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[brian577]

People are acting like these people are the worst parents in the world when in actual fact they're trying to help their son fund a round the world trip with $20,000 they're getting from the sale of their house. None of which they have to do!

You call it helping, I call it bribery.

 

[DeadTsar]

I don't get the people calling this affluenza.

Who in the article are displaying the symptoms? The parents who want to sell the cat for 140,000, and are offering their son a choice? The son who wants to travel overseas and needs money but loves his cat? The family who offered 140,000 on top of the house price for the cat?

To be honest, the only people I feel slightly annoyed at are the buyers. And thats only because they have more money than sense.

 

[MilkyJoe]

You don't pass up 130K for a freaking cat.

There's a billion cats, take a new one.

I would

 

[Zomba13]

Westerners have this weird fixation with pets...

Yeah, it's almost like they get attached to a creature they look after and care for after years.

 

[Cookie18]

You call it helping, I call it bribery.

Well you also said you'd disown your own parents over a pet so we all know where you stand on the matter.

 

[RandyBobandy]

Don't even need to click the thread to know it would be rich white people

 

[Petrie]

From the article



Sounds like it's his cat that he payed for with his money.

Sounds like the parents cat since at 15 you don't have your own money it all belongs to the parents. As do any possessions.

 

[AtomskEater]

Sounds like the parents cat since at 15 you don't have your own money it all belongs to the parents. As do any possessions.

If you mow lawns or babysit at 15, you're lucky if your parents deign to leave whatever money you've worked for alone?
Is their some actual law on the books saying teenagers can't have money or their own possessions?

The kid should sell his parents cars and give them 1/7 of the money he got for them.

Okay, I laughed.

 

[maniac-kun]

The kid should sell his parents cars and give them 1/7 of the money he got for them.

 

[Joker85]

Amazing thread. The mix of smug self satisfaction tinged with bitter envy and resentment is quite the combination.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Sam should tell them to eat a bag of syphilitic dicks, imo

Amazing thread. The mix of smug self satisfaction tinged with bitter envy and resentment is quite the combination.

 

[FormallyMegadrive]

“We’re thinking we’ll put $20,000 in a pile next to the cat and say to Sam: you choose.” She said Sam was planning to travel overseas next year and the extra money from the sale could help pay for his trip. “And he can’t take a cat with him,” Ms Perceval said.

What a bunch of fucking assholes. Pets aren't a fucking commodity.

 

[Keasar]

“We’re thinking we’ll put $20,000 in a pile next to the cat and say to Sam: you choose.”

Sam, I hope you are a NeoGAF poster, cause if you read this, I wont hold it against you if you decide to slap your parents. That is just such a dick move on a epic scale.

 

[Dougald]

At least let the kid keep the entire $140,000

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

I'm more disgusted with the buyers, what an inhuman request.

 

[NateDog]

Pretty hilarious how glaringly obvious the divide is here between people who understand and have had pets and those who don't and have not.

 

[SmokyDave]

I'd sell my kid for 140k, never mind my cat.

 

[Skele7on]

this will become a film soon

"Sam's choice"

A pet or $20,000

 

[Buzzman]

I love my pets deeply, and I would probably sell them if I were offered $140K. Someone paying that much means I know they'll take care of them.
It would allow me to find a place for myself, I could afford a car+driver's license and a lot of other stuff.
If I was already getting 2 million beforehand though? No fucking way.

 

[aussiedude08]

My girlfriend and I have a ragdoll but we wouldnt sell her even for the $140K. Although my apartment isnt worth as much as the house but its in a better part of Melbourne.

 

[Soriku]

I'd sell my kid for 140k, never mind my cat.

Would you sell your Vita though?

 

[pelicansurf]

Id probably sell my dog for 20k, let alone 140k.

 

[sadceph2001]

Good to see Dr. Cox is doing good.

jajajajaja

 

[mrkgoo]

Oh god :lol

the fact he tries to cover it up at the end is the icing.

 

[SmokyDave]

Would you sell your Vita though?

What kind of fucking monster do you take me for?!

 

[Petrie]

If you mow lawns or babysit at 15, you're lucky if your parents deign to leave whatever money you've worked for alone?
Is their some actual law on the books saying teenagers can't have money or their own possessions?

