If you're looking for a news story to restore your faith in mankind, this ain't it -- while en route to a monthly chemotherapy treatment for a brain tumor (the day before his birthday, no less), 7-year-old Kyle Springs and his family stopped in Dallas for a Denny's breakfast. As they left the building, with unassuming bellies full of Moons Over My Hammies, they discovered their car had been burglarized, and that thieves had absconded with Kyle's backpack, medical records, medication, and PSP.
The only uplifting facet of this otherwise soul-shattering tale is the fact that the Dallas police department had raised over $1,000 for Kyle within two and a half hours, replacing the PSP and games that he had lost in the parking lot heist. Unfortunately, the nefarious gentlemen who made off with the young man's handheld have yet to be brought to justice -- what kind of sentence do they assign people who steal adolescent cancer patient's portable electronics the day before their birthdays, anyways? Does Texas allow "jettisoning from an airlock into the infinite twilight of space" as an acceptable punishment?
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Yo Curmeo nice avatar I'll like to see that fight
360:FINISH HIM!! Xbox360 does RROD FATALITY Xbox wins FLAWLESS VICTORY?
PS3:FINISH HIM!! PS3 with the power of the cell? FATALITY PS3 wins FLAWLESS VICTORY
=p
Wait wouldn’t that be a Hara-kiri (Seppuku)?
Anyway that game is awesome I heard you can fight the Phantom if you enter a code during the Portal stage.
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You have my gratitude, Mikezilla.
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But seriously, PSP has good games now. The whole "lawl it's only good for hacking" thing is pretty much over.
Seriously though, a real bummer of an article. Which is not to say I'm not for its purpose--which at first I thought was a call to arms, only to realize Dallas' Finest already whooped our collective asses.
The plural of "ass," "asses," by the way, is hilarious.
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Unless the family made up this story, then what is our society coming to that families have to resort to shenanigans to raise money for their child's medical expenses.
Unless the internet is a lie, then what is our society coming to that all we do is react emotionally to a story we read without any impetus to confirm its reality.
*jumps under train
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It's too impossibly true.
I kinda feel bad for all the healthy kids that get things stolen from then and can't get them replaced.
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no douchdragon wasn't being sarcastic, he is that firmly clamped to sony's nuts.
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This is just dispicable. The "Airlock Justice" sounds about right!
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What if they had stolen a PSP from a wealthy, healthy kid? Why should the penalty be any different? Stealing is stealing.
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Damn... now I'm going to get voted down to oblivion.
Your comment looks liquored up, not that it's a bad thing.
But it should be: "I wonder the same with all fanboys"
Your an embarrassment for all fanboys Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo alike.
Check earlier posts in this thread... other people are making jokes too, and I'm the only one attacked.
Are you to tell me that you hate Sony so much that if you saw a person with a PS3 about to get stabbed, you'd ignore it and walk off without at least calling the police? I think not, so lets avoid the tasteless bickering consolewise, at least for this article, when another neutral PS 3/P article comes along, you are within your rights to go ahead and critisize PS3 with your opinions.
I'm sorry, I did a stupid little joke in the wrong thread. I'm not making fun of cancer... I know how horrible is that situation.
And of course, I will not ignore a person if they have a PS3... heck, eventually I will get a PS3, possible in my birthday next month.
It was a joke, very off topic, a joke to your comment Maverick.
Im sorry for this one. Honestly.
I would hate if that person was my sibling and they were either killed for thier DS or robbed like this while already suffering knowing that whatever console it was could have helped offer them a bit of happiness.
And what is the robber gonna use for the PSP for? Selling? Most likely. Funny enough, we say this, but the very robber could be on e-bay now selling it off.
NeoGeo Pocket? Come on now, that's pushing it.
Well, I guess I apologize about my make a wish joke too, I wouldn't want to offend anyone in the weepy fucking knitting circle on joystiq,
and fernando, don't feel bad, your anti-sony trolling and pendragon's sony suckofffest even each other out.
But seriously, who fucking cares that the kid has cancer? I had cancer, when someone vandalized my vehicle did it make it a more horrible crime whether I had cancer or not at the time?
Crime is crime. the disposition of the victim makes no bearing on the punishment deserved.
too bad the kid has cancer, but anyone else who gets their shit broke or stolen gets a "we'll look into it" not a $1000 prize from the cops.
Whether the kid had cancer or not is not the issue here, we already know the kid has cancer, all you've done is repeat what I already know, its the fact they stole from him, stealing, whether its from a kid with cancer or from me without cancer is wrong, it just happens to be worse when it involves murder, its just lucky this one didn't.
I'm sorry you had cancer, I've had folks die of it too, but don't you sometimes think there are more important things in life then virtual gaming?
This kid having cancer has no bearing on the crime, yet everyone here wants to hang em up!!! those bastards!!!
Like people were stalking cancer patients to steal from.
Directly to the point then: This is a non-story, the kid made out with $1000 that any other crime victim wouldn't have gotten, in fact anyone else would have been lucky to see an officer after filling out a police report.
It is sensationalist shit meant to get exactly the reaction from all the tards here on joystiq that it produced, ie "THEY NEEDZ TO BURNZ IN TEH HELLZ"!!
Espescially when it means the worse, a family member is stabbed for thier phone or money.
The cancer is irrelevant (not necessarily, but in context), the PSP is also irrelevant, there would have been an uproar still if it had been anyhing else.
Its not what they stole, its the actions of stealing, I am angered towards anyone who does it, or kills someone to do it, whether its a murder case or the vandalism of your vehicle, the people responsible for causing deliberate damage to your vehicle are just as bad as the people who stole this PSP, same thing.