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Parents know that if you want t to get an unruly kid's full and undivided attention (and make them tremble either out fear or anger), all you need to do is hide the TV remote, disconnect the WiFi, and take away the video game controllers.A Canadian judge, who must be a parent, recently carried that family practice over to his courtroom when he ordered a young ruffian to hand over his Nintendo Wii. The Winnipeg Sun reports the troubled boy had been involved in numerous problems at school, including fights and instances of vandalism, so Judge Marvin Garfinkle decided that the creative confiscation of the Wii, and the promise of its return given certain requirements, might inspire the boy to curb his ways.
Some U.S. gamers might consider this the epitome of cruel and unusual punishment, but these types of atypical sentences, particularly for non-violent offenders, might be exactly what overcrowded U.S. prisons need. And, the sentence definitely beats getting sent to those teen boot camps. [From: The Winnipeg Sun via Yahoo]
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Subscribe to commentswayne8734Nov 5th 2009 5:39PM
way to go judge,if he's anything like my son it'll kill him and it just may work.
cindyjunedavisNov 6th 2009 1:07PM
Last year I was having a lot of problems with my son in school. He is high functioning autisic so behavior problems exist quite a bit. His teachers, principal, and others we all had a meeting. The rule is he has red days, (not good) yellow,(borderline)green which (a good day). Red he gets nothing but books to read, yellow a few other things, board games, green, his computer, Wii, and his other favorite things. He had only a few red days. He comes home in the green everyday. Take a mans toys away, he will straighten his act up!
darkwolf122490Nov 5th 2009 6:51PM
HA! that'll teach that kid to violate the law. and if he tries to moan and groan about his trial, he'll be laughed out of the room when he says what his punishment was.
jesswheel06Nov 6th 2009 10:35AM
Way to go! I am a gamer and a parent and I don't tolerate bad children. That's just a good idea compared to what I would've done.
KATHIENov 6th 2009 9:31AM
Are you kidding me?! His parents are the ones who should have had the brains enough to take the Wii away long before the little brat made his way to the court system?! Why is it so hard to parents to actually "parent" their childrend today?
Cates1222Nov 6th 2009 11:35AM
Kathie - AGREE TOTALLY! The judge should have ordered the parents attend parenting class, too - ridiculous that a JUDGE had to parent.
LiiNov 6th 2009 12:18PM
So true.
auntiebenNov 6th 2009 1:04PM
If you have kids, you know how difficult it is to take stuff away. I was a perfect parent to my sister's kids... when I had my own, I didn't want to make them cry... I regret it now.
ThaoNov 6th 2009 3:35PM
I completely agree. What a waste of judicial time. His parents should do their job and the court should do theirs. If its bad enough for him to even see a judge, I think it takes a bit more than taking away video games. How can anyone agree that this is a good idea? Is he THAT dependent on those games that he'll actually shape up. This disappoints me on so many levels.
ashaNov 6th 2009 10:50AM
What ever happened to a good old fashioned spanking? Why do we have to let our kids go to court and have their wiis took away? All this is going to do is desensitize these children to the huge cosequence of going to court. Courts should be a place that is feared to go ,a place that if you go to you know you royaly screwed up. But no lets give out crap sentences so that when he grows up you take away his iphone? SPANK the kid don't depend on someone else to raise your kid. It's the parents responsibility. I have 2 boys and i'm not planning on letting someone else teach them the differece in right and wrong. It's NO one elses responsibility!!
aasstor1018Nov 6th 2009 1:17PM
There is nothing wrong with a spanking. When my son acted up he got a good smack or two on the ass and was required to say thank you. Now, thirty years later, he's a fireman,we are good friends and he still says thank you. Sometimes we laugh about it when we hang out.
bettyjunedavisNov 6th 2009 1:20PM
Hon, you can get your hiney thrown in jail, or kids takien away. We live in a different world. So go ahead a beat them, takes a bigger person to discipline a child, without hitting. Try taking what they hold dear to them. A spanking goes away after it stops hurting. Take their stuff! I did and my boy is an angel now, well in comparison, to what he was like. Some people calling it bribs and threats, it is called responibility for your actions.
ANNETTENov 6th 2009 1:47PM
I hope your children will be able to put together a sentence with the correct spellings after you hit them.
tracis3rugratsNov 7th 2009 12:48AM
I think it's funny the judge confiscated his Wii. Poor kid now he'll have nothing to do. Ha Ha Cry Me A River. That's what more judges need to do to straighten these little punk a$$ kids up. I hope he doesn't get it back. Kids get too much given to them these days anyway. It'll be interesting to know if he receives anything for Christmas.
TCSNov 6th 2009 10:04AM
I agree, the parents should have done this instead of wasting a judges time. When my kids were younger, I did this exact same thing. Their grades were suffering so I took their Nintendo away. They were to get it back when and ONLY when their grades went up. This nearly killed them. However, they never made anything below a B again, and after 2 semisters of GOOD grades they got it back.
isisaquariaNov 6th 2009 1:43PM
They never below a "B" again. When did a B become a good thing?
TCSNov 6th 2009 2:44PM
isisaquaria -Someone who isn't able to make a complete sentence should be the last person to ask when a "B" became a good thing. I didn't say that ALL they got were "B's" however, when they brought their grades UP from C's & D's to A's & B's I was so much happier. Especially since BOTH my sons graduated valendictorian from high school and my oldest just graduated from Tulane University Law School, this past summer, at the TOP of his class. Now, when you can ask a more intellegent question, we'll talk again.
kerry wenrichNov 6th 2009 10:15AM
that was dumb this was not a situation for a judge this was an issue for the parents to tackle
Cindy StaufferNov 6th 2009 12:58PM
Kerry, obviously the parents did not do this or were unwilling to, the kid ended up in court for a reason, and if the parents can't control the did then the courts are left with coming up with a solution. It would indeed be a wonderful world if every parent assumed responsibility for their children
Cindy StaufferNov 6th 2009 1:03PM
Sorry that should read "can't control the kid"