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Liar, liar ... PS3 didn't create any fire photo

A few days ago, a blogger named Netnoob claimed that a PS3 left on overnight caused his house to burn down. Well, after a nasty call from Sony, Netnoob has come forth and confessed the whole thing was a scam. The PS3 never burned down his house, not that it could have in the first place, because Noob doesn’t own a PS3, let alone a house to burn down.

Noob confessed to lying about his house fire on the same blog where he posted the original lie.

First off I would like to say I dont owen a playstation 3 or a house.. I got a very lovely call from sony today,after my story hit the U.S.A it got big in other parts of the world. In Japan alone I had over 23,000 unique views in one day after a news station reported my story. In the U.S.A I had over 30,000 in just a few days, now some people at sony are a little pissed. Im not going into any names but a legal head at sony made it nice a clear that I need to let everyone know it was all just a scam. He told me the last few weeks, sony had over 200 calls from people concerned about their PS3.

Once again.. My house was not burned down, and I never owned a playstation 3. Thank you, and sorry to the poeple I might have made second guess Sony's responsibility for making their first prority the safety of the customers..

I’m glad Sony put this little idiot in his place. He’s gotta learn what happens to people that try to screw with the big boys. If it was an Xbox 360 in the story, instead of a PS3, Peter Moore would have had him tortured with a pair of jumper cables hooked up to a rechargeable controller battery pack.

Hey Sony, while you're putting this little moron through the ringer, could you teach him how to write too? His confession post looks like a drunk chimp wrote it.


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Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 17:51
Dexter345
Or maybe in the call, Sony offered him MILLIONS to say it was fake. BUM BUM BUUUMMM! The plot thickens...

Or not. Whichever.
EnvyMe's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 17:52
EnvyMe
Dexter pretty much summed up what I was going to say.
Fana7ic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 17:53
Fana7ic
Such an idiot
Fana7ic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 17:54
Fana7ic
but then again Dexter could be right. We most likely will never find out...
Faith's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:11
Faith
Well, until another PS3 catches fire, I don't believe it.
Aetsen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:30
Aetsen
I heard the PS3 runs really cool and quiet. That little kid is a douchebag.
Detry's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:33
Detry
I heard the PS3 is made of exploding plastic and gets your cat pregnant.
donkeykong's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:38
donkeykong
I heard the PS3 gets jealous if it sees you with a woman. The next time you turn it on it starts asking all sorts of questions and makes you sleep on the couch.
Aetsen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:46
Aetsen
WoW I HAs NO IdeA.
Vorin's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:53
Vorin
The Ps3 is a very angry mistress of the sea.....
linkreincarnate's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 18:55
linkreincarnate
Too bad they cant make those exploding laptop batteries go away as easily...
icarus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:09
icarus
"Or maybe in the call, Sony offered him MILLIONS to say it was fake."

You still think Sony has money left after making the PS3? Hahahahaha!
Zankyo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:12
Zankyo
PWnEd
Vorin's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:13
Vorin
Of course Icarus, do you realize how much Sony makes by enforcing child labor!?
Dyson's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:15
Dyson
:(
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:19
Jordan Devore
I heard the PS3 decreases your e-dick size by 5".
LarkOhiya's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:21
LarkOhiya
I heard the Ps3 is really a conduet for Hard Gay acceptance across all of finland.
SaintsWoe's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:36
SaintsWoe
sony should have sent him a free PS3 for his troubles, with a few pints of lighter fluid squirted over the internal components. Then he wouldnt have to lie about a PS3 burning down his house
Ha-Puken's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:39
Ha-Puken
@Grim
I've never heard of an E-Dick!? I suppose if you have an E-Dick, you don't have a real dick...
some_dude's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:48
some_dude
I think E-Dick is short (heh) for "Elongated Dick" which is another way of saying boner. Possibly, maybe... I really need an inbox for my e-dick... :(

P.S. - I heard the PS3 is actually a gateway to a Bizarro universe full of Sony promises that have been fullfilled. I know, FREAKY! All 4th dimension and shit.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 19:58
Niero
Ha! What a little bitch. Hopefully somebody will kick him off the island, and I mean that in a very deep and transcendent kind of way involving manic crying and severe loss of income in a critical stage of his middle life before he turns to casual drugs and gets really, really dry elbows.
ceark's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 20:11
ceark
I've had my ps3 on for 4 days straight. my roommates/spouses/neighbors/friends and I have been takin' turns using it nonstop no probs.

and we haven't hit anyone with our wii controllers yet either. or broken anything.
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 20:15
Topher Cantler
Damn, that kid sounds like a hostage in an Iraqi prison camp reading cue cards with an off-camera M-16 to his head.
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 22:15
deiga-the-semivaliant
Man, I effing love you guys. Honestly.

Words can't even begin to describe...
fordp's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/05/2006 22:27
fordp
I can attest to the fact that netnoob has been offered a settlement, not threatened with a lawsuit. Let's keep this on destructoid though.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/06/2006 01:02
Holyetheline
He was owned!
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/06/2006 02:06
Im OK
Shameless attention whore, or held down by The Man? The world may never know.

My guess is on shameless attention whore, though.

Now, if he had accused the PS3 of egging his house instead of burning it down, I would have totally bought that one.
Ballistic90's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/06/2006 09:28
Ballistic90
"How many licks to the center of a Sony conspiracy? The world may never know."

I'm not sure how hot they run, but what I do know is that at my workplace we had a Sony tech setup a PS3 and they couldn't get the controllers work. They told us they were broken. Same reliable Sony hardware, I see...
epoxi's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/06/2006 15:57
epoxi
LOL. Time for a "I think you are a P3N15!" petition?
dprime's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/07/2007 05:23
dprime
Why would they trust anyone who would write "owen" in the first place?

People should not be buying PS3s because they suck, not because they'll burn their house down.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2007 04:43
wardrox
I heard thr PS3 won an award for SIXAXIS
YkydatGamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/13/2007 12:40
YkydatGamer
Buullllshitt

The PS3 won an Award for a controller alright.

The Dualshock 2

Not the PS3 controller.

Newb...
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