A nine-year-old...his cell phone

I'm more outraged that a 9 year old has his own cellphone

Britney Spear's Speculum: A nine-year-old...his cell phone

I'm more outraged that a 9 year old has his own cellphone

I believe we're finished here.

/turns off lights on the way out.

Should've said he was selling his love seat.

strangeguitar: Should've said he was selling his love seat.

Heh. Seriously.

Britney Spear's Speculum: I'm more outraged that a 9 year old has his own cellphone

It's common anymore - all the parents insisting they have to be able to contact their kids at all times. Apparently calling the principal's office and having their kids paged is no longer sufficient.

I have an iPod Touch and an LG flipphone.. I don't think the latter is advanced enough to receive pictures like that..

(I sure can't find a way to take pictures with it, then send them to some other device..)

Welp. Came to bash his name and his cell phone, left satisfied.

Good night everybody!

Your 9 year olds phone should be just that...a phone. No data/pictures/texting.

Alphax: I have an iPod Touch and an LG flipphone.. I don't think the latter is advanced enough to receive pictures like that..

(I sure can't find a way to take pictures with it, then send them to some other device..)

You can do it, if your tech savvy and don't care about warranties.

They officially want you to use bluetooth devices and microSD cards to upload and download content if you're not going to use their pay service. So I've just used the microSD cards. I don't own bluetooth crap, and will not buy it, because I don't need it.

It used to be that you just plugged in the USB/charger cord into your computer, downloaded the newest LG driver, and you could upload and download photos, music, whatever onto or from your phone to your laptop. Funny enough, Verizon NEVER officially told anyone they could do that, that I saw. It was all about 'use our pay services to get your photos and music!'

Then about a year and a half ago, two years ago, LG and verizon made it impossible to download the driver for one's own phone from the LG site. How farked up is that? What the hell kind of company and phone service would make it impossible to download a driver? Verizon claimed they had the VZAccess Manager to allow you to upload all the drivers you'd need for any of your phones. VZAccess Manager is total crap if you don't have their broadband plan and don't want it. I've never gotten it to work to do what I downloaded it for (my phone, before it was stolen, STILL didn't have any updated drivers), and I assume you haven't gotten it to work either.

All the usual, safe online sites claiming to have updated drivers for LG phones have dead links. I don't do warez, or jailbreaking, or any of that other stuff. I'm that class of user who just wants a phone which works and doesn't have the inclination to learn all that techno-hacking crap, and doesn't want/need broadband.

fark Verizon.

My niece is 7, and has a cell phone. She can't tie her shoe laces. But she has a cell phone.

I facepalmed at christmas when she opened it.

criscodisco: Attached to the kitchen wall, with a 30-foot curly cord, for "privacy".

Damn it, no children should ever have things that I didn't have as a child.

/not gonna bring up cable television.

"I am like let me see that text and I am like wow."

I'm not sure who I should feel more sorry for, the person who said this, or the reporter who didn't bother to paraphrase the comment into something slightly more coherent.

criscodisco: crab66: Your 9 year olds phone should be just that...a phone. No data/pictures/texting.

Attached to the kitchen wall, with a 30-foot curly cord, for "privacy".

Damn it, no children should ever have things that I didn't have as a child.

/not gonna bring up cable television.


When it comes to protecting your child, then yes your child doesn't really need a cell phone except the most basic model with GPS so you can keep track of where your child (or at least, where your child's phone) is. There's a difference between giving your child the necessities of life, which you could not afford in your own youth; and giving your child the material luxuries of life, which are just 'keeping up with the jones' bullshiat.

And no, no one actually 'needs' cable, either. (Though it can get depressing to see someone treat cable as a utility! when it comes to asking for cash help... social services persons and church charity persons know what I'm talking about.)

And back to the guy who sent the text, shiat happens. He came up with a clever response after apologizing, instead of blowing them off, which is commendable. As soon as the text happened, they should have contacted their provider for information on parental controls for a child's phone. They ARE out there. It's the shiatty parent who doesn't at least try to employ them. If the phone services' parental controls are shiatty, time to look into a new service provider.

/we've heard from mama, and grandmama -- where's daddy?

But he is not advanced enough to see the text messages being sent to his cell phone.

It was a text message AND a picture? Was it an ASCII blowjob?

FirstNationalBastard:
It was supposed to be Ty'Ge'Rrr.

/and that's a wonderful thing.

What you did there, I see it. Not cool, but on the other hand they asked for it with this crap,

No Catchy Nickname: Was it an ASCII blowjob?

Those cost double.

Don't they have phones designed just for kids that restrict what numbers can call or be called?

She claimed it was so the kids could check in before and after school. Okay, so the kids need to be able to call 1 or 2 numbers and 911. Disable texts and calls from anywhere except from those 2 numbers.

Isn't there such a thing?

Was it a picture of his mom?

Happy Hours: Don't they have phones designed just for kids that restrict what numbers can call or be called?

She claimed it was so the kids could check in before and after school. Okay, so the kids need to be able to call 1 or 2 numbers and 911. Disable texts and calls from anywhere except from those 2 numbers.

Isn't there such a thing?

The reporter didn't ask, apparently, and didn't think to call the cell phone provider to get that information. Unbelieveable. I mean, hell, the Sheriff's department isn't even quoted in the article. What happened to the 'investigative' part of being a journalist? That article is poorly written and edited anyway. NBC, MSN, and Travell Eiland, what the fark is y'all's problem?

