EBay Listing, especially for those of you "blessed" with children...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Selling-8-Beybla...item4156900d21

Gotta read this heh....

oh that's some funny sh!t right there.

very funny, but a bit harsh!

The auction money will also go for child psychologists!

Ouch. ...though, I have to wonder how long it took them playing with them in the tub for them to cause that much damage... :whistler:

awwww it was removed or ended. :( I missed it.

Yeah it's been removed. But thanks to the wonders of the internet, I bring you....

Apparently the auction got the crap trolled out of it lol - it was well into 5 figures (yup, $10k plus) thanks to a mass of bids from brand new 0 feedback members....

I can just imagine the people who put the auction up in the first place thinking they were going to make a small fortune off of this....

The kids, however, didn't seem to be too happy....

It was in the six figures when I looked right before it was taken down. Probably one of the kids! lol

I had to google 'beyblades'...I'm still not sure wth they are.:facepalm:

How did they destroy a bathtub with the plastic toys in that bag?

metal ones, enamel bath

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Originally Posted by dr.walrus

metal ones, enamel bath

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Ah, I misread 'metal' as 'little'. But it says it took chunks out and took the soap holder off...wtf!? What do these toys do? Or are they hammering on the tub as with a large rock? These things almost sound fun.:D

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Originally Posted by mDust

Ah, I misread 'metal' as 'little'. But it says it took chunks out and took the soap holder off...wtf!? What do these toys do? Or are they hammering on the tub as with a large rock? These things almost sound fun.:D

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They're basically tops with metal protrusions that smack into each other. The last one spinning wins. Enamel tubs are pretty durable but if you hit them with something metal they chip really easy. So I can see those thing doing some major damage to an enamel tub. My son never got into those things fortunately because I can picture them wrecking, well basically every frickin thing in the house. :mad: I figure the bonehead who decided they would make great toys never had kids.

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Originally Posted by msmrx57

They're basically tops with metal protrusions that smack into each other. The last one spinning wins. Enamel tubs are pretty durable but if you hit them with something metal they chip really easy. So I can see those thing doing some major damage to an enamel tub. My son never got into those things fortunately because I can picture them wrecking, well basically every frickin thing in the house. :mad: I figure the bonehead who decided they would make great toys never had kids.

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Thanks for the explanation!:)

My little brother had them, but we played in an arena that was sold. It was kinda neat because there were magnet holders on the underside of the arena that would sorta mess with the tops. Customizing the tops was kinda fun too.

Looking at the picture, one kid was obviously upset. The one holding the bag...man, he looked ready to kill some people...kinda creepy.

Hehehe, I just had a thought. Try this one on:

1) Dad sees spinning metal toys in store..has brilliant idea.
2) Dad buys toys, takes them home, takes them out of original packaging, and puts them in big zip-lock bag.
3) Dad has kids pose with bag, pretending they're upset.
4) Dad writes very angry-sounding ebay posting about how much damage the toys did.
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6) PROFIT!
:P

That would be a pretty clever dad and some pretty talented kids. It's possible; I've seen child con artists before.

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Originally Posted by Luthien

That would be a pretty clever dad and some pretty talented kids. It's possible; I've seen child con artists before.

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You see that kid over there? Con artist. That one? Definitely con artist. You think little tommy over there is actually crying? Look again, what do you see? That's right. Ice cream truck coming right around the corner. And we all know Tommy loves ice cream. What kid doesn't?

The bathtub would be a perfect arena for beyblades. I would have tried it.

Unless the parents explicitly told the kids not to do it in the tub I don't see how they would have known it was going to be wrong/bad. The shape of a tub would look like a perfect place to have a contained battle for fighting tops.

But the playing after things started to break might frustrate me a little. But I would have thought they were genius for recognizing the shape of the tub as the perfect battleground.

Good point. The tub would be a highly tempting battle arena. Even if the parents thought of saying "Not in the tub" it would be hard to resist. In fact, some kids would be more determined to do something if they've been told not to do it.

It depends on the damage to the tub itself. There's definitely a point where any normal kid should stop and realize how much damage they are causing, even when lost in the moment. But I mean.. you're watching the entire time. The very second something chips or breaks it definitely registers in your head.

When I was a younger lad, I shot a paintball gun into my closet. It made a cool sound and made a perfect hole. It was... pretty awesome, honestly. So I did it again. And again. Then I did it really rapidly a whole bunch of times. ...yeah...

I also took a pool stick and made holes in the ceiling. My parents must have hated raising me. lmao

Edit: I also lit the kitchen floor on fire with massive amounts of hairspray. And I blew the door halfway off the microwave because I wanted a hard boiled egg. XD

This thread is one shining example of why my choice NOT to have kids was the correct one.

LOL!

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Originally Posted by Lothair

I also lit the kitchen floor on fire with massive amounts of hairspray. And I blew the door halfway off the microwave because I wanted a hard boiled egg. XD

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I never set anything on fire as a child...well, not inside the house.

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Originally Posted by Luthien

I never set anything on fire as a child...well, not inside the house.

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Yeah, my friends showed me that trick where you can light hairspray on fire while holding it in your hand. I... decided to step it up a bit. I mean if a little bit is cool, then a lot has got to be a sensory overload of awesomeness, right?

So I dumped an entire bottle out on the floor. And lit it.

WOOOOSHHH!

That sucker was freaking scary! It ruined the floor, too. I was just like... uh... idk how that happened. lmao

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Originally Posted by Luthien

I never set anything on fire as a child...well, not inside the house.

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Let's just say I was on a first name basis with the local fire chief at age 7...

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Originally Posted by Luthien

I never set anything on fire as a child...well, not inside the house.

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haha I set sooo much stuff on fire in the house. It didn't help that we had a coal fire - was just another fire toy to play with...

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Originally Posted by Airbozo

Let's just say I was on a first name basis with the local fire chief at age 7...

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I lived in a group of 3 story apt. buildings (10 between the 2 complexes). It was my mission as a kid to see flames dance above those buildings. Only took me 2 try's. I also found out that merry go rounds would melt.

EDIT: I knew as a kid that fires in the house were bad, so I never played with fire indoors. I left that for my sister and tried to clean up after her mess until she blamed it on me, and being the firebug I was _outside_, my mom believed her. I never helped her clean up again.

They say that your kids pay you back 10 fold for the crap you did to your parents. I avoided that whole scene on purpose.

I always just played with fire outside...of course, by the time I was playing with fire, my back yard was 20 acres of (mostly) woods. Plenty of space to blow stuff up/set stuff on fire/etc safely and away from anything that would break. :D

funny, the first thing i thought out when i first heard about those toys when they came out was sharping the metal sides and letting it loose on various things in the house :)

as for my childhood i was no fun to the say the least. when i was 3 years old i took down doors, well the middle and bottom hinge. broke, cut, smashed various things. took a hammer to a tube tv, surprisingly it only put a chip in the glass, but never broke. played with fire NUMEROUS times.

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Let's just say I was on a first name basis with the local fire chief at age 7...

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The fire chief knew me at that age...still does. My father isn't the chief, but he is an officer in the local volunteer fire & rescue.

Hazmat knew me. Still does.

I was too busy building insane contraptions to set stuff on fire. Tried to fly a plane I built once. That didn't end well.