Man Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing WoW

[viking97]

i suggest death by snorting charlie sheen

only he doesn't have any children to weep over his exploded body...

 

[Bullfrog1983]

A waste of two lives, seems like all of these wonderful stories come from people who play World of Warcraft... funny that.

 

[gritch]

I'm going to bookmark this post. That way anytime I feel the urge to finally buy WoW I can read this and convince myself not to.

 

[putowtin]

How is this WoWs fault? This man is just a bad parent. He could just as easly been watching football or something and this could have turned out the same. Blaming WoW is just an excuse.

this! a million times this!

 

[Inkidu]

Well, you obviously can't blame him! He has a disease, like alcoholism! [/end utter B.S.]

This is so ridiculously sad it shouldn't have happened. Of course, I kind of do blame the pusher, if not as much.

 

[DevilWolf47]

If i were a politician i'd use this case as an example to push for a bill where you must prove that you can be a responsible parent before you're allowed to reproduce, and use MMORPGs as a disqualifying mark.

But i'm not that tasteless.
...okay, i am but i'm not a politician because i utterly despise both major political parties in my country. That having been said, the major problem is the negligence. If it wasn't WoW it would have been he didn't check on the child because he didn't want to stop looking at LOLcats pics. The fact that WoW became a major factor in this instead of "A kid died because his dad was a lazy inattentive ************" is a little depressing. Yeah i know MMOs do have a risk of increasing the ratio of negligent homicide, but the thing is they are video games so i fear i have to draw fire away from them or damage the industry i love.

 

[MordinSolus]

Frankly, I'm tired of hearing news like this...
Makes me want to take a hammer to the heads of such idiot-parents and an EMP to WoW and FB for providing such distractions.
Seriously, agreeing with Super-Skrull, there's too much trash in the universe...

Sorry for such a post...

Apology not necessary

OT: If he couldn't pull himself away from a video game and he's 29, he's obviously not ready to be a parent. If/when I have kids, I'd make sure to at least play a game that you can pause like Call Of Duty or a game where pausing doesn't matter, the game won't do anything (Fire Emblem, anyone?).

 

[Undeadpool]

The only headline this deserves is "Man is terrible father regardless of other interests."

 

[Cid Silverwing]

It's called Stealthing/Hearthstoning in an emergency!

Lifetime or death penalty to this man. I've no sympathy for this level of gross neglect and deceit.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

Lets face it, him playing WoW was irrelevant. This is just an ignorant dick with zero parenting skills.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I don't know what to think. My initial thought is that he is an awful parrent an should rot, but i had no idea that, that could happen. I sleep with pillows over my head all the time it would have never occured to me to see the pillow over the child and be like, "Oh FUCK!" Shows how prepared I am to be a parent.
Parent's do that self-sooth thing all the time and while i can't tell you if it works if he was just looking for a place to pause I can understand.
When did the son start crying vs.en did the father go to check on him is what i would want to know.

I doubt I will ever have children I'm way to selfish with my time. If I do, then they're fucking top priority though, can KIND OF be easy to forget that when you set the kid down to nap. Again I want a spacific time table.

Apparently the child was crying, though, which really makes this inexcusable.

Babies cry ALL THE DAMN TIME!

I mean, he should have gone to see why the baby was crying, but...

I'm with one of the above posters, though. I guess I would make an awful parent 'cause if I saw my kid with a pillow on them, I wouldn't go 'OH FUCK THEY'RE DYING!' I regularly built myself pillow forts and snuggled with pillows and what have you when I was like...2.