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Here's a heartwarming story of a dad who thought buying his son a pickup truck for his 16th birthday would be the best gift ever. . . And hey, so what if it was a bit of a beater?
Apparently the kid thought differently.
"You guys trying to make me look like a frickin' ****** in front of all my friends. . .You guys are gonna make me look like frickin' poor kid in front of all my friends," he shouted, as he beat the truck with a baseball bat. However given that the kid weighed about 110 pounds, no serious damage was done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyS5v6P4nhs&feature=player_embedded
And if you go to that website, there are other videos of the same boy freaking out for other reasons as well. *yikes*. What would you do if your child threw a fit like this? Or if you went to another child's party and they acted like this? Does money buy happiness? (keep in mind while watching this video that they have other expensive cars in their driveway.......)
bump? nobody finds this boys actions repulsive and has no opinion on what they would do?
I would be pissed at my child and probably ground them and then not get them a car. That is horrible when my kids do get there first car it wont be a nice new one because when i got my first car i ruined it.
I would take the truck away and just let him ride a bicycle. I watched another one of the cancelled wow account-he needs his butt straightened out.




That is horrible. At 16 I would have been happy to get anything for my birthday. Kids like him make me dread my kids hitting their teen years LOL. If he was my kid the truck would go back and he would not have another until he was 18 and out of my house.
i know! my first car was an '84 caprice! passed down through 3 generations! it was like a freakin tank. i managed to run off the road and into a guard rail and it didn't damage the car one bit! (the guard rail was messed up though lol). first cars are gonna get banged around and this kid was being ridiculous!
Quoting nessy1980:
I would be pissed at my child and probably ground them and then not get them a car. That is horrible when my kids do get there first car it wont be a nice new one because when i got my first car i ruined it.
I would never tolerate spoiled behaviors of ANY kind from my children. That said, I would also never buy my child a car that would be an embarassment or one would consider a "beater" for their 16th birthday either. JMO.
if thats how he acts over a truck-imagine what he would be like if someone cut him off in traffic or something. I so would not trust him on the roads-he needs to take anger management classes.
Quoting behappilyever:
i know! my first car was an '84 caprice! passed down through 3 generations! it was like a freakin tank. i managed to run off the road and into a guard rail and it didn't damage the car one bit! (the guard rail was messed up though lol). first cars are gonna get banged around and this kid was being ridiculous!
Quoting nessy1980:
I would be pissed at my child and probably ground them and then not get them a car. That is horrible when my kids do get there first car it wont be a nice new one because when i got my first car i ruined it.




Honestly, this doesn't seem like a real video to me. People with obvious money aren't going to buy their child a vehicle like that and give it to them as a present. Also, as a parent, I wouldn't let my child get anywhere near a serious present with a bat. Seems fishy to me.
That would be the last present he got except for his christmas socks and underwear until he learns how to appicate a gift.


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