Feb 8 2011Mother Asks Microsoft For Forgiveness After Son Racks Up Whoppin' $1,700 XBox Live Bill

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What a bunch of idiots. What ever happened to taking responsibility for your actions?

i'm so hungry i could ride a horse.

NEEDS more lesbian sex!!!!!

That kid looks like pure evil.

@ 3 thats what she said.

I'd like to congratulate "I own" for being first....

Also, I'd like to say that mom looks like April from Eastbound and Down...

So why did they trust an 11-year old with an xbox? wtf is he even playing? Give him a gamecube and mario party or something...

@7

I know what your mom looks like. I say her last night......in bed Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Cough* oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Long last the robots!

Katie Mixon is hot, this mom is not

it's called don't leave you card number on the account

"'It is impossible to monitor everything your children do. These companies should take some responsibility."
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Oh, you mean by doing something like installing parental controls on the Xbox 360?
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Oh, that's right! The Xbox 360 HAS parental controls (and it's the ONLY console that does!)
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I'm sick to death of parents expecting 'society' or companies to keep track of what their own children are doing. That's up to the PARENTS!

'When he is in gaming mode he can't be thinking about the money. You can't put all that responsibility on a young boy."
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That's right, you can't. You put it ON THE PARENTS!!!

'When he is in gaming mode he can't be thinking about the money. You can't put all that responsibility on a young boy."

Yeah, how you dare you expect a child to think about anything other that gaming. I want to punch that lady in the face.

On the show Katy Mixon gets that same weird stare.... like this:

http://img003.lazygirls.info/people/katy_mixon/katy_mixon_eastbound_down__0HLIcHp.sized.jpg

I love how the 11 year old has some chick as the wallpaper on the xbox.

Can anyone read the gamertag? We could send him messages!

I'd totally fuck that mom. Just throwin' that out there.

@8 I got my xbox when i was 7, so maybe you just weren't mature enough. Im 13 now. Every 11 year old has a 360, also, that kid looks like jonah hill.

Jesus christ, if you enter in his age as a minor - like he is - you can make it so he can't make purchases without a credit card. It's not like Microsoft thinks kids should be able to handel credit cards - but if stupid parents give there kids a carton of ice cream and say "just take one bite!" what do you think they're going to do? completely rediculous. Take responsibilitys for your actions!

STRIPPING. THAT'S ALWAYS THE ANSWER

Never mind. The kids name (from the 2nd link) is Brendan Jordan and the gamertag appears to be Br3ndan j0rdan

Mophead Mcsadface. BEST.NAME.EVER

Also, if I was Bill Gates I'd tell the mother to get her tits out and I'll knock off $500.

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What game has $1700 worth of DLC?

That kid's mom looks like a hooker.

I agree that the mom should take some resposabilities but, I'll junp on the occasion to point out how microsoft (and if I'm not mistaken) the other console companies have all their system in points. 800 points! What does that mean to a 11 year old boy? Are those the point you gain by collecting acheivement? No! Those are useless.
The point system only have two purpose: one - make it confusing to figure out how much something really cost and two - make it so you always have some point left over but enough to buy something else you want so you end up spending on crap or buying more point. This is really insidious. How hard would it be to display the price of the thing you buy in your local currency according to the country you've set up in your account? Pretty esay, that's how.

@18, And clearly I do not approve of this. What games did you need to play that you got an xbox at 7? lol, I was playing smash bros and animal crossing (believe it or not, that was a great game back then).

well, his mom looks like a cheap whore, so I got a way she can make up the money. $5 at a time at least.

@27 I would not pay $5 for her. But maybe my standards are too high. let's take a poll. Who would be willing to pay $5 to have sex, or whatever you want, with his mom?

that mother should be bitchslapped and that kid should be dropped in a vat of acid for being a fucking retard.

'It is impossible to monitor everything your children do. These companies should take some responsibility. They take advantage of vulnerable people.'

MY ASS!

Not gonna lie. Redhead with big tits and I'm pretty much in.

That is why they have points cards and xbox live renewal cards. you do not need to put a debit/ credit card to make it work. as for the kid, he is like all other kids. It is not his money so he does not care. all he wants to do is play his mind numbing video game ( my son would do the same if i let him).

Be a parent and tell your kid NO! if he needs it that bad find a away to save his money or get a job after school and on weekends and earn some money.

I'm a microsoft representative and I say, TITS OR GTFO, LADY!

So tempted to send him an XBL message addressing his mother's tits..

