Xbox vs Possibly Dead Dad
What will win out?
Posted 8 Jan 2009

It's your turn to save Dad!
You're 12 years old. You're called Ben Devey. You're in a car on the motorway with your dad and your two sisters. It's just before Xmas. For some reason you already know that your present is in the boot of the car; it's an Xbox 360.
Then your dad has a fit! The car swerves. Your sister (Zoe Leigh Devey,15) leaps into save the car and the family. Your mum is interviewed by the newspapers, here's what she has to say about you:
"Ben seems completely unphased though - the only thing he was worried about was the Xbox he had been given for Christmas which was in the boot of the car."
Young people today, eh? Faced with whether to worry about a potentially dead dad or their Xbox, they opt for the latter!
But it's not quite that cut and dry, "Once on the hard shoulder, Ben stepped in to stop his father from choking and Zoe made a frenzied call to her mother, who alerted 999 operators so they could trace the children's position."
He probably learned that from Call of Duty or America's Army or Trauma Centre! Ben's life-saving antics also gave the Mail no chance to run an anti-gaming story; three cheers for Ben Devey we say!
Source: Mailonsunday
Then your dad has a fit! The car swerves. Your sister (Zoe Leigh Devey,15) leaps into save the car and the family. Your mum is interviewed by the newspapers, here's what she has to say about you:
"Ben seems completely unphased though - the only thing he was worried about was the Xbox he had been given for Christmas which was in the boot of the car."
Young people today, eh? Faced with whether to worry about a potentially dead dad or their Xbox, they opt for the latter!
But it's not quite that cut and dry, "Once on the hard shoulder, Ben stepped in to stop his father from choking and Zoe made a frenzied call to her mother, who alerted 999 operators so they could trace the children's position."
He probably learned that from Call of Duty or America's Army or Trauma Centre! Ben's life-saving antics also gave the Mail no chance to run an anti-gaming story; three cheers for Ben Devey we say!
Source: Mailonsunday
Comments
1/5
Spong I get the feeling your taking the piss with some of your comments.
2/5
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
Spong I get the feeling your taking the piss with some of your comments.
Us? Take the piss? How dare you. We are po-faced, straight-laced Yorkshire-based Englishmen incapable of such action.
Tim
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3/5
I am Bens mother i dont know if i want to laugh or break your necks totally out of context and p.s he purchased the X-Box hiself with his xmas money!
4/5
Jacqueline Devey-Hipkiss wrote:
I am Bens mother i dont know if i want to laugh or break your necks totally out of context and p.s he purchased the X-Box hiself with his xmas money!
Hi Jacqueline! Thanks for posting. Please don't break my neck (the story was down to me). Glad everybody got home safely. And Ben even bought the Xbox with his own cash. The lad is indeed a star.
Happy New Year to you all.
Regards
Tim
email: tim@spong.com
Feel free to drop me a line (or get Ben to) and we'll see about coming up with a game for him.
5/5
Jacqueline Devey-Hipkiss wrote:
totally out of context and p.s he purchased the X-Box hiself with his xmas money!
Glad Ben and Dad are safe, but the issue over who bought the Xbox seems to be the Mail on Sunday's. I presume SPOnG is quoting verbatim from the Mail when they say (in speech marks) "Ben seems completely unphased though - the only thing he was worried about was the Xbox he had been given for Christmas which was in the boot of the car."
I must admit, when I was twelve, I had no perspective on the seriousness of events like the one Ben experienced, and if I'd had a hot new console in the trunk, I'd have been concerned about it too.
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