Baby buys car while playing with parents cellphone

[missmuffet]

I can't help but think this is funny.

 

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Baby-buys-car-while-playing-on-parents-cellphone-214998151.html

 

CEDAR MILL, Ore. – Kids these days: They can do almost anything on a smartphone.

But a 14-month-old buying a car?

It happened, said Paul Stoute, a Washington County man whose daughter did an unusual – and costly – thing while playing on dad’s phone. 

Somehow while playing with the cellphone, baby Sorella Stoute hopped onto eBay and somehow made the winning bid.

“I downloaded a game, so she could get some color recognition-type stuff. You know, it pops up blue and you tap on the screen on the blue button to make sure you know the colors and stuff like that,” Paul said. “And she must’ve got out of that to eBay.”

Paul got a surprise when an email arrived in his inbox confirming that he was the winning bidder of a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite for $225.

“I actually thought it was a phishing email. You know, the ones where they try to steal your information?,” Paul said. “And I actually looked it up on eBay just to make sure it was legit, and sure enough, the little one must’ve bought a car.”

Paul said he contacted the seller to see if he could get out of the purchase; the seller said yes.

But in the end, the family decided to go through with the bid.

“After thinking about it, Krissy, my wife, and I decided to actually keep the car and restore it as just kind of a good story for the little one here,” he said.

So watch out: In 15 years, Sorella may be zipping around town in the vintage classic.

[The_Patriot21]

Lol nice. 225? I would bought it to lol

[Leonard]

That's hilarious!

[seekar]

wow.. that sounds like a sovereign God working there .. way it all turned out..meant to have that car i guess!!
gives a new perspective on little ones using gadgets.... lol   

Edited July 11, 2013 by seekar

[Guest]

Wow, two topics in one hour where I feel compelled to comment on supervision. Some parent needs to watch more carefully at how thier infant is making mental notes about the parent's username and password, as well as typing in the ebay url in the first place. Of course, it is possible that some lazy parent had all of those things stored in memory, and should be thankful that their cell hone did not fall into the wrong hands.  Next time, the parent might find that teenager bought a Lamborghini for half a million dollars and had it shipped to his house. Maybe the parent needs to look at more age appropriate toys (for his/herself, not for the baby). 

[The_Patriot21]

Who cares they have personality lol.

[Guest]

Who cares they have personality lol.

Yugos have personality

[The_Patriot21]

How about jugos?

[RedMomma]

Its a funny story yet like omie I was thinking it could of gotten very expensive there. I bet the dads thankful ir was only 225 but my thing is what if he would of been broke?

[The_Patriot21]

eh, i think it would make a good first car when she turns 16. Why give your kid something nice to learn how to drive in lol.