Random: Father Steals "Gameboy DS" From Prize Machine With Help Of His Daughter

Good dad, teaching the kid not to let companies scam you.

We live in the age of entitlement.

Unreal, his child could have been seriously injured.

I want this "gameboy DS"! Where can I get my hands on one of those? 😜

Really? You are going to risk your kid and jail for some games. Woo, when that kids’s mom finds out what happened... there’s gonna be some furniture moving...

For those wondering what the "gameboy DS" actually was, photos from the incident show it being a New 3DS XL , particularly the red version.

In terms of what happened, I can't believe this dude actually brought his daughter along to do this, talk about child endangerment.

bet the kid was happy with the goodies

I hope he gets away with it n the kid gets to keep the expensive electronics

n it was probably the kids idea

No video, did not happen.

Aw man, I wish I had a kid. I didn’t know it came with these types of perks.

Also, I want to play one of these for real. I’ve never seen one and they sound fun (I’m a sucker for these machines - yes, I know I’m wasting my money).

Ahhh, family bonding!

So that's how you win those games... huh...

Let’s not tell your mother what we did princess

I wonder if he got inspired by Manbiki Kazoku

@Tasuki I mean, they kinda could be liable. Your machine shouldn't be something a 2 year old can get into.

Did he manage to get one of those SNES Us while he was at it?

So what are they going to do, charge a toddler with committing a crime? lol

@Clamango Sounds like the original 2DS, it is pretty much the closest thing we ever got to a "Game Boy DS."

@nonprophetmusic Least I can spell the word profit.

@JayJ Charge the father with child endangerment, carries a one year sentence.

@Skunkfish The father sounds scummy but knowing how these things rip everyone off I hope he gets away with it.

@BensonUii

I'm glad you put the /s. A lot of comments on here make me think there are a lot of terrible people on this site...but I think most of them are just forgetting the good ol' /s....at least I hope so...

Given how much of a con those sorts of machines are I actually applaud the man’s efforts. It’s like trying to cut through washing line with safety scissors.

At least the grabber machines have some chance of winning.

@DavidMac
"Least I can spell the word profit."

That sound is the sound of the joke going over your head.

I bet a lot of kids would love to have a parent like this who actually BOTH spends time with them and gets them expensive toys.

@DavidMac and they can spell prophet. We all win! @nonprophetmusic Your name always makes me play this: https://youtu.be/6n9YQVfuFUk

Natural selection was not effective!

@nonprophetmusic Well that user was an easy Ignore button for me
Your name always makes me think of Lost Prophets, btw

And this story reminds me of an episode of The IT Crowd, when Moss tries to get an iPhone from a claw game and winds up left inside the machine for the remainder of the episode.

@PhilKenSebben prophet isn’t the same as prophet. Plays on words need to make sense. Music can’t be a prophet, it would need to be prophetic. It’s either misspelled or incorrect grammar.

@DavidMac
Christian Rock would be prophet music

@shaneoh they could argue it was prophetic not prophet. A prophet is a person. A creative work like a writing or a song would be considered prophetic.

This would be akin to among yourself nonpresidentbehaviour rather than non-presidential behaviour.

@DavidMac
As a reasonable amount of the music is about Jesus, who is a prophet of the Christian faith, then it is still a valid interpretation. Prophetic music would be a song predicting the future.

Did the toddler have to cut the string to get the prizes? The dad should know better; scissors are dangerous!

@DavidMac - not all puns need to make exact grammatical sense to work - and I'd argue that most don't. Also, you could absolutely have Prophet music if it was made by / or made for prophets. The music itself doesn't necessarily have to be the thing that is prophetic.

@setezerocinco did happen. There is video. This is about a half hour from where I live so I’ve seen it on the local news like 3 different times yesterday. Two kids took cell phone videos of it and reported him, I laughed at first because I thought it was an older kid doing it that was in the vid- but then you see a TODDLERS head pop out of the machine to give him a Switch

@DavidMac I wont argue you from a grammar stand point. Heck, I wont argue you at all. I was just making a joke. It is decent pun and nice group name though.

@DavidMac I’m impressed by your ability to spell a six letter word, and simultaneously be straight up clueless. However, I am nonprophet, and my username is nonprophetmusic, so I can be easily located, should someone have the ability to Google.

