A boy and his Animatronic brother

A married couple in California were arrested on Tuesday for leaving their 10-year-old son and 5 year-old anamatronic son home alone, police said.

Jacob Calero, 39, and Michelle De La Vega, 32 left their 10-year-old son Joshua home to care for his 5-year-brother/AI being, Jason, who is pure robot, when they celebrated the new year in Las Vegas for five days-- but got a dog-sitter for their puppies -- local police said.

"The fact that they left us alone truly did suck balls, but the worst part was when we tried to go swimming and Jason sunk to the bottom of the pool. What could I do? I tried to pull him up, but he weighs so much that I decided to go play Nintendo instead and Jason spent the night at the bottom of the pool."

"They should have known better than to leave us alone," 10-year-old Joshua Calero was quoted as saying by The Chronicle on Wednesday from his grandmother's house in Manteca. "They knew it was against the law, those bitches."

Police said they believe the couple had left the boys home alone on previous occasions. The police asked the older boy how many times they'd been left alone, and he said "too many times to count, shit officer, the parties we had rollin' up here wer inzane yo, i get these fat bitches all over me cause they know im da shit, but im tired of the crazy life. I just want my parents home now."

"I had big concerns," Libbey Holden said, grandmother to the two kids. "These kids are helpless. Especially the robot one, they usually have him lift heavy objects over and over for entertainment. Sometimes, they'll make him roll over a 1,000 marijuana joints in less than 10 minutes then smoke them all. It's sad I know, but I must admit, when we make him drink the ammonia and bleach milk shake its pretty funny."

Police found the children asleep in their beds Saturday night. A gas fireplace was on with several leaking gas cans, bricks of C4, hundreds of matches, a nuclear reactor going critical and Osama Bin Laden in a cage, but they found nothing out of the ordinary.

The children are now in Libbey Holden's custody and the parents are facing life in prison or the death penalty.