OT: Maybe I Misjudged a Parent's Love for a Child

[Thomas Rogers]

...as compared to their attachment to and need for other things, say like a PS3.



Here is a story, and radio show clip that will make you think.

Gamers prepared to give up kids for new console



Thursday 30 November 2006

A radio gag offering a PlayStation 3 for any listeners who gave up their kids backfired on the radio show's host as over a dozen listeners rang up to accept the offer.



Dave Ryan, the host of Minnesota's KDWB morning show, said that he would give a PS3 to anyone who would hand over their baby for 24 hours. But what was supposed to be a joke mocking just how far people would be prepared to go to get a PS3, was taken seriously by many listeners.



Those who rang up included a woman prepared to let her child go for three days saying that she was going to sell the PS3 to save money for holidays. The ages of the children varied with a one-month-old baby being offered up in exchange for the next-gen console.

Listen to a clip from the show linked below...

 

[Fred]

Sad. I don't know why some people have kids. Well, the ones that aren't accidents.

 

[Brian Curry]

Ah nice to see good family values. People are willing to go that extra mile for their children.

 

[STench]

Here I am paying my babysitter $10 an hour when I could get a PS3 instead!?! :unsure:



Truly sick people out there.

 

[Bill V]

As someone who lives in the Twin Cities, I don't know which I find more disheartening--the fact that people took him up on this, or the fact that K-Dweeb (as the station is not-so-affectionately known) has 12 listeners...

 

[Ryan Schaecher]

Most of the parents probably worked all day and had the kids at day care, so what's another 12 hours away?



Greedy folks who only care about themselves.