Mom-of-the-year calls cops on son who opened "PlayStation GameBoy" pre-Xmas

As the PS3 crime spree chronicles continue to unfold, a zany mother in South Carolina apparently got a few wires crossed (and an incensed son, to boot) according to a recent police report. After claiming to purchase a "PlayStation GameBoy" for her mischievous 12-year old son to open at Christmas, the woman filed a petty larceny incident report to have the youngster arrested for opening it this past Sunday. Reportedly, the woman came home to a haphazardly opened box, and found the unit after the child claimed he "didn't know where it was," sending the mum into a fit which led to her son's arrest. While the boy was known to be a troublemaker in school, purportedly "attempted to assault a police officer" in the past, and has a thing for "stealing," the mother's soft heart still found it possible to purchase the coal-deserving brat an object that hasn't even been released (nor created). Whatever it really is, we hope it ends up on eBay so some deserving kiddo can give it a whirl.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 7th 2006 7:33PM]

Maybe this is the "gameboy playstation". Probably totally illegal.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPER-KID-PLAY-BOY-PLAY-76-IN-1-GAMES_W0QQitemZ300057685095QQihZ020QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2006 1:16AM]

This is pretty stupid, from what I can tell mom 27yrs old, kid 12yrs old, you do the math.
Pete @ Dec 6th 2006 10:22PM you are pretty rough, but I don't think you are totally wrong. Everyone knows by now that single parent family do not do as well as double parents. What a lot of poeple are not ready to hear yet is that statistically single moms tends to do even worst with boys (I guess the same way men are often blamed for not understanding women because they are not in touch with their feminine side, it should make sense that women have a corresponding problem, but suggesting that will usually get you labled as sexist).
In any case here is a study that I read that might get poeple to think about this from a differnt angle: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W52-45TYMK3-5&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F1996&_alid=503802087&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=6558&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2e52fe7695ac25c37b33ab8c4f8d53d4

I was a bad kid when I was young but I almost always stopped before things got out of hand. Was it because of a sense of morality?... No, it was because I did not want to hear my mom says those few little words: "Wait until dad gets home"

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 12th 2006 5:37PM]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1205062xmas1.html

Playstation Gameboy referenced to but it seems the Gameboy is the more common use in the report and with an $85 pricetag it's likely it's an GBA SP. Sounds like the kid's been naughty and should be getting coal anyhow...or at least some ritalin ;)