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