Man Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing WoW

[icame]

Yeah blame the game, not the fucking idiot.

If you looked at cracked.com, WoW is just a giant skinner box. It's Blizzards fault for creating a giant mind prison that reminds me of Inceptioan and the father's fault for playing it, valuing the game over child, and becoming a slave to it. It's possible for him to get off if he pleas insanity, I mean it's pretty obvious that everyone knows what WoW really is, a slaver that puts a chain on he player and never let's them go. I can't believe I'm saying this, but let Jack Thompson have a field day with this case and shut down WoW. Who knows, if pulls it off we could herald him as a hero as Blizzard loses their cash cow and players are freed.

I have to go to bed now, so I can't go into a rant about this, but to put it simply a man looked at his son and saw his head was under a pillow and did nothing to go back to playing a game. That is not the games fault. It is his. He decided to potentially let his child suffocate. That makes him a fucking idiot. His level of idiocy is not the games fault.

Second, if they shut wow down because of something so titanically retarded, then I would, again, lose faith in humanity. You decide to play the game. You decide when to stop playing. Just don't be an idiotic like this guy and stop caring about the real world and everything is just peachy.

So, In conclusion, people, takes responsibilities for yourselves and stop being idiots.

 

[Eri]

I don't understand how you suffocate on a pillow? If the pillow is just lying there and no one is trying to force it down on you, It'd be pretty pathetic to die to. I'm pretty sure I've slept with pillows on top of me too, I sure didn't suffocate.

 

[Canid117]

Hit him with every legal book you can throw at him court system! First for killing a baby because of his own damn laziness and second for trying to blame something other than himself for his sons death.

Andrew Warner is a disgusting excuse of a human being.

I don't understand how you suffocate on a pillow? If the pillow is just lying there and no one is trying to force it down on you, It'd be pretty pathetic to die to. I'm pretty sure I've slept with pillows on top of me too, I sure didn't suffocate.

It was probably a dress pillow which is much heavier than a regular pillow and also it was a baby. They die easily.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

Wow.....

I honestly don't feel any pity for this guy. He said he knew it was happening, and chose not to prevent it. That choice should make this a case of murder/infanticide rather than manslaughter.

I wish my best to the wife, however. I'm truly sorry you're husband thought a game was more important than the life of your child. Let it be known that I could never imagine what you're going through and would never wish it on anyone.

 

[Qitz]

Think the title "Idiot tries to use game as a scape goat. AGAIN." fits better.

 

[Rayne870]

I know the guy and no he's not a fucking idiot or a sicko. He loved his child very much and his family has been torn apart as a result.

 

[mnjiman]

I am sure the father is devastated by what occurred and will never figure himself. I bet he deleted his WoW account over this.


In the end, all that matters is that his son died. This is very tragic. If the blame game has to be played, it has to be on the father.

It wasnt the game that was watching over the child, it was the dad.



I feel sad now

Edit

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.

WOW is an addictive POS without any meaning and substance. I think it's time someone ban game studios and publishers from hiring psychologists to help them make a game more addictive. Yeah, sure, the guy is an idiot, but so are Blizzard. There are to many examples like this one to be a mere coincidence.

Like i just said, it wasnt the game that was watching over the child, it was the dad. If alcohol was involved, same thing could be said about substance abuse. This person is an adult and they should be responsible enough to control their impulses.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

if I was going to do something like that I wouldve had the baby in the same room I was playing the game in. just to keep an eye on the kid just incase.

That's also terrible - couldn't he have dumped a quilt on the floor and let the kid roll around on it in the same room as him, if he was going to be that deeply engrossed in his game? I mean, why did he let a fragile baby play on a relatively high surface with nothing around him but pillows? Wouldn't you just stop there and go "oh, crap, he might push past the pillow and fall!" as soon as you put him there? Christ...

this by far. a couple of blankets with a toy or two with fenced pillows is perfect for a baby on the floor,

still..i've heard of worse stories in the past year, but nonetheless..dude.fucking bad choice, idiots, don't have children, please!

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

Achievement unlocked: bad father
Let your son suffocate while playing your favourite game.

