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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.
Because nobody will be named Braydon. Under Communism, people will all have awesome names that can only be expressed with Korean characters.
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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."
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?
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 also question the uproar over a kid seeing sex, but no such uproar about children seeing violence and death.
Sure, the store should have wiped it, but why is this so much worse than, say, a violent movie parents will let kids watch? Unless it was rape or CP, I don't see why it should be singled out as heinous. Kids used to sleep in the same room as relatives having sex, and apparently that didn't explode their little minds.
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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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Considering they were giving an Nintendo product, not a Sony product, theres a good chance they considered the likelyhood of the kid seeing intense violence anyway. Nintendo has traditionally had a pretty strong stance towards keeping things kid friendly.
I fully admit I haven't played a Nintendo game since I sold my Wii, but even then it was still pretty clear they target kid friendly.
You don't really have any indication to assume the parents are letting the kid watch Saw based on the information given so why don't you climb off your high horse and stop making retarded assumptions, mmm'kay?
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Put the X *sun glasses* in X-mas Yeaaaahhhhhh!!
You don't really have any indication to assume the parents are letting the kid watch Saw based on the information given so why don't you climb off your high horse and stop making retarded assumptions, mmm'kay?
I know it's a lot to ask, but RTFA? GIving their kids access to violence was apparently no problem; only seeing sex was.
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 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.
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.
Titties are not for little kids!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The problem is the parents' own disposition towards sex, and their reluctance to having to talk with their kids about it.
Scene A: Little Timmy sees a movie where a guy decapitates a woman. ... daddy? What's that man doing to the woman?
Timmy: Da
Dad: He's killing her, Timmy. Look away so you don't get nightmares, but try to relax, that's just a movie, that's not real.
Scene B: Little Timmy sees a movie where a guy fucks a woman. ... daddy? What's that man doing to the woman? (Note: The same question, asked with the same amount of innocence).
Timmy: Da
Dad: He... he.... OH MY GOD! GO TO YOUR ROOM!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just in case there is anyone wondering WHAT traumatized the kid in above story about Scene B more than Scene A could have: Not the scene itself, but his dad's reaction. In Scene A, he saw something horrible he didn't understand and his dad was there, by his side, comforting him and trying to rationalize it for him so he doesn't get upset. In Scene B, dad yells at him and Timmy thinks he did something bad, despite not knowing WHAT exactly he did wrong.
What really traumatizes kids about porn is their parents' reaction.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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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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...
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