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Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas
dotarray writes "One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for this Christmas when they gave five-year-old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS that apparently still contained 'graphic images' from a previous owner. From the article: 'Refurbishing is an art, as well as a craft. The whole point is to make a gadget feel pristine, even when it used to be owned by a cult leader, a scout leader or an exhibitionist.
Sadly, someone in a Colorado GameStop stopped refurbishing before the job was complete.
So much so that 5-year-old Braydon Giles opened his Xmas gift — a Nintendo 3DS — and discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things. As Channel 9 News tells it, Braydon showed the 3DS to his brother Bryton. He wanted his help to remove these weird pictures. '"
I would totally risk sexual traumatization at the age of 5 if it meant a free 3DS. I swear I'm going through like Miyamoto withdraw or something ever since I accidentally my Wii's firmware before Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out.
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All I got was a bunch of simplistic children's games on my 3DS.
Best part of the article:
GameStop is currently researching this situation. We have a rigorous quality control process in place
As a former GameStop employee, I can personally attest to the fact that their "rigorous quality control process" consists of "Now don't get too stoned in the back room when you're on the clock."
Now their tragic tot will be forever google-linked to porno. What idiots!
Yes, the store is at fault. But the parents do share a bit of it for NOT CHECKING the device, knowing it was a refurb and all.
Is this story not trite already? "Child's electronic gift with porn" runs every year at this time.
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Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
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Don't worry, most 5-year-olds won't make the connection.
Seriously, if the dad thinks his kid is never gonna set tits, pussy, and/or cock, he's deluded.
What did you expect from the folks who named their kids Bryton and Braydon?
Rookie dad totally forgets that five year old life is highly focused on things interesting to a five year old and not at all focused on boring things like long speeches and naked people. Five year old is understandably interested at father figure whose freakout knob is set to 11. Later, five year old sees dad preening for the camera and thinks it looks like a good time, joins in.
This kid would have totally forgotten it if not for his dad's reaction. I weep for the culture which has to deal with this guy's kids 15 years from now.
I can not feel sorry for the parents at all, period. How hard would it have been for them to turn the device on and see what if any personal data was on it and then delete it all? Friends of mine have bought used phones over the years and they would occasionally have a device full of personal family photos, videos, apps, you name it.
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discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things
Sex act by itself is a part of nature.
Without sex acts, many higher form animals have no way to procreate.
When sex itself is deemed something that's not "pristine" something is very wrong - way beyond wrong .....
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While I would be pissed if this happened to me as well, lets look at a quote from the full article:
"You can't un-see this. He's five years old. Maybe when he's 18 or 20 maybe he won't know anything about it but he's not going to forget about it tomorrow,"
I'll bet a months pay that unless someone reminds him, he won't remember it in a week. He might not forget it tomorrow, but in a week he'll be long past it. By the time next christmas comes around he won't remember a thing that happened this christmas unless you bring it up to him and point it out, if you ask him what he got for christmas last year he'd probably have to put serious effort into thinking about it. His mind has far more important things to worry about ... like being a fucking 5 year old and playing video games themselves or playing with his friends/toys.
On that same note however, when he's 18 or 20, he probably WILL remember it and picture it in his quest to satisfy himself when he can't get a date or some else to do it. Of course, at that point he'll be looking at any sexually arousing thing on the planet and wanting to bone its brains out so its really stupid to care.
This guy is just trying to blow it out of proportion to extort some money from GameStop. Fucking leech.
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Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
Because the universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master.
He can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
He has defined a category of behaviours which are biologically imperative but which we should not do, lest he judge us unworthy in his eyes and stick us in his personal torture chamber for all eternity.
Showing naked people to children encourages them to have sex in ways which are not permitted, which will get them sent to the eternal torture chamber.
Does this answer your question?
I bought a refurbished Wii from GameStop, still had the previous owner's saved games, Netflix account (which works by the way), credits on the Nintendo store. They made no effort to clean the system whatsoever.
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I process returns at a retail store, this situation happened at the location I work at. It was with a digital camera instead of a 3ds, but otherwise the same. The parent complained, and a new policy was set of sending all returned electronics with internal memory back to the manufacturer for a reset. You can't expect someone working at minimum wage to know how to operate every electronic device the store sells, and how to do the factory reset (if it even has such a function). Many of the units are uncharged, which requires charging the battery beforehand in order to wipe it.
