Man Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing WoW

[Roganzar]

APRIL FOOLS!!....right?

One can only hope its a terrible one, but not likely.

 

[Nieroshai]

Solution should have been as follows:

/p Hey all, gotta go AFK. Kid's crying. BRB

Unless he was in a fight, in which case unnless it's against something quick like mobs, in which case which is more important, your kid who needs help or letting your party wipe? You can always return to the dungeon. This man has no excuse, not even WoW.


EDIT: I'm almost certain that absolutely every time this happens it makes headlines, so I'm actually pretty happy this happens less for WoW-heads than TV addicts and other causes. I'm certain because why not bump it to the front page if your agenda is to shut down the games industry?

 

[zidine100]

I have a sick feeling that it didn't play out like he said it did, I think the baby wouldn't stop crying and his blind rage resulted in a murder. Maybe that's just my inner cynic but the way he tried to lie is making him look more suspicious.

glad im not the only one who thought that.

it just doesnt add up to me, i mean come on ignoring a child crying and seeing him with his head under a pillow (im under the assumption these were at the same time), and then ignoring it, sounds somewhat far fetched to me.

 

[Digikid]

THIS! This is the main reason why I hate WOW with a passion. People that are too stupid and addicted and have weak minds that do not know enough to do more important things than play a horrible game.

Hope that he learned his lesson....the moron.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Sounds like he's trying to use a scapegoat. His whole story sounds... dubious to me. And to make that feeling even greater, the fact that he changed his story after the autopsy so much brings some things into question.
Edit:

I have a sick feeling that it didn't play out like he said it did, I think the baby wouldn't stop crying and his blind rage resulted in a murder. Maybe that's just my inner cynic but the way he tried to lie is making him look more suspicious./quote]Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

This was definitely the parent's fault, and not WoW's...

Having said that, you don't hear stories like, "Mane Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing Mass Effect." But with WoW, it's a regular deal.

 

[Nieroshai]

I have a sick feeling that it didn't play out like he said it did, I think the baby wouldn't stop crying and his blind rage resulted in a murder. Maybe that's just my inner cynic but the way he tried to lie is making him look more suspicious.

That poor mother, I hope he is firmly punished and she leaves him to find a better man and try again (someday).

I also find it suspicious: if he could audibly hear the screams both through the pillows and across the house and presumably through his headset(if you raid you gotta have one--he'd better be raiding or YES YOU CAN PAUSE: it's called logging out, it saves your coordinates and everything!) then the baby was indeed not suffocating at the time he heard the screams. You need air to scream, and you need a lot of air to consistently scream that loud.

 

[Mumorpuger]

The skinner box rears it ugly head....

 

[Nieroshai]

This was definitely the parent's fault, and not WoW's...

Having said that, you don't hear stories like, "Mane Let Son Suffocate Because He Was Playing Mass Effect." But with WoW, it's a regular deal.

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.
Also, I'm absolutely certain, because of our jealous media, every single instance of any crime or death that can even shakily be attributed to games will be bumped to the front page. So as far as I can tell, I can almost guarantee this is the only case of this in a long time. TV on the other hand: how many times did we hear the stories of a guy caught up in his sporting event or a woman in her soaps and ignored the baby? Enough that we stopped bothering to report it.

 

[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