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Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-down-the-controller dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In Belfast a High Court judge has ordered a 13 year old to surrender his Xbox to the authorities. The boy was charged with a series of robberies and in the bail application the judge asked the boy what he owned that meant a lot to him. The teenager said it was his Xbox games system. The judge told the youth that the surrender of the Xbox would show him what it was like to have something he really valued taken from him."

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  1. Excellent! by msobkow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love it when a judge thinks and makes the punishment fit the crime. Having his parents pay a fine would have been pointless. Gotta make the punishment hurt for it to have any effect.

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    1. Re:Excellent! by davester666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, now the kid has to go out and shoplift another XBox...

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  2. Re:harsh, but... by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Insightful

    harsh? really? johnny jackoff is involved in a series of robberies and you consider taking his fucking video games away harsh

    piss off, my mom would hide the power brick to my sega for weeks at a time for failing to keep my grades up and this stain gets the same treatment for robbery and you fucking find it harsh???

    first it was the pepsi generation, now its the pussy generation ... fucking wonderful

  3. Re:Excellent! said the kid by Locutus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    not likely. He told the Judge it was his Xbox because he really liked his PS3 and didn't want to lose that.

    LoB

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