Bad dog, no Xbox: Remote-chewing pup buys 5,000 Xbox points while owners sleep

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A Virginia couple recently awoke and were startled to find that their dog had been up to no good. Well, let us clarify: The no-good dog had managed to rack up more than $60 in charges by chewing on a remote control. Bad dog.

Owner Greg Strope is an avid video-game player whose system of choice is Microsoft’s Xbox. In order to spend more time gaming and less time purchasing Xbox games, Stroke had saved his credit card information on the game system, through which Microsoft Points can be purchased and used for new games at the Xbox Live Marketplace. Bad idea.

The dog managed to chew the remote to the tune of 5,000 Xbox points. (‘I had to wipe it off after I picked it up,’ Strope told Fox News. But, he said, a more shocking element of the story is that the dog managed to turn the Xbox console on in the process of his apparently vigorous remote-chewing session.)

Since Microsoft Points are nonrefundable, Strope and his girlfriend are stuck with the purchase -- and you know where that puts the dog ... in the doghouse. (Ba-dum-bum.)

-- Lindsay Barnett

Video: Fox News