Trade in your kid for a PS3

by Ed Stasick { Dec 5th 2006 at 3:00PM }

As crazy as it sounds, some folks are willing to give up their most prized possessions for the chance to win a PS3. According to PS3land, an on-air contest that started out as a joke, took an unexpected turn into the surreal:

A Minnesota radio host announced over the radio that if parents were willing to turn their children over to the station for 24 hours, they would give them a new PS3. "We got more calls than we could handle," said Dave Ryan, "They were lined up willing to turn their kids over to strangers for a freakin' PlayStation."

I can understand trading in a grandma, an uncle or a crazy neighbor, but your own kids for just a PS3? Maybe if they had thrown in a Wii and a TMX Elmo...

Tags: ps3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nick @ Dec 5th 2006 3:44PM

lol. omg. how could people give away their kids for a day just to get a ps3. Who knows how trusted the people at this site are and what they would do to the kids. the only way i could ever see anyone doing this is if the kid was 15 or older and the ps3 was for them and the kid chose to do it. but even then its crazy.

get over it @ Dec 7th 2006 12:33AM

one day of free babysitting and a free ps3... and they didn't think parents would jump on that?

zorax @ Dec 5th 2006 3:58PM

I would gladly hand over my sister's son for a PS3! ;)

nitefire @ Dec 5th 2006 6:18PM

That's Dave Ryan here in Minneapolis. So many people started calling in that they started a contest to see who would leave their kids with them the longest to get a PS3.

How much is a newly born child going for on eBay?

visionep @ Dec 5th 2006 4:46PM

I think it is disingenuous to report this as people willing to give up their kids for a PS3.

The radio station said "Give up your kids for 24 hours". Almost any parents of kids 4+ would freely hand their kids to a public company for 24 hours of daycare. It's not like the radio station could harm the children without extreme recourse.

If the station said "Give you kid to us so we can legally adopt them and remove them from your life permanently" then I would expect this type of reporting but come on, who doesn't want 24 hours without your kids every once in a while.

LuckyChowmeinDude @ Dec 5th 2006 5:06PM

lol PS3 fanboys are fat!

Andir2.0 @ Dec 5th 2006 7:45PM

It's like that old game of telephone, only marketed to try to get people to come to your site instead of theirs.

I will let you have this 10" ruler for that candy bar.

I hear that Andir will trade you a ruler that's about a foot long for a chocolate bar.

I heard that someone will trade a 12" ruler for chocolate.

I heard that people are trading measuring tape for one of those new chocolate cell phones.

Someone told me that people are actually trading some tape for a cell phone!

etc.... Try it with your kids, neighbors or friends. You come up with something, and are only allowed to tell them one time and they have to tell someone else, but they can only tell them once. When it gets back to you it's a completely different story.

Anticrawl @ Dec 5th 2006 5:24PM

That is how they get ya, but not me. I'd much rather have a kid, they complain a whole lot less than Sony hardware and the defect where their heart explodes is only 1 in 42million, plus the juices from the explosion aren't corrosive. Unlike the Sony's gaming systems, they will read if you hit them enough, they are entirely wireless, there are billions of little black/white discs to cram in em, run at a steady 3,000 frames per second even if they have a hick-up, and display in such sharp detail and clarity you'll think wine was actually just spilt on your new carpet. They can't make me pancakes like the Wii or grill lean burgers like the ps3, but they can fetch me my damn beer faster than a bottle of vodka at Courtney Love's house is downed, and that's just fast enough for them to take my shoes off before the commercial is over.

While they may not be able to solve a rubik's cube, they can throw eggs at the wall and cry quite proficiently.

Anticrawl