TBH I saw this coming a mile away when I first heard of the DSi having a camera. I'm just waiting for the case of a refurbished 3ds with pics a teenager took of themselves nude.
Maybe people should quit stealing shit......
Who buys a refurbished 3DS over a new one these days? The Gamestop price on a used one is currently $159.99 while they sell new ones for $169.99.
My daughter, who has a hearing defect, was prescribed a listening program that only worked on - Windows 95.
This was in the early days of Windows XP, so finding a Windows 95 machine (or a set of disks) was somewhat hard.
I did manage to find one at a local electronics consignment store which claimed to have gone through and sanitized the system from the previous owner.
My seven year old daughter looked at the "Videos" folder and found somebody's collection of something that we could only described as "Jamacian Dungeon Porn". To use the vernacular of the article, these videos were not "pristine" and really quite disturbing.
She was pretty freaked out by them at the time and, ten years later, she still says she remembers the screams although she can't remember what was on the videos.
As for the store caring? We got the impression they were most upset at the idea we didn't save a copy of the videos for them.
I'm sure our story (and the one in the article) are pretty rare, but I can see the probability of something like this with "reconditioned" equipment is no where near approaching zero.
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Kids are violent from the moment they are born.
They're also sexual from the moment they are born. Not to the same extent as when hitting puberty, but certainly not asexual cherubs.
Some repress and deny that they themselves were sexual creatures even as children, quite possibly out of guilt, thinking it was themselves there was something wrong with.
But pictures of grown-ups? Largely uninteresting to a five year old boy, I should think. To him, it would be a lemon party - something to say "yuck" at and delete.
Which apparently he tried to do, and it was his father who blew a fuse, not the kid. Sure, the kid is probably traumatized now, by his father's behavior.
And unless he changes his name, likely to be ridiculed in a few years in school, when classmates enter his name in a search engine. All thanks to dad, who wanted his fifteen minutes of fame, but apparently didn't give a flying fuck about causing his kids problems.
Been there, done that. PSPs have been sold more than once in that condition.
More than once? I would have thought that the pictures would be wiped when the first new owner finds them?
Also, isn't it misleading advertising? If you haven't refurbished it, it's used, not refurbished. The two terms are not interchangeable.
Anyhow, we don't know what happened (or didn't) in this case. We only have this guy's claim to go by, and like TFA, I need a little more convincing, before I believe all of unlikely actions leading to this:
1: The previous owner did not delete the porn.
2: The store did not delete the porn.
3: The buyer did not check the previously owned device before giving it as a gift.
4: The pictures weren't deleted by the boys, who instead called attention to it.
5: The guy went to the press.
Too many required steps in this hypothesis for my liking. Unless corroborated, I would say it's just as likely that:
6: The guy is lying.
In either case, it's a non-story. Just reset the device to factory condition..
ohno, there are some pictures of naked people doing some nasty stuff on a pre-owned 3DS.. oh yeah, blame it on the shop and put it on the news so you can have your 15-minutes of fame.. I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous that such a thing becomes 'world'news.. Why didn't the parents who bought the used 3ds check it themselves if it worked before giving it to the child, they knew they were buying a used 3ds..
Yes it might be the shop's responsibility of 'cleaning' the pre-owned device, but is it really? do they claim they wiped the device? all they need to do is check if the device is working properly.. To me this is just blowing everyting out of proportions.. pffff.. making a fuzz about some pre-owned 3DS with some porn on it while they give other children weapons.. Next time please make sure it's actually something to write about...
Seeing Robocop at like 11 years old freaked me out more than any playboy or penthouse mags ever did.
How do you sell a PSP in that condition? Or do you mean that a PSP has been sold along with a memory stick containing the images?
Storage for images etc on the PSP is all via removable memory sticks. The type of memory stick used (the pro duo if I recall, though I traded in my PSP when I bought a Vita, so can't check for sure) isn't even a PSP-only device... I've used them with PCs as well.
I guess you cannot expect them to use some Brayn.
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Relax, 10 years ago it was Kevin and in 10 years you'll have a lot of Justins running around.
And it won't change 'til parents stop naming their rugrats after the current pop star du jour.