It's almost like the whole thing was made up by Eiland.

Where's the father's point of view?
Oh, right.

Pert: Still, at least "Ty'Ge davis is at the top of his class third grade class."

Department of Redundant Editors Redundancy Department.

/and have they really gone that extra step and made his surname start with a lower-case "d" just to make it extrartarded, or is that just another thing that's wrong with the article?
//do you think that the author, Travell Eiland, ever gets confusing text messages?

here's the video (had to search using wbbhtv, since msnbc only provided a screencap and not the video itself at the msnbc site): http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=13983330 (new window)

The 'article' is like a word for word transcript of the video. Horrible. I don't know who to blame, though, since that's the usual MO for articles originally accompanying newscast videos.

what happened to the couch? you couldn't just take another picture of the couch to use for texting?

ExperianScaresCthulhu: Happy Hours: Don't they have phones designed just for kids that restrict what numbers can call or be called?

She claimed it was so the kids could check in before and after school. Okay, so the kids need to be able to call 1 or 2 numbers and 911. Disable texts and calls from anywhere except from those 2 numbers.

Isn't there such a thing?

The reporter didn't ask, apparently, and didn't think to call the cell phone provider to get that information. Unbelieveable. I mean, hell, the Sheriff's department isn't even quoted in the article. What happened to the 'investigative' part of being a journalist? That article is poorly written and edited anyway. NBC, MSN, and Travell Eiland, what the fark is y'all's problem?

It's almost like the whole thing was made up by Eiland.

Not to mention something doesn't smell right about the entire deal. First off, quoting the boy he parroted an obviously planned statement for the journalist: "I wasn't ready for that" is adult speak.

Second, how did the man get the number? Or was it that the number belonged to someone he had a relationship with and now belongs to this number?

Selling a couch? Hardly.

I think the reason they haven't talked to the police in this one and the reason the police have NOT charged him yet is that some details are being fudged by the grandmother.

"I am like let me see that text and I am like wow," his grandmother Meowsaidthedog said.

What kind of name is that? Like
French African?

A 9-yr-old got sent porn - and decided to show it to his mother?

This is why I call shenanigans.

/been collecting since 6

ExperianScaresCthulhu: criscodisco: crab66: Your 9 year olds phone should be just that...a phone. No data/pictures/texting.

Attached to the kitchen wall, with a 30-foot curly cord, for "privacy".

Damn it, no children should ever have things that I didn't have as a child.

/not gonna bring up cable television.


When it comes to protecting your child, then yes your child doesn't really need a cell phone except the most basic model with GPS so you can keep track of where your child (or at least, where your child's phone) is. There's a difference between giving your child the necessities of life, which you could not afford in your own youth; and giving your child the material luxuries of life, which are just 'keeping up with the jones' bullshiat.

And no, no one actually 'needs' cable, either. (Though it can get depressing to see someone treat cable as a utility! when it comes to asking for cash help... social services persons and church charity persons know what I'm talking about.)

And back to the guy who sent the text, shiat happens. He came up with a clever response after apologizing, instead of blowing them off, which is commendable. As soon as the text happened, they should have contacted their provider for information on parental controls for a child's phone. They ARE out there. It's the shiatty parent who doesn't at least try to employ them. If the phone services' parental controls are shiatty, time to look into a new service provider.

/we've heard from mama, and grandmama -- where's daddy?

If there was a daddy around, the little shiat wouldn't have a cell phone...

steve_lou: "I am like let me see that text and I am like wow," his grandmother Meowsaidthedog said.

I chuckled.

"I am like let me see that text and I am like wow," his grandmother Dorothy Moore said

People who talk like that need a good kick in the box followed by a swift and thorough shoving.

i am in the market for pictures of sofas /women performing oral sex

I know someone who got a wrong number text with image of nakedness, his girlfriend didn't believe him that it was a wrong number. Poor chap.

Also what's wrong with kids having mobile phones? Granted if they're unrestricted tariffs or £500 HTC or iPhones then that's silly because they're not really the most trustworthy beings, but for emergencies it can be useful to have a phone.

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ad over.

I agree with the choice of pictures in selling the couch. Gotta make sure the couch works for you

ExperianScaresCthulhu: Pert: Still, at least "Ty'Ge davis is at the top of his class third grade class."

Department of Redundant Editors Redundancy Department.

/and have they really gone that extra step and made his surname start with a lower-case "d" just to make it extrartarded, or is that just another thing that's wrong with the article?
//do you think that the author, Travell Eiland, ever gets confusing text messages?

here's the video (had to search using wbbhtv, since msnbc only provided a screencap and not the video itself at the msnbc site): http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=13983330 (new window)

The 'article' is like a word for word transcript of the video. Horrible. I don't know who to blame, though, since that's the usual MO for articles originally accompanying newscast videos.

Oh, ($DIETY).

It's bad enough, but this place was my first job in TV.

\aren't enough hands for the proper facepalm
\\seriously, how is TV website formed?

"I was like, 'What is this?' I ran in the house and showed my mom," he said. "That was just too old for me. I wasn't ready for that."

The woman in the pic was too old for him???

/never too young for p0rn
//Pedobear approves

steve_lou: "I am like let me see that text and I am like wow," his grandmother Meowsaidthedog said.

Laughter OL!

Ty apostrophe jee?

jusbcuz80:
/never too young for p0rn