The Mum hears him call out in frustration, "The Playstation's not working properly". She drifts back to sleep. A while later, he comes into her bedroom and asks if the Playstation is in the room... the answer is No. He goes into the older brother's bedroom and asks if the PS is in there and is told No. He then returns to his Mum's room and starts frantically telling her about a man who walked past a short time ago, with a large bag on his back. Th 9 yearold was, at the time, playing in front of the neighbour's house with their children, and he was pushing a pram with their toddler in it. The man stopped and asked him where his mother was, and he said Home asleep... he asked where did he llive, and he pointed to the house... then the man told him to not push the pram so close to the road as it was dangerous. The 9 yearold's theory is that the man came into the house through the unlocked door and put the Playstation his his bag.
At this, the mother and older brother get out of bed, and the mother does a quick search of the house. There is no sign of the PS so she calls the Police. They take down a description of the man, and later, a policeman arrives to talk to the boy.
This boy is always giving away his possessions - toys etc., plus food, to the neighbours, and people several houses away. It is no wonder he has no toys left! The Mum questions the neighbours, who admit he was playing there this morning, but have not seen the PS. There would be no point in questioning people further away because they would not admit if they had it. The Mum thinks the man passing had nothing to do with it... for one thing, who is to say no-one else is awake in the house apart from the Mum - there could be several people in the loungeroom with the PS... the car was in the drive-way... why JUST the Playstation?
The Mum suspects he gave it to the aboriginals several houses down. But is puzzled that she heard him say how the PS wasn't working properly, and later on, if he did give it away, why would he come into her room to ask if it was there, and then into his brother's. He wouldn't be that clever in thinking like that. The policeman questions both the neighbour's and the aboriginals. He comes back and tells them they both denied it. The police have constant dealings with the aboriginals and the police say the mother there is usually co-operative. Today, she told him that the boy is often there, giving belongings to them. The police takes the Mum outside, and says that going on his past history, it would have been him who gave the PS away, and the man walking past would definitely not have been involved - he would have just been concerned for the toddler's safety being close to the road.
For the rest of the day, the Mum casually talks about the PS, hoping to hear more clues. The boy tries to hide a smile when answering, most of the time. An occasion he didn't smile, but burst out crying, is immediately after the Policeman left. The mother isn't sure why that particular incident caused such tears.
Because it's still strange for him to ask if it was in any bedrooms, the Mum is very confused... all day. The 16 yearold loved the PS as that is the only way he could play music, and he did that every single day, and as loud as he could. If the younger one gave it away, it would be normal behaviour for the older boy to be extremely, extremely angry with him and never let him forget what a bad thing he did. But there was no response, questions, or accusation from him at all. When he eventually got out of bed, he immediately said to the Mum, "The PS wasn't that good anyway... I know someone who has an X-box for $200 if you want to pay half and I'll pay half, and you can play music on that too". The Mum says she's not paying any money towards other people's mistakes again (because the younger boy had destroyed a Playstation when he was young by pouring a drink into it... and a t.v. by leaving a drink next to it which spilt and made the t.v. explode when it seeped under it... and a video-player - somehow... and another t.v. by pulling on the PS cords so hard that the t.v. fell forward off it's stand and smashed etc. etc. etc.)
Because of the older one's immediate comments about an X-box, the Mum becomes suspicious of him maybe being the culprit. After a day of questioning the younger one and feeling bad that maybe she was wrong, she stands at the older boy's bedroom door when he is sitting on his bed and says nothing. When he asks what does she want, she says she feels bad questioning his brother all day, and doesn't really know what happened to the PS, and is so confused and bewildered. He looks at her, laughs and said, "You think I took it don't you... I don't care what you think... you think I did it didn't you, hahaha".
End of subject... no more interrogating the younger boy again. But the Mum STILL DOESN'T KNOW the truth!!!! Please think hard and mark below whichever is your choice of the possible cause.... Thankyou.