Your parents absolutely could put you to work mowing lawns or babysitting and take possession of any money earned. Legally.

What a bunch of fucking assholes. Pets aren't a fucking commodity.

Pets are treated as property. How is it shocking that many see them the way we treat them?

 

[LAUGHTREY]

I'd probably keep my cat just to prove to some frivolous asshole that money can't buy everything.

 

[Loomba]

Bye bye cat, nice knowing ye.

The son is getting shafted though. Big time.

 

[StayDead]

You don't pass up 130K for a freaking cat.

There's a billion cats, take a new one.

Cats are family members, would you sell your family member for money? I know I sure as hell wouldn't.

 

[Faiz]

Unless I was absolutely destitute there's no way I'd sell my cat. I can't even imagine.

 

[jett]

Those are some entitled motherfuckers. And the mother is just the worst.

 

[Desi]

I like how no one took notice that I would sell my cat of 15 years. It is almost like no one wants to give me money.

 

[lazorexplosion]

Man, what's with the casual racism? I'd be ashamed to go into a thread and write "typical [race] people" bullshit.

 

[Kinyou]

“We’re thinking we’ll put $20,000 in a pile next to the cat and say to Sam: you choose.” She said Sam was planning to travel overseas next year and the extra money from the sale could help pay for his trip. “And he can’t take a cat with him,” Ms Perceval said.

The fuck?

 

[Keasar]

I like how no one took notice that I would sell my cat of 15 years. It is almost like no one wants to give me money.

I think its more the fact that the parents took the decision to sell their sons cat, not the son.

Also bribing him 20K out of a total of 140K to sell -his- cat.

Also its fucking 140K for a fucking cat, that kind of spending is what makes me hate rich people. They could get one for 100(?) dollars to shut the kid up if he/she wants a cat so bad.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Just know that your cat would sell you in a heartbeat.

 

[R1CHO]

Cats are family members, would you sell your family member for money? I know I sure as hell wouldn't.

Yes. Some of them I would even give away for free.

Others not.

My cat? In need yes.

 

[Link]

I get the attachment to a pet. But no pet took care of me and did everything for me and made me. It's black and white between a pet and the welfare of my parents.

Yeah, it sounds like these people are really struggling. Won't someone think of the upper class?!

 

[John Kowalski]

Don't sell the fucking cat, holy shit. Just lend your kid some money. Fucking hell.

 

[Petrie]

Cats are family members, would you sell your family member for money? I know I sure as hell wouldn't.

Cats are property. Would you sell your couch for money? I sure as hell would.

 

[rashbeep]

Paying 140k for someone else's cat that your kid happened to like is such an odd thing to do..

 

[lazorexplosion]

Yeah, it sounds like these people are really struggling. Won't someone think of the upper class?!

I don't care if my parents are struggling or not, I fucking love them and owe them a tremendous debt. So yeah, I'd be happy to boost their welfare by giving up a cat.

You're seriously saying prioritize class warfare bullshit over your own parents? Man, socialists sound a lot like spoiled ungrateful children.

 

[Stet]

I don't care if my parents are struggling or not, I fucking love them and owe them a tremendous debt. So yeah, I'd be happy to boost their welfare by giving up a cat.

You're seriously saying prioritize class warfare bullshit over your own parents? Man, socialists sound a lot like spoiled ungrateful children.

There's only one spoiled ungrateful child in this story and it's remarkable that you haven't found them yet.

 

[Barzul]

For 140k? Yeah you can have the cat.

 

[Link]

I don't care if my parents are struggling or not, I fucking love them and owe them a tremendous debt. So yeah, I'd be happy to boost their welfare by giving up a cat.

You're seriously saying prioritize class warfare bullshit over your own parents? Man, socialists sound a lot like spoiled ungrateful children.

Ok.

 

[Khaos_Knight]

I've had my cat for 15 years and I would never sell her. I just couldn't, she's like a part of me now.

 

[lazorexplosion]

My parents made sacrifices for me continually and unhesitatingly for decades. I don't care what fucking class they are; I'd be happy to return the favor.

 

[JABEE]

There's a Groucho joke to be made here somewhere.

 

[beato_angelico]

"socialists"

 

[C.Dark.DN]

This is some cartoon trope shit.