When Linda first got her iPhone, she downloaded a free game. Remember Skeeball from Chuck E. Cheese? You roll the little wooden ball down the lane and try to get it into the circles for 10, 20 or even 100 points. When Tier and Taylor were little (and not so little), they all loved playing that game. Taylor had a bazillion tickets at one time and just about furnished his whole room with prizes. Anyway, Linda found her self playing Skeeball throughout the day, a few minutes here and there. Pretty soon, she was playing more than that. She was fixated on getting enough tickets to win a pair of bunny slippers. When she found herself playing at a stoplight one day, she pulled the plug cold turkey. A Chinese couple should have done the same thing. They sold their 3 kids to fund their internet cafe gaming habits. The girl sold for less than $500 dollars since girls are not that coveted in China. Both boys sold for $4,600. The grandparents tuned the couple in when they found out what they had done. After they were arrested, they told police "We don't want to raise them, we just want to sell them for more money." So sad, but not so strange considering how addicted people can get to computer/video games.