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Just another proof of what people with brains have been saying for years: The whole "think of the chiiiildren" agenda is stupid. Kids don't get traumatized by porn, they simply don't care about it. Older kids are where it gets interesting. Young kids? Disney is a ton more important to them than weird pictures of naked adults doing weird stuff.
Like in TFA, it's the adults freaking out, not the kids. Maybe we should change the meme to "think of the paaarents".
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Don't worry, he'll blame the porn for the problems. After all, if there hadn't been porn on that device, none of this would have happened.
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I saw porn as a kid initially because some blew into my Grandparents' back garden from a neighbour who'd had his stash ripped up.. Probably some domestic there, but I can remember wondering why the women were wearing pretend beards in strange places. I thought it was funny and an oddity.. Couldn't have been more than 6 at the time..
Then a few years later (still sub 10), one of my friends uncovered his dad's stash.. There was the thrill of doing something I knew I wasn't meant to be doing, but nothing out of the ordinary. No ill effects, apart from the fallout from having my folks hit the roof when they found out about it..
A few years later, I watched a horror movie (that would be considered tame by today's standards) and I didn't sleep properly for weeks, and I remember being so nervous and anxious for ages.. Hey, I got over that too.. But from my perspective and recall, being exposed to horror and violence is far more damaging to a young psyche than porn.. But being young, you get over it.
Now for real problems, you just have to step over into a third world country where death is common and visible, people you know are abducted and killed. Disease is rife and a killer. And yet some of them are far more well adjusted than a lot of the people I've seen raised in 'safe' environments...
My daughter, who has a hearing defect, was prescribed a listening program that only worked on - Windows 95.
She was pretty freaked out by them at the time and, ten years later, she still says she remembers the screams although she can't remember what was on the videos.
Since she can only remember the screams, I am assuming the videos fixed the hearing defect she had?
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"'Refurbishing is an art, as well as a craft."
No, its a skill. One that someone wasn't very good at.
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Is the kid was crying while he described finding porn, so either his father coached him for the soon to be announced law suit or the kid is frightened of naked people... which is pretty damn sad.
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People have been naming their kids after people who are perceived as being at the top forever.
Why do you think Jame is a popular name? Mark?
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It's a terrible thing to do this to a child. Children should not be the victims of these horrific deeds.
Not to be to inquisitive about the habbits of children. But where did this terrible event occur at? And what was the costly price for such an object? Was there a promotional code that was used? And what is their Return Policy?
1- Little brother receives Nintendo 3DS
2- Big brother hides porn on 3DS for later viewing
3- Little brother finds porn and shows it to big brother.
4- Big brother gets busted and decides to blame Gamestop
5- Father sues Gamestop
Nice!
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On the 3DS, you head to settings, other settings, and format system. Then you replace the SD card with a new one to avoid any further issues.
This isn't rocket science here.
On my computer, the r and the n ran together and read like Pom, so I saw this: "Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Pom For Christmas"
My initial reaction was, "and no one noticed it leaking? Wonderful."
Relax, 10 years ago it was Kevin and in 10 years you'll have a lot of Justins running around. And it won't change 'til parents stop naming their rugrats after the current pop star du jour.
That's not what I've seen. What I've seen (and I've been around a long time) is that people try to choose uncommon names for their kids and usually do so with "baby books" and wind up with a whole lot of kids with the same "uncommon" name. There are already a ton of Justins within ten years of Beiber's age, I know quite a few. How many fifty year old women do you know named "Marilyn"? How many fifty and sixty year old men do you know named "Clint"? I know of none, despite the fact that Marilyn Monroe and Clint eastwood were immensely popular film stars.
In twenty years you'll be hard pressed to find many twenty year olds named Justin; twenty years ago is when all the kids got that name.
Your hypothesis doesn't hold up to the facts.
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I had two junior high teachers named Marilyn in the same school.
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Screw the porn.....
Just go with the false advertising claim. Might want to have kept the evidence tho as it was obviously not recond/refurb. That implies value-added by the store which was not present.
I would not expect to have to check a recond/refurb device. It should behave as new for the most part except for cosmetic damage. I wouldn't expect to get treated so well with no proof either, maybe they know what their recondioning is worth.
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...and of course there's no way that the family could have put it there themselves. Say in order to make a shit load of money by suing Gamestop.
this is sick. the kid's parents should really sue gamestop