This “news” comes straight from the angry father files. A Virginia family was having problems with their three children acting up as they played their Xbox, so the father took things into his own hands. Here is my guess as to how things went down.

The kids were arguing about which child was to blame for their parents forcing them to play games on a seven year old discontinued console. Just as they were about to point to the youngest one in curls, their father (lets go with a classy name like Jethro) walked in on them with beer in hand, belching words of encouragement as he ripped the black and green beauty from its trailer park wall.

Enraged that he would now have to put his beer down, the father grabbed a hammer, coughed up a few nails, and proceeded to smash Microsoft’s first attempt at console greatness into an unsuspecting and undeserving tree.

Finally the loving mother came home from her job (as a high paid corporate executive I’m sure), heard the news and rushed to keyboard to share it with the internet masses. The following is her post straight from ireport.com.

My husband had repeatedly warned our 3 boys about their behavior while playing the XBOX. Tuesday, after I arrived home from work, our oldest son told me to look in the backyard at “Dad’s artwork”. Well, I wasn’t surprised to see the XBOX proudly displayed on the nearest tree… way to go Honey!!!!!

Way to go Honey? I received my share of spankings growing up, don’t get me wrong, but my parents never ran to the local paper and asked to have my bare red ass cheeks posted on the front page.

I wonder if she will share the same level of satisfaction when he starts nailing the children and eventually her to massive slabs of bark in their backyard. Only time and Budwieser will tell.

[Thanks Phil]

Source: ireport.com (via: blogs.ign.com)

Tags: anger, angry father, console abuse, nail a tree, original Xbox, tree, Xbox

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6 Comments » greeneggsnsam on August 15, 2008 5:34 am That Xbox could have been a comfortable home to a family of midgets! Alicexia on August 15, 2008 1:29 pm Regrettably spanking your kids is now some kind of form of abuse. Tch. He’s going to regret it later when the kids find new ways of entertainment. madpuppy on August 15, 2008 4:04 pm how hard is it to just throw it away? or give it away? not like it is really worth anything. Rubberboyblue on August 16, 2008 10:07 pm The Dad was an engineer and the mother was a radiologist according to a local Virginia television report. He said he’d been doing yardwork all day, and when he came back in the house around 2 pm. his kids were still in their PJs and all 3 were fighting. He just finally got fed up with seeing his kids fighting and swearing while playing video games, and never leaving the house. From the report I saw he actually seemed like a sensible guy. Mykul on August 18, 2008 4:20 am Crucifixion of an xbox, wonder if we could starts a new religion? LMFAO!! Chibby on August 21, 2008 12:05 pm lol i woulda killed my dad RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.