Oh, well great — now what am I going to do with my copies of 007 Legends and NeverDead? So, as we reported a while back, folks in Southington, Connecticut were planning on having a good old fashioned video game burning, because sometimes the world’s a scary, terrible place, so LET’S BURN SOMETHING.
The specific plan was to hand out $25 gift certificates to people who traded in any sort of “violent media” and then burn that media, possible while hooting and doing a little jig. Meanwhile all the kids would be at the mall buying new violent media with their gift certificates.
Well, turns out the burning isn’t actually going to happen, because, uhhhh, reasons? Or something? Organizers say they don’t need to have a burning, because all the pre-burning media coverage already got their message out. What was that message? Violent media is bad? Breathing molten plastic fumes is good? People from Southington, Connecticut are dumb? Not sure…
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Man that’s the thing about outraged moms and dads, they are bad at due diligence
People from Southington, Connecticut are dumb, that was the point.
I feel like that’s probably the point to a lot of things in Southington.
They wanted coverage and controversy, they were expecting boycotts and clutched pearls not jokes and people wanting to cash in on their stupidity by bringing in games they couldn’t sell back to GameStop.
Point: It was going to cost them more than expected.
So, I bought all these fake mustaches so I could collect multiple vouchers for nothing?
If you can’t find another use for multiple fake mustaches elsewhere, I’m not sure I respect you as a person anymore.
Outraged, ill informed mother: Won’t someone please think of the children?!?!?!
Guy who actually attended science class: I’m thinking breathing in the toxic fumes from burning videogames would be bad for them
If it’s not in the Bible, it’s not in Southington, SC.
Er- Connecticut. Whatever.
same difference?
Usually bonfires are fun and exciting. Even when they’re not that, they’re kinda chill. Okay, so you weren’t gonna get that from a bonfire for purposes of destruction, but at least you could kinda hope for the entertainment value of moral outrage.
This event didn’t seem like it was headed in any of those directions. I can see it now; they have a perimeter 10′ away from the flames to keep people from accidentally getting burned, there’s a gate and they only allow one person through at a time to chuck something on the pile, they hand out gift cards when you leave, and there’s no real point to stick around. It’s just a grim, stern slog.
This is what political correctness has done to our country! We can’t even have good bonfires, anymore!
I think it might just be off because they ran out of firewood from the time they burned all of the rap CDs
I dont think they had the money.