This is a very similar article except it deals with apple products and applications.
Here, a child racks up a 1400 dollar debt from playing Smurf ville or something...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020706073.html?hpid=topnews

I fully agree with 11 and 31:
Either the mom is an idiot and let her son put her debit card # on the Xbox or the mom is stupid and didn't notice that her son stole her card and was using it for the Xbox. Either way, how do you NOT notice those types of charges for SIX MONTHS!?

@25:
Microsoft is by far "the f*ckest-uppest" when it comes to their points system because Nintendo points are equivalent to a cent apiece. WTF does $10 get you 800 points, that's just mentally challenged (to be politically correct) and, yes, a way to get people to lose track of exactly how much they've spent. Playstation went the smart (honest/fair) way and just stuck with the points system that everyone is familiar with: individual cents... what a novel fecking idea.

and thats why you should by your kid the prepaid cards you idiot!

Clearly I think the kid is an idiot. But I do agree with the mom, there should be a password you have to enter each time to spend money. However, no amount of passwords will make up for careless parenting or idiocy, don't you ever pay bills??

im still wondering how big is his dam hard drive, 1700$ worth of data!? thats alot
but one more reason why ps3 wins xD lol

Weekly Perm for Mom and Child - $80 x 4 = $320

Moms Boot Budget - $300 Per month (assuming from this picture)

Selling the Ugly Ass overpriced leather couch - $200 (its still ugly but in good shape)
Total: $820

The rest could be made up by spending more time with your child maybe teaching him about finances and how money works. Problem solved, take the fucking kid outside put him on a leash and get him some exercise. That way you wont even have an X-box live subscription to pay for.

It took me ten minutes to save her a few bucks every year and get rid of half that bill. Im fucking awesome.

Disconnect the thing. Let him read a book. Pay attention to your kid. I hope Microsoft doesn't cut a dime. Take ad vantage my foot. The problem is you non-existent mom!

And get that kid's hair cut.

@12 PS3 has parental controls as well.

Its people like this that i shake my head at. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN YOU PRETTY MUCH GAVE YOUR 11 YEAR OLD ACCESS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

@35 - Remember that points are bought with many different currencies. If everything you have is rated in points, then you only have to worry about the cost of points in currency. What if 1c = 1 point in the US, and 1p = 1 point in the UK? everything's twice as expensive. Do you force everyone to only buy things in USD?

I'm fairly sure this exists to allow for consistent pricing worldwide.

"But Dawn wants her experience to be a lesson to other parents and blames Microsoft for making it 'too easy' for her son to spend the money."

Or learn to set up parental control, or even better, not to leave your credit card details everywhere you enter them >.>

If i was his mom, I would set a "pass code" which requires you to input a 4-combination code using the buttons on the controller each time you make a purchase, but I wouldn't tell that fat ass the code.

or better yet, not buy him an xbox until he is of proper age.

When did responsibility get taken out of a child's education? I knew how to keep track of money when I was 11. I also knew not to steal from my parents!

This mother should have explained how all that works and told him not to do that. She should ask the microsoft people if there is something that kid can do to work off the debt. Teach him something and fix the problem!

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Seriously, i don't think there is a single XBox 360 game that requires a subscription.

Also, i'm pretty sure that kid is the illegitimate offspring of King Buzzo. When was the last time The Melvins toured the UK?

If I ever did something like this, I'd be paying for it for 3 years out of my allowance or had to get a freaking JOB to pay for it myself! What world do these people think they live in where everyone else gets to foot the bills for their idiocy and never had to be responsible for their own actions? This is definite one of the rare cases where I firmly stand on MS's side and I hope MS XBox sue these people for the entire bill, AND the judge tack on an extra 50% stupidity tax on top of what's owed.

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"When he is in gaming mode he can't be thinking about the money. You can't put all that responsibility on a young boy."

That's why it's YOUR responsibility as his mother to not put your credit card info on his XBox and not monitor it.

I'd bust her balloons for five bucks, yo.

massive tatas

Yes there is a lot to be said about parents more actively watching their kids purchase actions while on XBL, but also MS makes it hell and thensome to remove a credit card once tied to an account. They want people to make stupid purchases on overly priced pictures and codes hidden behind misleading points and numbers that don't clearly tell you how much you are spending. You aren't spending money, you're spending *points*.

I read about how a little toddler ended up accidentally buying a year's subscription to XBL on a parent's account. System on, A button 3 times and there it was, a $50 charge to the guy's credit card. It's one of those things where you'd think 'why would I need to child proof my account? purchase sections of XBL aren't that easy to access, are they?'