@PhilKenSebben When my work initially started hitting streaming services and digital storefronts, they lumped me in with them. Haha. I got them to sort it out rather easily, and I’ve been contacted on a couple occasions by people looking for them.

@HobbitGamer I wanna say I’ve heard a handful of their songs, and I was a little bit fond of them. Not wholly familiar, however. I look forward to the day when I’m associated with my music. Lol

@DavidMac
Probably should have got a degree in not taking things so seriously. So here's a dictionary for you:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/prophetic?s=t
predictive; presageful or portentous; ominous:

@PhillKenSebben I absolutely will - they're a grammar nazi talking about sterilising people on a Nintendo forum. That takes a special type of person. Throwing around a degree as a sign that 'I win any argument so don't bother talking to be about grammar' is also a fun tell.

@nonprophetmusic You're impressed by my ability to spell a six letter word? I guess that's Betsy Devos at work.

"I want this gameboy DS! Where can I get my hands on one of those?"

@Clamango Well not in the BarBerCut Lite in Salem, that’s for sure!

@DavidMac And now I’m less embarrassed that you, I and my father appear to share names. I think the kids would call that, “savage.” Get ‘em with that social commentary. Maybe it’ll fix Flint’s water supply or free those children from their cages. I don’t want everything to go to Hell, but whatcha gonna do?

HA! there's even a video:

https://www.facebook.com/SalemNHPolice/videos/285878062017572/

@DavidMac - just out of curiosity - have you ever written to Paul McCartney in complaint of The Beatles name? I mean, that's not how you spell beetle - and a beat / beats can't be spelled like that in any circumstance. What is that foolishness all about?

@nonprophetmusic Good for you I guess. Though quite frankly embarrassing people in public is a hobby of mine.

@LaVelle no.

@DavidMac Gonna assume it’s usually yourself, if this is any indication.
@LaVelle I have. Friggin’ hacks, I tell ya.

@nonprophetmusic
Beat me to it. XD. Mind you, it was such a large target.

@nonprophetmusic I honestly tried getting into the Beatles because everyone says they're so great. But I feel like most of the people these days who like them who didn't grow up with them are musicians who end up liking unique things done with instrumentation or something or can appreciate how they were basically the fathers of pop, or whatever.

I try to remind myself that they were one of the first groups that actually did multi track arrangements and stuff, and that all their stuff was cut on tape. But I find that I enjoy their songs a lot more when I hear them covered by bands using modern recording techniques.

I'd argue against the fact that those who appreciate the Beatles in this day and age are more likely to be musicians themselves. Not to derail the comments section even further, but I think a major element to their success will always be the way they broke ground whilst still remaining extraordinarily accessable. Even their more experimental stuff is packed in with - as you say - those pop sensibilities.

@DavidMac Then you’ll be somewhere in the ballpark of elated and or disappointed to find I’m working on, “Come Together,” with a friend that basically had to twist my arm to get me to. Haha. Once I started producing the instrumental, I couldn’t stop myself. I can’t say I’m not a fan, but they definitely aren’t... not everything they did was my cup of tea. I can’t deny them their right to the level of acclaim they achieved. You wanna talk pioneering technique though, I take my hat off and burn it with respects to Queen and Freddie. Limitations are awesome things to work with because no matter how limited you are or feel, you can work with that. We’re clogging the good Nintendo Life’s comments and have horribly derailed them.

Ahem

GAMEBOY DS WOT N OUR NATION

(I know what I did, DavidMac, DO NOT EVEN.) Lol

@nonprophetmusic Oh were they the ones who did Come Together? Now wonder that song gets used so much. I just think of Nortel Networks. (Who after a quick Google, apparently went bankrupt and got their assets acquired by somebody else.)

If you want some good Beatles covers, look into the House of Heroes cover EP, pretty fun. The songs make no sense though.

Where’s the mother and what does she think of this?

@nonprophetmusic Ha. I can imagine you did get lumped in there. Anywhere I can check out your stuff? I love music man.

@LaVelle I hear ya, but I just dont have the energy. I moderate at another site, plus my irl job is basically moderation and being a bouncer with a dash of social worker, so I've had my fill today.

@DavidMac So in a way... they came together? Eh? Ehhhh? Eh. I will look into them. If you’re a fan of covers, look into The Protomen. They did a live Queen album, and it was incredible. Not to mention an album called The Cover Up, and... so much good music.

