UNO, Oh No!
My teens are gamers, they play on line games on the pc, they have a Playstation 2, and an Xbox360.
A few days ago, a friend on Xbox live, (Xbox is live play for many games. You can chat with other players, send messages, talk to team mates etc) invited the boys to play the Xbox version of the popular card game UNO.
We didn't have this game, but in the Xbox live marketplace, you can buy it for 400 points.
Points are purchased at the Xbox.com live site using a credit card, and then using your controller, you can shop the marketplace for games, expansion packs for games, and even movies to rent and watch.
The boys had about 800 points left from the last time I purchased points to rent a movie and buy some new maps for Gears of War, so I let them buy the UNO game and download it so they could play with their friends.
They played it most of the afternoon, had an absolute blast with it and their friends.
Some of the other gamers, (not their friends, just other on line players) had web cams, and were using their cams as their player avatars.
It was kinda cool, they could see who they were playing with.
We had all stayed up very late the other night, the teens playing GoW, LOTR BFME, Oblivion, and UNO.
It was very late, approximately 3:30 in the morning. None of us could sleep, so at least I had company during my bout of insomnia instead of sitting here in dead silence like I usually am.
They were playing UNO at this late hour, and 2 of the 4 players in the UNO match, had web cams. Every thing was going fine, laughing, chatting, playing the family fun card game.
Then it happened.
One of the web cam avatars changed from the mid-20's aged man playing, to a girl in his room.
She took off her shirt revealing her bra.
The boys went silent.
I sat silent.
I think I may have uttered something along the lines of; "that bitch better not strip."
Then she took off her pants.
Then she took off her bra.
The teens were giggling uncontrollably at this point. I said there was no way this could be happening live, just no way. The guy has to be watching porn or something, and aimed his web cam at the tv.
There were 4 players, Mark, 1 other guy with a web cam who was sitting with his jaw dropped, and the guy with the nearly naked chick, and another kid about aged 13.
All 4 players were still playing the card game, Mark was doing fairly well, 2 cards away from being able to call UNO. The 13 year old was laughing like a lunatic, and the other guy was still jaw dropped.
Then it happened.
Suddenly the girl started performing fellatio on the mid-20's aged man while he still continued to play his hand.
Sebastian was red faced, Mark was silent and kept looking at me, and I had hopped from the chair to my pc to go to xbox live and find a way to report this.
I mean, kids were playing a family card game, and some chick was giving a guy a blowjob live.
I kept telling Mark to get out of the game, leave, leave now! There's no way to quit mid-hand unless you just shut off the console.
If they shut off the console, I couldn't report the user.
Luckily, the guy finally shut off the web cam and his screen went black.
The 3 other players including Mark, were all "dude, did you see that?!"
"Yes! OMG! I saw that!", followed by all of them dying with laughter.
Sebastian hollered out he just saw his first real life blowjob, and Mark was still laughing, looking at me, going silent, then laughing again nervously.
I was not pleased to say the least.
I reported the user, and told the boys that from now on, UNO cannot be played after 11pm no matter what.
People obviously take advantage of the live features of the games, and do stuff like that.
It was quite an awkward moment for me.
I know they are young men and growing up, and eventually will deal with sexual situations, may even watch some type of pornography with their male friends while at college or when staying at a friends house, I know this stuff will eventually happen.
I just wasn't prepared to see it happen in the safety and comfort of my own living room.
And not with me in the damn room.
I'm still quite shaken by the experience.
I may be an unconventional mom, I allow them freedoms other kids don't have, we have an open door full honesty policy here, but I was not ready to handle live sex just yet.
I think other parents who have an Xbox360 and the game UNO, and children who may have the xbox unit in their bedrooms or stay up late at night, need to know what kinds of things might happen.
Like this.
So parents, if your kid has this and may have the game in their room or you let them stay up late playing, you might want to check on them every now and then.
You never know what other players might do during what is essentially, a very family friendly game.
Comments
Wow. Well written first of all. And I'm a novice at knowing how these non-PC games work. Live webcams? There's no controlling that, even if you report the perpetrator. I guess it comes down to supervision or just pulling the plug.
Posted by: Creechman | August 5, 2007 7:53 AM
That is just sick...KNOWING that kids were watching. Good for you for reporting him; I hope he gets banned from these games. Let him take his web cam to a porn site, where people WANT to see such a thing.
I wonder if he can get busted for corrupting minors or something. This is a sex offense, after all, even if he didn't touch any minors.
Gack.
Posted by: Christine | August 5, 2007 11:27 AM
OMG are you kidding? I would have been all red faced and stymied. Although Chris and Jeff would have been cussing the guy out!
Posted by: Mindy | August 5, 2007 12:34 PM