Forget parental modes and all that. The best option is to never give MS your CC information. Live off purchased points and subscription cards at the store. Otherwise you'll see lots of stories like this possibly happening to you. I enjoy my 360, but I know better than to trust MS with my CC info because of stuff like this and other tales I've heard.

you should pay triple fer trying to blame microsoft fer yer ineptitude at parenting.

@Mouser It's easy to remove a credit card from your account. I've done it multiple times.

And who the hell gives their kid unlimited access to their credit card? Stupid parents, that's who. If my kid wants a game, it will either be purchased under my name, or I'll buy them Microsoft points at Target.

If this was me, I sure as Hell wouldn't want to take it to the news and have everybody see what kid of idiot I was, and what kind of idiot I was raising...

Hooooooly SHITTHATKIDISUGLY!!!
That being said, I agree with everyone above--Tits or gtfo.
Also...I've had a 360 for 5 years and I don't think I've spend 1700 dollars total. (I have a hundred XBLA games) What "game" has this much dlc?

I wonder why the kid is so fat? hmm I can't think of any reason can you?

Have you guys all forgotten that this lady didn't check her credit card statement IN SIX MONTHS? What kind of person doesn't check their own credit card balance in six fucking months?

Anyway, Microsoft has already been paid. It's Visa who wants dat cash.

I' m with Adam. I used to work with the XBLA team, we laughed at stories like this all the time; most aren't idiotic enough to take it to the media however. It is retardedly easy to remove your credit card info. I assume he told her "but mom, I can't go online without a credit card number!" No, you can, you just can't buy sh*t anytime you want. It's called a Silver Account, you're a douche, your mom's a dumb*ss, and now everyone on the internet knows about it.

*** Add-on: Nice tit-tastic image on your dash, by the way. Way to scream "Mother of the year" when you're trying to play the innocent victim. XD

I'd f*** the shit outta that mommy

@STFUP
You've GOT to be dumber than brenden if you truly believe that the 360 is the only console with Parental Controls.

On topic, Brenden knew what he was doing. At 11 years old, he knows how to count and he knew that he needed a card to "BUY" the stuff he wanted. You can't rack up over $1,000 bill and NOT know that. He knew the games costed money and he knew he had his mom's card info in the system and therefore, he took it upon himself to make the action to "PURCHASE"them. It's in big obvious numbers the price of the games BEFORE you buy them. He downloaded over 100 things in order to get a bill that high and he knew that it cost money to do so.

@12
Wii, 360 & PS3 ALL have parental controls ya douchebag.

HEY, ITS PEGGY BUNDY!!!

Microshaft sux balls never enter your credit card always use the xbox gift cards. Microsoft burned me for $60 when my 6yo clicked on a points bundle. Good Luck! If I were you I'd be collecting cans to buy that kid a flowbee.

What's with that saucy looking bg on his xbox live?
Is he really 11?

Where's the father in all this? Oh yeah, he's the sad sack trying to make up his mind whether those huge tits are worth the effort of hanging around his gimpy kid.

YOU LIE! All DLC on live can only be purchased once in a certain time frame. It will purchase and then change from "buy now" to "download again". Download again is free since you already bought the dlc. It would also take a heap of games to have that much of a dlc cost. I dont think it allows you to stack subs like that either and in 6 months at one a month even selecting the year long sub wont rack that much up.

Two words bitch: PARENTAL CONTROLS!!!

Somehow, I wish I could swap soul with that kid right now...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Didn't that kid go for a joyride in The Dude's car?

THIS FAMILY IS EVERYTHING THAT'S WRONG WITH AMERICA

regardless of what people think of MS or the xbox, this woman basically gave her son access to use her credit card so its her fault. i`m an adult and theres no way my parent would give me access to theirs now, never mind when i was 11. there are parental controls for a reason. she is the same type of person who`ll complain that video games are too violent but then get her son GTA or some other game with an 18 certificate.

So it was a DEBIT card, not a credit card. If this lady is really on that tight of a budget, how could she not have noticed almost $300 a month disappearing from her account? Also, there is no "bill" as the money has already been subtracted from her account. On the plus side, she has just racked up 1700 Mommy experience points--priceless.

Does anyone else think it's weird that the hottie on the kids' dash looks just like his mom? Ewwwwww

Well, I think the law depends on the state, and I'm not all up on teh computerz, but at least in my home state, if a kid buys or sells something without permission, or even if they have regrets about it, the contract (sale) is voidable. So, if your kid buys a toy, and then wants to return it to the store they have to take it back. I would imagine the same would apply here.

