After having had enough of her son spending hours on video games, one Japanese mom decided to a use unique form of “parental control” on him.
While most current video consoles are already equipped with parental lock controls, tech-savvy kids have been able to do a workaround and still use them.
However, Twitter user @sasamipicata had the shock of his life when he found that his mom had resorted to using the one lock he couldn’t bypass: an actual padlock.
To prevent him from plugging the console to a socket, sasamipicata’s mom had actually locked the prongs of his console’s AC adaptor using the lock’s loop.
全国のゲームを長時間する子供を持つ親に言いたい
これはやりすぎな…(子供目線) pic.twitter.com/HvhZJOluWL— いおり (@sasamipicata) February 13, 2018
According to Soranews24, the poor boy could only express his frustration via a tweet with a photo of the lock.
“Speaking as a kid, I’d like to say to parents in Japan with kids who play games for a long time that this is going too far.”
As sasamipicata is also fond of mobile games, his mom also made sure his access to his iPhone was also cut off.
( ‘ω’)ﾌｧｯ!?
完全に油断してた！！！ pic.twitter.com/NIjapAwuK7— いおり (@sasamipicata) February 13, 2018
His tweets have since been retweeted thousands of times, earning some sympathy from other Twitter users.
“Having the cord right there, but not being able to do anything with it…that’s like emotional abuse,” one Twitter user said.
