A 17 year old boy asks his father to look at his Xbox 360 on a Friday night, I'm assuming that his 360 met the infamous Red Ring of Death. The father disagreed and then an argument began resulting the son in handing a rifle to the father and asking him to shoot him. The father surprisingly agreed upon this request and shot his own son. The rilfe was a .22 caliber, the bullet entered his skull and ended up behind his ear.
The son is now being treated at the hospital Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. While the father was sent to Monroe County Prison with a $250.000 bail and charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, and endangering the welfare of a child.
The ex-wife believes this is an accident and will not know the truth until her son is capable of speaking again as the son is currently being heavily sedated.
The 17-year-old boy reportedly wanted his father, James Stanley Niedosik, 60, to look at his Xbox 360 Friday night.
However, when the father didnt want to, an argument ensued. During the dispute, the boy handed his father a rifle and told him to shoot him, and he did.
Most recently commented on by on Jan 8, 2008




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What can the father do about a game console? Unless he works or has worked in that department, the teenager's better off calling Microsoft.
this dude has the coolest story to tell everyone he meets from now on. he can 1-up anything. "hm, what? oh you got hit my a car? Well i was SHOT IN THE FCUKING HEAD."
you live through that, and you should be allowed to do anythign you want from then on. this kid's a *bleep*ing super hero.
~FFXFREAK
That's sad. I think something's wrong with both the son and the father, but especially the father.
A side note, why does some coments have negative thumbs, and some have positive thumbs, even if they say the same things?
*typical father-son argument about stupid crap*
Son - "Oh yeah? If you hate me so much, why don't you just shoot me?"
Father - "OK then"
Father took things too literally >_> Well, it could have been an accident....Like, the rifle could have fired by accident...Like the article said, we won't know until after the son wakes up...
... wonder if the father is feeling any remorse?
Icannot beieve how stupid some people can be.
1) Why would you argue over something this ?
2) Why would you want your father to shoot you ?
3) Why would you shoot your own son ?
If Jack Thompson appears and somehow connects this to video game violence, I will have lost my faith in humanity as the world' most intelligent species.
Son:'You fool you can't fix anything you havent even fixed my rifle yet'
Dad:'Oh yes i did...you have to press this trigger...like this'
Bam
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