OP never mentioned race. Seriously... You prejudged the OP, thinking they were making statements about race. You are part of the problem.

OP never mentioned race. Seriously... You prejudged the OP, thinking they were making statements about race. You are part of the problem.

“People like you make me sick. You are everything that is wrong with the world. Stop the hate.”

Yup. And it doesn’t even have to mean there are household issues, although it does raise the question.

Right? The very people who think they have the moral high ground here are actually the ones being the bigots and looking past the facts of the situation and making it about race immediately.

He’s making that assumption because the kid spends a lot of his time lurking at Best Buy rather than at home. Kids who don’t have a great home life tend to avoid spending time at home if they can avoid it. And that’s true regardless of your skin colour. Race has literally nothing to do with it. People like you make me…

Makes an ass out of you and the umption?

Agree, chronic you’ve done nothing wrong and good on you for standing your ground, shame people attack those who help rather than assess and think, I’ve done plenty of volunteer work and work in childcare as well so I see it regularly where children try to escape just a shame that people assume it’sonly x person x…

Wow... I feel so sorry for you. This is a literal example of this article. You volunteered to help children who live in troubled situations and then you get attacked for it. People start playing the race card when not once did you mention there is racism. You spoke of your empathy for people in situations that could…

Oh no you didn’t! You racist little twat!

The OP mentioned he/she worked with with kids who are in troubled situation. Not once did he mention color. Don’t try to make this about race, because in the real world. This happens to children of all color, nationality, and religion.

You better wake up and take a deep breath.…

You are a complete and utter moron.

I don’t think it’s necessarily about his race. The kid was going to a retail store (presumably alone) every day to play a game console. While it seems to have been simply about an inability to afford a Wii U it’s also a very common occurrence for teens to avoid going home when they have a troubled home life. If that…

I work part-time at GameStop. We have kids come in all the time to play the demo consoles. The only time we ask them to leave is when they get too rambunctious, or forget they’re in a retail environment where other people are working and shopping and not in their own living rooms. The demo units are there to be…

It’s because of exactly this situation. This is noteworthy because is like the single instance where the man didn’t just shut shit down.

Tried? Best Buy actually banned me!

That’s exactly my point when people try to say they did this just so he would leave. Loitering is illegal they could have easily been dickheads and had him forcibly removed.

When I was about his age I’d go to Toys R’Us after school to play Goldeneye on their display N64.

*ahem*
Cool, but here’s the reason that kid life is worthless, the fact that his most enjoyable thing in the world has been tossed behind by nintendo, that no matter what from this point on he is going to be missing on on newer more amazing stuff that has never been seen before and that kid is missing out.

....why do…

Why are you being so pessimistic? One mans trash is another mans treasure. Don’t be a Grinch.

Doesn’t matter he wants to play that game, he was there everyday to play the same thing everyday.