I think this is some bad parenting.
A 12-year-old South Carolina boy got an unexpected stocking stuffer ? a pair of handcuffs ? after he snuck into his Christmas gifts a few weeks early.
After a mother discovered her son had unwrapped a Nintendo Game Boy Advance that was meant for him as a present from his grandmother, she called the Rock Hill Police and had the young man arrested for petty larceny, according to the police report filed this week.
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