From the People-Can-Be-Horrible Department comes this little gem from California (by way of Engadget)...

Imagine this scene: It's Christmas morning. You come downstairs to a Yuletide wonderland. Lights are twinkling, gifts are piled everywhere, and they're all for you! You start to tear into this bounty of consumer joy, and you unwrap it: your very own PlayStation 3!

Let's be friends forever!

You're ecstatic! You're overjoyed! Also, you're impatient, so you tear the box open right then and there. But after getting through the packaging you discover that, although the outside of the box says, "PlayStation 3", the inside doesn't contain a new next-gen system. Nor does it contain a old last-gen system. No, your Christmas miracle this year is a phone book. The yellow pages.

Not exactly the Christmas miracle you had been hoping for, was it? 

For one kid in Thousand Oaks, California, this scenario became all too real. Turns out that some unscrupulous human being (and I use that term lightly) at some point on the distribution chain swapped out the PS3 for an object of comparable weight (albiet not comparable value!)

Obviously, this isn't the first time someone has been cheated by a low-down Scrooge of a person. But the weird part about this particular story is that the system wasn't bought on eBay, or Craigslist. No, it was picked up at the local EB Games.

So remember kids, Christmas is a time of joy, wonderment, and constant reminders that humanity is screwed up.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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