[mikeesik]

Hello.

I can barely believe this and neither can most I've spoken to.

I purchased an X-box for my Son with a steering wheel and additionals for his Birth-Day. That was 1 year ago. He adores it. It makes him happy and gives him something to do when he's with the other-side.

He LOVES to drive and is good at it. I am very entertained to just watch.

His mother then got him a Sony PSB for this years B-day. It was with one game. A shooting game which he liked.

Simon just loves the x-box games which are about racing and driving. He plays the x-box almost always.
His mother has commented that if he doesn't play more with the psb she'll take it back to the store.

He brings the X-box here on weekends sometimes and takes it back to his mothers.

Anyway, his mother lost it a couple of weeks ago and threatened Simon that she will throw it out if he doesn't play with the psb more.

Simon brought over the X-box for this weekend and he hooked it up. He started to have problems with it such as loading up and then while everything seemed o.k the background graphics became phsycedelic . We then shut off and there was no way to reload. We tried and tried. Reboot -reboot.
I asked Simon then to remove the top to get an amateur look at it , in case there was something obvious.

What I found was a stench of perfume concentrated in/on the contacts.

I thought I was going crazy. Perfume stench in the contacts and in the hard drive!!!?

There is NO reason for that unless someone sprayed it down the holes.

This is perfume and it's his mothers.

I figured it shorted and corroded the circuits and now the box is useless.



I KID YOU NOT. THERE IS A STENCH OF PERFUME AND A STAIN WHICH LOOKS FLAT against the plastic.

Like I said there is a stench of perfume coming out of the circuit plug.

His mother knows how to remove it and once did and threw it across the room.

I couldn't make this up if I tried!
How sad -for my Son.