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Webkinz user FairyFriends6 was arrested this week at her home next to the W-Shop, after being found guilty of felony child neglect and first-degree murder of her digital pet rabbit, Snowball.
“We did all we could for Snowball the rabbit, but by the time they rushed him into the clinic it was too late,” said resident physician Dr. Quack, adjusting his spectacles solemnly. “Unfortunately, we see it all too often. Two months ago, a Whimsy dragon named “Whimsy” was called in because she was violently malnourished and had not slept for 189 days. We barely saved her. Young people, instead of taking up the responsibility of caring for a beautiful pet, just have their fun for a short while and then leave their charges in a single gray room that has no windows, no doors and no furniture except a weird chair they received gambling at the Wheel of Wow. I think all of us affected here in Kinzville agree that this kind of treatment of young Webkinz is not acceptable, and results all too often in tragic neglect cases like this one. Unfortunately, the closest thing that Kinzville has to Child Protective Services is the Adoption Agency, and they have a secret agenda to actually get MORE unfit people to adopt pets. I hear Ms. Birdy accepts bribes.”
“Snowball the white rabbit was a well-known and beloved champion at Cash Cow, Smoothie Moves, Pizza Palace, and of course Go Go Googles,” said longtime resident Artie, who also runs the local Curio Shop/gem mining operation. “Whenever he came into the Curio Shop, he was always so excited to choose a mine, and always put on a smile leaving, even if he only got slag that day. What nobody could have known was that his caretaker—if you can even call her that—was systematically starving him, and playing repeated rounds of Pizza Palace, never allowing him to sleep. The police said that he didn’t even have a bed. Manipulated into silence, apparently. This is a tragedy that can and should have been avoided."
“The worst bit is, FairyFriends6 had, like, 600,000 Kinzcash. But instead of buying food for her Webkinz, she just bought, like, 200 pool tables,” continued Artie, tenderly comforting other residents of the town as they wept for their lost brethren. "And THEN—this girl just left Webkinz World and was never seen again. It’s been 12 years, and then she shows up again expecting to just be able to go right back to the Wheel of Wow? Sheesh. What a monster. I hope that FairyFriends6 is condemned under the full extent of the law.”
At press time, your Club Penguin puffle had a thriving career as a nonfiction author, no thanks to your inattentive parenting.
