Say what you will about
dogs being man's best friend -- they sure can get into a lot of trouble. While our dogs have been limited to eating shoes and shedding on our furniture, Greg Strope of Richmond, Virginia has reason to believe his furry friend has gone the extra mile. While he lay in bed sleeping, his dog Oscar, he believes, purchased 5,000 Microsoft points. The only possible culprit, Oscar left some telltale signs (drool and scratches) on the
Xbox controller, leading Greg to blame the $63 purchase on him. We have to admit the dog's actions rather impress us, though it also makes us nervous about all those times we left our laptop open and unattended around our own tiny beast. Video featuring damning photographic evidence is after the break.
posted Nov 1st 2009 7:57PM
In Internet Time, this happened, last year.
And by that, you mean last Thursday.
I hope this dog gets RROD.
Stupid f'ing story.
At least it's not $63 worth of child porn.
Beat me to it
Beat you to it? Have a seat over there.
Just take a seat, please, take a seat.
Nice pun.
Facepalm, but under that facepalm im laughing
Im chris Hannnnnnnnsen.
@Haikibutsu
I don't know if what you said was on purpose, or if you have deep down thoughts of child porn and dream of beaing "beat to it", but well played sir, well played.
Yay now i have a good excuse for buying stuff online!
So easy a Dog can do it.
Glad to see Fox News is still covering the important news.
Turns out fox news was wrong when they told you to "buy a dog" to protect yourself from hackers on steroids.
Yep, because MSNBC only does hard-hitting, important news, like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367kF_Wjacg
Oh, and I just saw a bit on the local news about the latest holiday fashions which ended with the reporter's name followed by "NBC News." I am glad I did not miss it, because that kind of news is so important in describing world events. I am so glad NBC, with the news and only the real news (and not that crap from the ***other*** cable network) is there for me. I am so much more informed now.
NBC News just had a bit on TV about the new Star Trek museum. Thank-you NBC News for only showing me the real news, I bet that stupid Fox news does not have important stuff like this.
If you don't have a clue yet, it is called a human interest story. ***ALL*** news channels do it.
Isn't this one of Fox's morning shows? The last time I checked all the morning shows aired stupid crap like this.
Giving a large TV role to a black woman was historical and newsworthy in its day. MS points will never be truly newsworthy.
Big D, I assume you were commenting on my Star Trek museum comment. They showed the set, the clothes, they talked about how the clothes had zippers, some lame joke about how they kept transporting a worker at the museum in and out when she was talking about the exhibit, and one of the guys that I suppose was an actor on the show (not a fan of Star Trek, so I am not sure who he was)talking about how it had been many years since he was on the show. Nothing about a woman, her race, etc.
But yes, them showing how some of the costumes were made out of bubble wrap, and some lasers they used were made out of salt and pepper shakers, it was so chock full of hard hitting news.
Nohone:
yeah, anyone who blasts fox news and then watches MSNBC is just asking for the fire hose. I watch CNN myself, and then only for 30 minutes at lunch time. The rest of my news comes from sources that have comments sections where people can rebuke the post if needed. Non-interactive news is so ten years ago.
I Love how Nohone assumes that the OP likes MSNBC, because those are the only two news groups out there. good job.
NohOne, is there a reason you keep replying to me (3 times in 22 minutes) and mentioning MS[NBC] each time?
I've never purchased anything through Xbox so I'm not sure what the process is like, but if it's anything similar to the process with the Playstation store, I don't believe it.
Might be usable as a plotline in a detective show, person buys stuff with the X360 then gives the controller to the dog to chew on, everybody thinks it was the dog until the detective cleverly find a clou to prove the opposite.
Pretty easy.
You can save all your credit card details, so you can pretty much one-click anything you want.
sign 1 that dog is smarter buys points from microsoft :O
Skinny gamer nerd, fatttttttttt girlfriend.
more cushion for the push'in
shes just sitting there like a lump on a pickle...
Yeah Iam calling BS on that one. Thats probably just what he told his girlfriend when she saw the credit card bill.
just incase she ate him
Seriously, this guy is a friend of mine. He put it up on his facebook right after it happened with pictures of the drool covered controller. I believe him.
tell your friend that letting his girlfriend eat the dog wasnt such a good idea.
holy shit that chick is ugly
I just want to try and shove her upper teeth back in her mouth. :(
That dog is very puntable.
oh, you. I thought you got kicked out after you insulted Joshua Topolsky on the motorola droid review, but I guess not.
Yes, that insult was in poor form.
Is there a "confirm purchase" option? I don't know, I only redeem cards with MSFT, not use my credit card. But usually a reasonable safety measure is to put in a "confirm purchase" option in case buttons are accidentally pressed.
Wouldn't the confirm purchase option still require you to press buttons? It is still possible to hit the right sequence at random, especially of the default is "OK".
well, I believe that confirms it's Sunday...
lolololo now blame the dog......
This is not news.
@CJ i'm sorry, but you made my day(:
@Alex Patellis
Well it's the truth lol.
I meant more like why on earth is Engadget posting this...
@CJ
What would you know about FOX News? Apparently, you have not yet passed third grade grammar workshops.
Well, ROFL, neither did Obama. So, he has a legitimate excuse.
I have the fake city backdrop in the interview.
Only a dumbass fan dweller would be that stupid.
hum..... something smells like the balloon boy over there.....
Yeah, BG wakes up to Fox and Friends. Just after he checks his email on his Mac Book.
Don't group Apple fanboys with Fox news lovers. Even they have standards (the apple fanboys)
Oh yes! Everyone should watch CNN instead!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEj5vUkMgYo
I hope this dog gets RROD.
