Jodi Wykle knew her son would be thrilled when she gave him a new Nintendo DS for his birthday.
Instead, he was rocked.
According to WTSP-TV, the confused teen opened up his gift only to find bunch of stones and a rolled up Chinese newspaper in place of the popular handheld. All I got was a rock.
Needless to say, mom was equally stunned.
“When he opened it, he was pulling the seal off, my sister-in-law carries a pocket knife and she opened it and that’s when he pulled it out and it was Chinese newspaper and a bunch of rocks,” she explained.
The troubling discovery prompted the Florida woman to contact the local Wal-Mart where she bought the curious box and complain, but reportedly workers there told her it wasn’t their problem and that she should contact Nintendo instead. Of course, Nintendo told her roughly the same thing, leaving mother and son with a $138 box of rocks.
"They don’t want to do nothing. They want me to keep the box of rocks.
I’m not buying a box of rocks for $138," she said.
Amazingly enough, however, Wal-Mart soon caved after learning that the same box of rocks had been previously returned by another disgruntled customer. How exactly it made it back onto store shelves remains a mystery, but for her troubles, Wykle was given a full refund and a $20 gift card.
It’s not the first time Wal-Mart has gotten into hot water for selling a questionable handheld. Earlier this month, a PSP system bought at a different Wal-Mart store in Florida was found to contain a memory stick with pornographic images.
Imagine you opening christmas presents at a family get together and you’re struggling with opening it and your aunt says “here let me get that” and she pulls out a switch-blade? :bloated:
I don’t know my dad always carries a pocket knife and I do sometimes it’s not that strange, I think it would be more weird if she pulled scissors out of her pocket or maybe a cross bow.
The day Walmart told me take a hike for selling me a box o’ rocks would be the day I made the news. I carry “pocket” knives as well…it’s so much easier than opening bubble gum by hand.
My brother used to work at a Wal Mart and would tell stories of people buying computers and returning the boxes with bricks in them for full, cash refunds. They also take the doors off of stoves (the glass parts) and put them into flat panel TV boxes and return those.
People used to take the stickers off the new SATA hard drives (back when they were expensive), and they would stick them on old ass IDE drives, and return the drive to best buy.
When we would go through the best buy returns, at least 1 in 10 was a fraud return.
All I got was a rock.
