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A New Zealand toddler gave her parents a shock (to say the least) when she purchased a $12,000 Kobelco digger on an auction Web site. According to Australian newspaper The Age, Three-year-old Pipi Quinlan woke up before the rest of her family and made her way to the family computer. After booting up Internet Explorer, Pipi navigated to an online auction site called Trade Me. Since her mother's account was still logged onto the site, Pipi was able to click her way to a winning bid for the massive industrial digger.
The precocious little scamp said nothing about her purchase until her mother received an e-mail notification from the site confirming the sale.
Luckily for the Quinlan family, a quick phone call to the auction site cleared the mess up, and the digger was re-listed for auction. Is their toddler the next super cyber-hacking genius? We doubt it. She would have used Firefox. [From: The Age via Fark]
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Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
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Subscribe to commentstidekidMay 26th 2009 10:56PM
My god, why are people placing blame? It's not like anything bad came of it. It's just a funny story. Sure, maybe there's potential for a cautionary tale about logging out on a shared computer here, but why are people talking like she's a horrible mother who let her child play with drain cleaner?
JoannaMay 28th 2009 8:24AM
For all of you pointing fingers and bitching about the parents, and not bothering to read..............STFU
cayentaMay 28th 2009 12:24AM
I agree with 205 Chick, I would defintely be mad at my 3 year old and myself. First of all I would have told my toddler do not touch my laptop ,or you will be in timeout or something as a consequence. Three year olds do know when they are doing something that their not supposed to do; however,it is themother's fault for not logging out of the website.
joeomarJun 19th 2009 10:45AM
For all you sanctimonious parents detailing how YOU protect yourselves from your three-year-old purchasing heavy construction equipment online - we're really expected to believe you had the foresight for that? The article didn't describe how the account was still online - it may simply be a website that defaults to saving the user id, so that each time you open the website it recognizes you without logging on again (like Amazon or Google). It MAY be a good idea to turn that off, but mostly to prevent other people with access to your computer from doing that. There really aren't a lot of documented news stories around about 3-year-olds getting on computers and purchasing construction equipment. This happened in New Zealand. And it's nothing more than an amusing "who'da thunk it" story.
EricNegronJun 19th 2009 3:21PM
You can't watch them 24/7... You can't watch yourself for that long.
my youngest (15 months old) woke from his nap, climbed out of his crib, and got to my pc while I was listening to some music (very low) while doing dishes.(Hard to do when you're watching them 24/7).
I didn't know he was up until I heard the song I was listening to stop half-way.
When I went to see what happened (thinking the pc locked up or something), there he is standing on my chair tapping keys...
He erased almost 12,000 songs from my library !!!
(Between my wife and me, we have too many CD's)
It took me almost 6 months to rip them all back in...
I wish a simple phone call could have fixed that problem.