OTOH, WATCH YOUR DAMN KIDS!

What a dumbass.

That kid should be made to work off his debt with chores. The mother is batshit.

It's easy to hate on the mom! But how many moms out there have a clue how Xbox live works!? I don't, and I played a lot of xbox in the day--though never live. For people who may spend a lot of time on Xbox live, it is easy to be trapped in your paradigm and not be able to relate to a working mom's world. And you know what?....what the heck is wrong with at least "asking" Microsoft for the break? Maybe they feel generous and help her out...maybe they don't. Have none of you out there never asked for a break when getting a speeding ticket? Paying a fine? Trying to work a better price on buying something? No harm in asking. If you don't ask, you can't get it, right? So easy to hate from your computer at other people...let's hope others are more tolerant of our mistakes than some fo you are to her!

But I realize that rational "look at both sides" inteligent thinking isn't something that porn dowloading masterbating game geeks are probably going to be able to achieve...

And to the poster that said this family is what is wrong with America...she is in Brittain...notice the British pound sign before the dollar amount...

And those bagging on the kid being ugly aren't probably winning any GQ contests anytime soon themselves.

80th
they're Romulan

this story is out of the UK, and the dollar amount of 1700 is actually in pounds...hence the symbol that is not dollar sign. so this is closer to 3000 dollars

@81 I'm afraid your wrong dude it's actually just over £1000 U.K. that the kid spent which was translated to $1700 U.S. This story came from my local news station.

Well done putting your gamertag out to the world press Br3ndan j0rdan. Next story your skank mum will be selling off to pay her debts will be about the abuse you received for being a dickhead. I've already sent him my 5 quids worth feel free to join me.

" Don't hate just because your babysitter ended up being more than you expected!" I'm going to use this now every time someone b*tchs about how much gaming systems are. FTW

@79. rourk: When your bank account information is on the line, you're liable to scrutinize whatever software you're feeding it into, isn't that right? Obviously she and/or her son knew enough about the console to input the appropriate information in the first place.
Microsoft doesn't need to "forgive" anything. This is sheer stupidity on the part of someone who doesn't look like she'd miss $1,700 much from the appearance of her living room.

What kind of parent ignores or allows her 11 year old son to have that playboy picture as a background image anyway? Doesn't look like she pays much attention to this boy, which is where his financial ignorance stemmed from. Blame and repercussions belong on the breeder's shoulders, not Microsoft's.

@Rude rockband probs has that many

This is why I hate stupid parents and kid gamers.

I know 2 of you have brought it up already, but SERIOUSLY check out the background image that kid put up as his wallpaper. I know the sex vs violence hypocrisy is (sadly) the opposite in the UK and USA, but that wasn't *kinda* a sign that this grotty lil' wanker was up to no good? Look at pissant little face! Its like he's suppressing a smirk.

I bet he has that same, high pitched, cockney little accent i have to put up with hearing during my COD matches or the "related" youtube videos i click on by accident looking for another.

*Heavy breathing, occasional scratchy mic feedback from mishandling camera*

"OY, mate, 'is here's meh respose video over 'on Cyb3rM0nkeh6969's response video, on 'ow tah foind all 'eh intels in 'is heres SEE-OH-DEH Blahck Hops."

*Grainy Standard-Def TV footage at an angle, with that crazy white refresh strobing across screen, only to be interrupted by a monocle-wearing Corgi walking in front of the screen*

why does he have a ps3 controller.

Maybe that kid would benefit from less Xbox time and more physical activity time... and a hair cut as well.

That's what 11-year-olds look like these days?

Yikes. I don't want to imagine that fat fuck at 30 or 40. If he lives that long.

His moms got some nice tits /ak3k32lk3r fe

His moms got some nice tits /ak3k32lk3r fe

His moms got some nice tits /ak3k32lk3r fe

When i was that age, I already knew the value of a dollar, and how to not screw around with stuff that isn't mine. at 11, i was already buying stuff on eBay with my mom's debit card, and i knew not to spend more than what I gave her. It's the parents' fault for not teaching the child about finances, and the kid's fault for being a moron. I sincerely hope that Microsoft makes them pay every cent.

I wouldn't do it just cuz the kid is so bloody ugly, afro..c'mon. I just want to give the kid a good whop in the face and call it a day.

kid looks like a fat tim burton... or just tim burton

If iwould have done something like that when i was 11 years ld my mom wouldent have asked microsoft for forgiveness she would have beat the shit out of me!!

Anyone else think that kid looks like the Grinch?

haha just added him on live