Stupid f'ing story.
your comment was stupid the first time.
Lmao dog with RROD? LOL you cracked me up xD
I can see how this shit would make a farce like Fos News, but how did it get on Engadget? Are you trying to lose fans??
Hey it's Sunday, cut them some slack. Most of the staffers are probably hung over from yesterday...I know I am :-P
So much for the old: my dog ate my homework bullshit...
Engadget, every Macintosh running Snow Leopard started running at maximum CPU and overheating last night during the DST switch, and you're posting stories about dogs buying MS Points?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2218024&tstart=30
Come on, someone needs to call Apple out on this.
I was in front of my MacBook Pro when the time rolled back and you know what happened? Nothing.
I kept watching Youtube in H.264
@ [Highest Ranked]
I was at a Halloween party having fun apposed to sitting at my laptop watching youtube.
Don't be so smug can everyone else can do it too.
Engadget, Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch parties prove to be complete failures, and you're posting stories about dogs buying MS Points?
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174237/windows_7_launch_parties_fizzle.html
This is a clear reflection of how the market will reject Windows 7... and how dogs buy MS points.
@ p0p0
While you were getting high on Halloween Microsoft cocaine I was just resting after a 14hr work shift.
Some of us have to maintain Internet BGP networks so you can post Engadget comments.
Highest Ranked, it's likely that your CPU usage spiked and you didn't notice since you were already running Flash on a MacBook, so your fans were likely blazing away anyway. And I'm saying this as a MacBook owner. This issue was definitely seriously widespread, and if it had happened on Windows there would've been a shitstorm ... you know, like when it happened to the Zune.
@ Uncontrol
I watch Youtube in high quality H.264, not on Flash. My CPU stays cool and quiet and videos are super sharp.
Check out ClickToFlash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
@Highest
Don't bullshit us, no human tech alive would use an apple product willingly. Just admit it, you work at a Starbucks.
@uncontrol
i think you seem to have come to the wrong blog
your looking for : www.gizmodo.com
highest ranked this rules, thanks
lol @ how he thinks bill gates still runs microsoft
Wait, are Josh T and Laura June a couple?
yes, they are (i don't know, i just like to spread rumors)
I just remembered from some other post seeing Josh's dog, which stuck in my head because it looks identical to my friend's dog. And this dog does too.
FOX reporting news at its finest!
really fox news, REALLY?
i love how as the kid is describing the situation, the girlfriend is silently snickering in a way that just says "wow i cant believe he still hasn't figure it out that it was me. guys are idiots..."
The cat did it
but blamed it on the dog
what kind of dog is that in that pic?
she's a Chihuahua!
Really? This is a headline story? Fox news, really? Like Adam Curry says, "Nothing to see here. Look at that!"
"What are Microsoft Points?"
WHY IS THIS ON FOX NEWS?!
I think the kid was trying to steal anchor's job with that posture.
And what's so hard about turning on the Xbox? You just have to press the xbox guide button for a second or two.
It does seem pretty fishy, for several reasons.
It looks like a wireless controller, so unless it was plugged in, it wouldn't be on 40 minutes later. I know he claims the dog somehow turned the system on, including the controller, found an item to purchase, and added the points, but I don't buy it.
I expect the dog let it slip in an interview that they "did it for the show."
The dog turned the xbox on... lol wow so sad
what is the Apple Mac doing in the pic??? ;)
his girlfriend is fuggly
i am pretty sure it was the girlfriend who had a midnight snack craving and was too lazy to make it to the kitchen, saw the controller and started gnawing away only to realize it didn't contain any saturated fat...the dog was lucky it wasn't near when this event took place...headline coulda been "Girlfriend eats dog, Microsoft next?"
i bet they made it up so the fat one can go on TV
Probably the sucker got phished into giving his account details away, thus some scriptkid was able to buy 5000 MS points through his creditcard... having a dog purchase 5000 MS points, would be really random, and pretty much impossible for the dog to select in the Xbox Dashboard
calling hoax on this story
My cat once discovered a keyboard shortcut to make all my open windows line up side by side, i still don't know what that shortcut was.
god bless fox news!
Why did that story make it on to a tv news network? on a side note his girlfriend took up most of the camera shot. ew.
The reporters look kinda creepy. The guests arent that much better. The FOX D.C people look much better.
that dog is awesome. He bought Microsoft point using an xbox controller on a Macbook pro.
I really wish Microsoft required some sort of logon when adding points to your account or even purchasing something with points you already have.
My GF and her kids were living with me for a time and there was a couple of occasions where something was purchased "by accident" on the Xbox. With no way to remove credit cards from your account, or to prevent purchases without locking out the entire profile. The live experience comes down to out and out trust that everyone else in the house knows that those "points" = cash spent or blocking the console from the network while your not there to supervise.
LOL @ "Bill Gates gets up to us every morning"
Faux News
Big deal!!! My son at 1 1/2 years old bought 5000 points 3 times in one sitting, All while I’m right there watching TV as my Xbox was turned on on a different input. My Son all the time would use the controller as a toy but with the battery out. This time he managed to grab the controller with the battery in it and spent $190 on points then bought a few themes, Zombie Apocalypse and sent one of my friends gibberish as a text message. I called up MS and they told me that they can refund 2 of the 5000 points but because he bought those themes and Zombie Apocalypse I can’t get all 3 refunded since points were spent… it’s been almost 2 months, 3 calls and I still have not received a refund. No biggie… ill end up spending them on something anyways. GTA 4 Ep 1 and 2, Fable 2 and others