Everybody knows that console wars are serious business and that cold, hard machinery is completely worth an emotional investment, but how far will the soldiers of this conflict, those truly classifiable as 'fanboys' go for their chosen masters? Will they break the law? In the case of one thirteen year old boy, that is exactly what he did, getting himself apprehended for scrawling "PS3 sucks" on no less than 23 plastic PlayStation 3 security cases in his local Toys R Us.
He was discovered lurking at the back of the Anderson, S.C store by staff, who then found his vandalistic preachings written in permanant black marker. The PS3 hater was then held until police arrived who handed him over to child services when parents couldn't be contacted. When asked why he did what he did, the young fellow-me-lad replied, "I have an Xbox and I hate PlayStation. I found the marker lying on the shelf and I guess I was bored. Sorry."
I'd say it's only because the PS3's black.
[Thanks to TheGoldenDonut for this one. Oh, and people made the comic: writer - Jonathan Baylis, art - David Beyer Jr]
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10:57 AM on 08.12.2007
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There's a reason I don't take them seriously except a select few. This is why I don't pay attention to their opinions. Especially on blog sites. Seriously, just go troll around on AOL threads. Idiots saying "Warning comment from a 13 year old!LOLOL!" are the elite of sitting ducks.
Much fun.
(Kid, if you're reading, the money's in the mail)
That kid should have to visit the Museum of Tolerance.
BTW - That link was originally supposed to be a South Park link, but it ended up being more unintentionally hilarious.
STFUAJPG.
"you have adults who make a business out of whipping teenage angst into a console war frenzy, where the marker isn't so destructive and the display case is electronic."
PSTRIPLES, STAND TALL AND PROUD!
I think if someone started a 360 hate group called XXX a lot of people would show up to the first meeting expecting something completely different.
Don't forget The Revolution, a team of hipster thugs who flail their arms when they fight the other two. Kind of like epileptic wiggers wearing American Eagle tall tees.
If so where were they at the time this happened?
;)
Although I do have to limit what I play while she's around.
08/12/2007 11:47
Poor PS3...it's hard being black and gifted.
360 elite is black too maybe i should go to toy R us with my marker
08/12/2007 13:53
Face it, that kid got more balls then most of the fanboys.
no this kid just need parents to teach him respect ... balls have nothing to do here
Agreed.
Fuckin' morons. He didn't write it on the actual boxes. It's not like those cases cant be washed because they can. People do stupid shit to stupid products to end up in even more stupid situations.
Why can't America be more like Korea? Just give everyone a PC, some random MMO or RTS and have them sit there and play the games for the rest of their slowly reducing lives.
Leave it to Jim Sterling to play the Console Card . . .
i mean, what did the ps3 ever do to him? and how many times has his xbox died.?