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Nine-year-old saves up for PS4, uses money to buy smoke detectors for vulnerable people instead

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After spending a year raising money to buy the gaming system he was craving for, Hector Montoya spent the dough on much-needed smoke detectors for his Grand Prairie community.

Hector got the brainstorm when he heard about a mother and a child who tragically had died in a fire.

Hector teamed with the Grand Prairie Fire Department on Saturday to install 100 new smoke detectors to those who needed them."I was going to buy a PlayStation but I decided saving a life was more important 'cause one life lost is too many,” Hector told NBC in Dallas-Fort Worth.

 

He was going to start from scratch again to raise money for the PS4, but after NBC told his story, Ashton Harder and sister Peyton of Allen, Tex. decided to foot the bill. A PlayStation 4 costs $400 at Gamestop and Best Buy.

 

Do you remember saving for something at 9 years old? I do and I know i didn't care about what was going on around me while i was saving, props to him. Glad he helped his community and still got what he wanted in the end :) can't imagine what this kids going to be like in 15 years

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-money-raised-ps4-buy-smoke-detectors-article-1.1763469

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Wow I hope this kid becomes something when he grows up. We need more people like him in this world.

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Cool but, since when do smoke detectors cost $4?

Teaming up. Meaing that he spend his 400$ and the Grand Prairie Fire Department paid the rest most likeley. 

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Btw this isn't exacty tech news. 

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Well done to the boy, but their community should give them out free.

In the UK you can ask the Fire department to come check out your house and point out risks, and they will also put up Smoke Detectors for FREE.

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Well done to the boy, but their community should give them out free.

In the UK you can ask the Fire department to come check out your house and point out risks, and they will also put up Smoke Detectors for FREE.

not here, that would take intelligence :P and i dont think you can call the fire department to point out risks either, that would take effort

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I like this kid. He deserves some kind of award for common decency or whatever.

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I think some tech youtubers should put together a gaming rig for him: We need such wonderful young people in the PC Master Race

 

As long as he gets a Fermi. Or two.

 

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i did something similar to what this kid did

 

jk i didnt . 

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Wow. Faith in the human race is restored. There will always be good people out there, they just don't get recognised for what they've done.

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I don't like that kid because he almost got a PS4.JK.I'm actually a fan of the PS4 so calm your mammary glands

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I did something sorta similar once:

 

I took the batteries out of a smokedetector in someone else's house so I could power up one of my toys.

 

It's pretty much the exact opposite, but it's still similar.

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How do you save up so much money when you're 9?  My parents certainly didn't give me any.

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when i was 8 i was saving almost 1 month for this shit. it costed (23 lari) = ~15 $ in my country. when i wanted new game or joypad broke  that was another 15-20 day money saving time. this kid lives in heavens :D 

 

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400$ is a lot for a nine year old to have, even if I had saved all of my money my whole life until nine I would not even be close, although PS4 mostly has T-M rated games right now anyways right?

 

 

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How do you save up so much money when you're 9?  My parents certainly didn't give me any.

 

He didn't. It's 100% manipulation by the parent. On the surface kid thinks he's done something good, but the true lesson learned is "Money is power and influence." Kid was brainwashed by the promise of a reward, and when that reward was used to influence the right people - the state and media - someone else buys it for him. Give the kid an Oscar, because he's 9 years a slave.

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He didn't. It's 100% manipulation by the parent. On the surface kid thinks he's done something good, but the true lesson learned is "Money is power and influence." Kid was brainwashed by the promise of a reward, and when that reward was used to influence the right people - the state and media - someone else buys it for him. Give the kid an Oscar, because he's 9 years a slave.

 

That's so fucking jaded it's something that someone with my nickname would say....good job

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When I was around his age, i didn't get any allowance or couldn't save up any money. Like where does he money? Chores?

But props to this kid, helped so many people including the elderly.

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When I was around his age, i didn't get any allowance or couldn't save up any money. Like where does he money? Chores?

But props to this kid, helped so many people including the elderly.

 

Well I could said the same, I basically only got any presents or new toys twice a year: On my birthday and on x-mas. My allowance only started on like 8th grade and it was just a bit more than enough for bus fare. I didn't mention this however because I can understand that not every child grows up like me in adverse economical situations and brought up on a very different time period with very different values. 

But apparently this has to be clarified since it's been mentioned several times already: there is such a thing as an upper middle class or even well off house hold in which allowances would be sufficient for this kid to save up and such.

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