 

[ltbigjohn]

Fuck man
The news has been sucky all around today.

just lately too

 

[norender]

Dude, some people should not play that game. Like for instance, someones house was on fire, and he got yelled at because he went away from keyboard. Some people should not play certain games if they cant leave the game for a period of time, or they cant wait for people patiently. But this is ridiculous, because of a game he let someone die.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

I think people are taking out of context what was said in court, especially since it hasn't got to the point for him to make his final statement. He may be utterly wracked with guilt and self-loathing, I know I would. He only explained why he didn't, it doesn't justify it but it's the truth, he didn't take the pillow off because he wanted to get back to WoW. Nowhere does it say "It's really the games fault". He has to provide this information and it's relevant to the case. People on the internet get so irrational.

Back to point, I feel sorrow for the tragically early loss of life that occurred here, and for those close to the child in their time of mourning. This was irresponsible parenting in the extreme, and is indicative of an uneducated and immature approach to parenting. While he showed some forethought in making sure the child was secure, ignoring it's cries and generally not being in sight of the child at all times was callous and reprehensible. However, it sounds as though he will plead guilty to the charges, as he should, so this shouldn't be protracted. He will likely have lost everything important to him now, if that isn't torture he isn't human.

His lies don't make sense, I assume it's fear in face of losing his loved ones. Although to say his inaccurate depiction of his game time is a lie is a stretch, assuming he did find the child before she got home, he wouldn't have spared a moment to turn it off between weeping and having a break down. Or he might have just misjudged. The pillow lie was surely trying to save himself from looking utterly loathsomely negligent.

Edit: The murder theories I've read are quite disturbing, I hope for the sake of humanity it isn't true. Murdering an infant is unimaginably evil.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Great. Another scum of the earth failure that us gamers will have to foot the blame for because he can't accept it himself.

I play WoW. A lot. But I'm not so addicted that I "can't be bothered" to get up and do something else when needed. This guy is just pond scum...It's not WoW's fault.

 

[superbatranger]

Well, that sucks quite a bit.

I believe that's putting it lightly.

 

[Levitas1234]

his attorney obviously told him to change is story to blame world of warcraft to soften the penalty

 

[tetron]

Man Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing WoW

Man Let Son Suffocate

Fixed.

 

[Zakarath]

On one hand... that's pretty terrible.
On the other hand... human babies get themselves killed that easily? That's pretty terrible.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

First, does Mass Effect have guilds that require players to be on at a certain time to raid? Cuz if it did, then yeah it would.

Well, that's not a good thing. It's a video game, not real life. No video game should ever dictate, "You have to play it at this time." Video games are an activity of leisure, which means after youre done school and/or work, it's time for games. Not rearranging your whole schedule just to play a game.
Which is another reason WoW sucks.

Though don't get me wrong, having Pokemon games dictate that you can only catch certain pokemon at certain times of day isn't fair either.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

I personally blame WoW BECAUSE It's WoW, but I do blame the man for total neglect. Hell when im babysitting my Neice, if shes crying or my sister asks me to look after her for a bit I exit whatever game straight away and tend to her.

 

[Rayne870]

I think the problem is people aren't understanding that the man DID NOT KNOW that the baby was suffocating.

The problem is he was too involved with the game to be bothered CHECKING if the baby was okay.

Hearing a baby crying isn't exactly an alarm that says loud and clear "OH GOD THE BABY IS DYING DROP WHAT YOU'RE DOING THIS SECOND AND GO SAVE IT"

Babies cry all day long, all week long, all month long, about anything and evverything. They might look at their toes and suddenly find they scare them.

While I personally would get up and check on a crying baby right away, I can see how 10 years in prison are VERY undeserved in this case as the guy clearly cannot read minds and did NOT know the baby was dying, at worst he probably felt it needed a diaper change. Not exactly a life threatening problem needing immediate attention.

To sum it up? Terrible accidents happen. Next time put the baby in a crib.

He did check his baby several times that night just like he did every other night. He loved Brendin just as he loved his other three children whom are alive and healthy. He isn't some sort of demon and he has been a total wreck since the loss of Brendin. He wasn't there for one very short period and as a result Brendin is dead, and Andrew has never gotten over that and never will.

To others here, he isn't using WoW as a scapegoat, that just happened to be what he was doing at the time of death. The media is sensationalizing it and the police/military and investigators have made a monster out of him when he isn't.