Boy sues mom who refuses to buy him a PC
By Peter Rojas 
posted Nov 9th 2004 11:24AM
posted Nov 9th 2004 11:24AM
We used a lot of ploys to try and get our parents to buy us stuff when we were younger (you don't even want to know what we did to score an original Nintendo Entertainment System), but an 11-year-old in central China has raised the bar for gadget-hungry kids everywhere by suing his mother after she backed out of an agreement to buy him a computer if he got good enough grades. It actually got as far as a courtroom, but the judge hearing the case was able to work things out between them, though there's no mention of whether or not the kid ever got his computer.
lol @ that. I bet nothing was in writing so his arugument Im sure had a hard time holding up in court.
thats some major balls to sue your own mom for backing out of purchasing a computer for you.
amazing that it was reported from *china*... i thought this kinda crap only happened in california.
At age 11, how the hell do you know to sue anyone??? Wow!
I'm in college and I still get ill fitting clothing from my mom. Do you think I have a case?
Hooray! If this keeps up, the United States will lose its title of Land of the Frivolous Lawsuit.
next step would be putting the kid on ebay, that'll be even a bigger news.
Haha the kid is gonna be china's youngest ambulance chaser.
What a brat. That kid needs to be slapped.
And so does the lawyer that agreed to take on the suit.
You can call the kid a brat if you want, but it's very poor parenting to make a child a promise and then not fulfill your end of the bargain, if they hold up their end.
If the boy wins, buy him a computer and sell him to a slave owner. That'll teach him.
While it's not exactly good for the kid to sue his mom, at the same time I can see where he's coming from. He works his ass off to get the good grades and his mom totally breaks her promise to him. I wouldn't have sued her, but I would be absolutely furious and maybe stop doing my chores.
If she had a really good reason though (maybe she realized computers are more expensive than she thought), then maybe they can reach a compromise. Like she can buy him the computer next year instead, or maybe pay for half of it while he gets a part time job to pay for the rest? I don't know.