Hey, parents: if you’re buying a used games console for a small child, do the right thing and check it out first yourself. That way, you’ll avoid what happened to poor little Eliso Tovar.
See, Eliso was treated to a late, late Christmas present from his mum last week. She took him to a Wal-Mart in Manatee County, Florida, and bought him a pre-owned PSP. All was well!
Until he took it home and turned it on. And found that the wallpaper was of a naked chick. And that the PSP had a memory stick inside it that was full of “hundreds of pornographic pictures”.
Wal-Mart offered to give the kid a new PSP game. Eliso’s mum, Tamatha, is having none of it, and wants a whole new PSP instead.
Mom Finds Porn on New PSP [Fox, via VE3D]
Grooveraider
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:22 PMWhat the hell is a parent getting a 6 year old a $100+ handheld anyways? What a spoiled brat! And damn Walmart for not inspecting the returned PSP. Goes to show how technically illiterate people are with technology – especially with video game consoles. We’re not dealing with cartridges anymore.
Darek
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:54 PMWow, so the Walmart guys didn’t even turn on the psp? How did they even know the PSP could work or not?
Does this mean if I trade-in a broken PSP to Walmart I would still get to trade it in and get the same price as a working PSP traded in?
Alchemist
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 5:20 PMI don’t think we have a Walmart in Australia.
cs
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 6:14 PMFree porn with psp purchase! sony should really run with this idea.After all most gamers are over 18+, guys, and well everyone likes porn.
Joshy206
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 10:01 PMSame thing happened months ago at a Dick Smith electronics store, but with a phone. Except it wasn’t just generic porn: it was of the employees at the store (and in the store) well, ‘fiddling with cartridges’.