beth, his mom, what happened, exactly, and here's what she had to say about what went down.



The score is now Beth - 1, her kid - 0. If you want to increase that score for Beth, go ahead and pick up a slightly used Xbox 360 for $250 and all of his games for $15 each, with bitterness from a 13-year-old coming along with them free of charge."

he should put a bunch of bogus bids in and foil that meddling hag

seriously, more parents need to do this...Looking back I'm surprised I didn't get my ass kicked more often.

so what is her ebay account? i certainly enjoy adding to stupid middle schoolers' misery.

Seems like a lot of trouble.

Sounds like a job for the belt.

If I was 13 & had access to internet porn in my room, I wouldn't want to take time to do the chores, either. Same goes for the video games...

I agree with Derris. Not enough ass-kicking going around these days.

i'd make him smoke the whole carton of vacuum cleaners

My childhood experience was more ass-kicked than deserves-to-get-ass-kicked.

Maybe there should be mandatory parent swaps where the whuppers get shacked up with the shud-be-whupped.

i know kicking the shit out of stupid kids always sounds like a good idea....but, you do all realize the evidence points in the other direction whenever the topic has been studied, right?

You should drop seed and see if you respond the same way in about 15 years.

Let's just settle on the fact that different types of punishment work on different types of kids. Some are just born shitheads that need to live in fear of their parents.

You can settle on that if you'd like, but I'm not gonna agree. I've seen plenty of asshole kids get the shit kicked outta them, and guess what...they stay assholes. You can't beat someone into becoming a better person.

what would you suggest doing in this same situation? taking away a kid's video game system is far from child abuse.

i don't think nobody was ever responding to the original story, just to the replies that the mother should have taken the shortcut of physical abuse.

i really dont care all that much, but she used green comic sans on her description in her ebay listing, so:

EPIC FAIL

really, people should know better than that

nah. i'll give her a hand for actually getting it up on ebay.

the kid could always buy another xbox if he really wanted to. my dad grounded me from going to the all-star game home run derby one year. i can't really buy that back.

I would have done extra chores to ensure my uninterrupted porn access.

right. cool. i retract my statement. please move along, nothing to see here.

I'm not saying "hit that kid every day" but kids need to know that the nuclear ass whippin is always on the table.

Intentionally breaking a vacuum cleaner to get out of chores?

You KNOW that's a paddlin'!

Quite possibly the most underrated post in Obner history.