No Guitar Hero For Toking Teen

This made some big news the other day. Some kids father catches him smoking pot and sells his guitar hero 3 pack for Nintendo that he was supposed to get for Christmas. The GH3 pack sold for over 9 grand. Here is the story from the father explanation.

Here’s the deal:

So I spent who knows how many hours of my life trying to get “Guitar Hero 3” for the Nintendo Wii for my 15 year old son who has been begging for it since he was born (well not really but he’s wanted it for awhile). So after waiting in lines and going into every game store in the city over the last 2 weeks (practically being laughed at when I asked for guitar hero 3) I finally got lucky and got one at EB Games (they just got a shipment of them 25 minutes before I walked in!).

So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Xmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son.

Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what to I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the backyard with 2 of his delinquent friends.

Now I know santa applies the “naughty or nice” paradigm to determine who gets what on Christmas. My son (Isaac) hasn’t exactly been Mother Teresa this year (he got suspended for fighting in the spring, among other things) but I thought I could still justify getting him this present. Maybe it would make him stay home more and “rock out” on this fake guitar thing. He pretty much spends all his free time at his friend’s house playing it anyways (while high on marijuana, I would imagine).

Anyways, I am now finding it hard to justify rewarding him with this gift after he so greatly disappointed me. I know smoking a joint isn’t the end of the world, but if you can convince me that he deserves the gift, then I will end the auction. You will have to be very convincing. I am an elementary school teacher and I know that rewarding bad behavior is just asking for more of the same…

After I caught him getting high on my patio I did the typical yelling, screaming, kicking out the friends, etc… but I had not decided on a suitable way to punish him. As of the time of me writing this, he does not know I got him Guitar Hero 3. I will show him the auction once it is posted and we can watch it finish together. Sort of a “Father-Son bonding experience”. While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal (well I think pot is still illegal in Canada) drugs on my property.

I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing With the Stars. These games are in stock everywhere I go, and I know he will just love them.

Merry Xmas Isaac. I hope you’ve learned your lesson. –Father.

This is what I think. I think this was just a fabricated story used to sell the Wii guitar hero pack on Ebay. You know a story will always help sell an Item better. This is why I think it is a fabricated story. It all sounds too good. A father just happens to come home early and catch his “Innocent little boy” smoking pot with his delinquent friends? and then at the end says something stupid like “I think pot is illegal in Canada”. To me this story sounds like it was written by a woman. No man or father calls his son an innocent little boy and any parent knows what pot is illegal…even in Canada. This was a great story to sell a guitar hero pack for 100 times it’s value…well played. I think thats scalping if you ask me…but oh well. Maybe that just because I didn’t think of it first!

Here is the link to the actual Auction Daddy, NO! not my GH3!