@Don If we’re being honest, she’s probably on Facebook and or Tinder. What does she think? Who even knows. For all their sakes, I hope this all blows over for them. It, aside from the theft, was all relatively harmless, and hopefully this can serve as a wake up call. His child could have been hurt.

@PhilKenSebben http://nonprophetmusic.bandcamp.com/releases
Pro tip, if it tells you have to buy it after listening too much, open an incognito window. Continue free listening.

Plz dun ban meh, Nintendo Life. Haha.

Being in USA, at least he didn't shoot the cabinet.

3DS for the daughter and Switch for the Dad, it's a happy ending for the family. What a great story.

@BensonUii obviously this is completely wrong and Bandai should be held responsible for allowing these people to steal from Nintendo. This 3DS and Switch being taken from a machine that works hard for its money is absolutely indecent and everyone involved should be executed.

If they want a Nintendo product maybe they should just not eat for a few weeks and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. In my day, which hasn't started because I'm a child living with my parents who buy me video game consoles, you had to walk up hill both ways to sell your ass to be able to afford a game console.

People nowadays are so entitled, it's good that a majority of Nintendo products aren't bought by parents to shut up their whiny kids. /s

@setezerocinco here's the video from the cameras https://www.facebook.com/SalemNHPolice/videos/285878062017572/

whats worse here is not the theft itself but the child endangerment. As you can see the box is too tight and what he did is very dangerous for his daughter

My kids, I own 'em

@dimi that is insane!!!!

As the physical danger would only be a certain risk, while the moral example is guaranteed to set the child on the wrong path, the worst is how this is telling the child that one should simply take what one wants. It basically guarantees a negative impact on this person for a long time, as the mind will wrestle to justify why it deserves this item.

Of course, playing one of these machines is actually sending the same message to the child about attempting to get what one does not deserve, although without the part about how anything is permissible as long as you feel a need.

If the BarBerCut Lite is like their similar cabinets, they deserve to get their prizes stolen..

You can select how much profit is needed before it'll allow a drop, and you can do this for every prize-tier..

It's only skill-based if there's been enough losers before you. Imo it should be required to be printe in big bold letter on the cabinets.

(still doesn't make it right to involve a kid in your criminal activity, or put them at risk of harm, but I can't feel sorry for the owner when his scam-machine' gets robbed).

Me and my friend once blew all our quarters on a Stacker machine trying to win a Nintendo DS.

I might be like "Vengeance Is Mine !!!" for all the hundreds of $$$ I've blown on those (what should be) illegally adjusted machines, but he didn't do this for his kid, from the description of the kid, he did it for himself, using his kid as the tool towards his own selfish end, so no, not right.

@DavidMac You mean teach your kid to be a criminal, and to expect things for free.

@G-Boy Piss off

@DavidMac haha. I come here to get info on games and I find a debate on someones name! You are ALL off topic. I am a Prophet! I am the Harbinger of DOOM. and... out of this i am making a profit with my new book "how to profit being a prophet"

@PLAYwithGregg I'm sorry for offending you, I guess my deprecation of the US can be a bit toxic sometimes.

Utterly deplorable. As a parent with 7- and 5-year olds, this man's actions deeply offend me.
I thought stuff like that only happens in cartoons.
God have mercy on his children.

@DavidMac I wouldn’t call the one child policy good. Now China has like 1 woman to every 6 men.

@Tirza That would only happen if the cabinet was a high school student unfortunately.

Was the child's hair curly? Was her name Sue?

Well I'll just say: good on them. Stick it to the man! In an altercation between man and claw machine, who takes the side of the claw machine?! That toddler is probably playing Kirby or Mario and having the time of her life.

@NIN10DOXD Not so dramatic. The sex ratio was just 117 male:100 female (between 2000 and 2013). Now its stabilized.

@dimi They still outnumber them by 33 million. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

That reminds me of the one time in late 1988 when my mom and her two girlfriends broke into a Detroit factory area that handled glass soda/beer bottle recycling.

They came back with with multiple bags and then took me along with their two girls and made us carry some back as well. It was very dark, smelly, and lots of broken glass everywhere. Very exciting tbh! They almost got caught too, lol.

They ordered three large pizzas, got pop and beer, and rented a Nintendo (Super Pitfall, womp womp) game for us.