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A couple of slightly warped American teenagers came up with a fantastic plan to get around a family’s late night internet ban — drug the parents unconscious.
The case covers the parents of a 16-year-old girl in Rocklin, California, who thought they were being perfect mummy and daddy by enforcing a very reasonable ban on internet use after 10.00pm.
This didn’t go down very well with the girl, who, along with a 15-year-old friend, obtained some sleeping pills, ground them up, put them in a couple of milk shakes and fed them to the parents. After an hour or so mummy and daddy fell asleep, leaving the kids free to blankly stare at Twitter and Facebook until the early hours of the morning.
The parents woke up at around 1.00am with “hangover like” symptoms. Having suspected the milk shakes tasted a little odd earlier in the evening, they bought an off-the-shelf drug testing kit, found they were clearly on something, then took the two kids to the police.
Quite clever, really. It’s not that different from letting your wife drink a whole bottle of wine so she falls asleep early, meaning you can have a couple of peaceful hours on the Xbox. There’s just a slightly higher risk of death. [Guardian]
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“enforcing a very reasonable ban on internet use after 10.00pm.”
In what crazy world is that reasonable? Oh, America..
LOL!!! AND LOL more at the wife and wine..
This is why as mummy and daddy you need to set the router to Ban Ips on the home network at set times.. this way even if they drug you there is no access..
Unfortunately, if Mummy and Daddy are anything like the majority of parents I know, then they won’t know anything more about the internet than “That Magical Box under the stairs makes the internets work”
But balls to it… if your child does this, then you have a much more serious issue than an internet problem.
(And yeah, 10PM? Seriously?)
True.. if they drug you its a new page really.. lol..
I agree as well, most `rents dont have a clue how the box works and just pay that nice man from BT to make it happen.. where as what BT should do is issue GOOD and smart instructions with a DVD know-how guide, educating them in a pretty good first line of defence for their children rather than letting them take the view of .. “oh i dont understand technology”
I actually briefly considered this in my days of sneaking out of the house at night. Thankfully I never went through with it
For “Twitter and Facebook”?? What a waste of effort. Could have had three hours of porn instead…