Nine-Year-Old Dies Imitating Wrestling Videogame
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Why blame the parents, b/c, I know I LOVED the chapter about imitating "rastlin'" in The Audacity of Hope. And I was truly inspired by the chapter on the same topic in "The Secret"... Whoever was supposed to be watching this mildew on the gene pool probably did us all a favor by dropping the ball quite so thoroughly on their upbringing...
I'll place blame on this situation squarely on the parents and the sister in charge of watching him. While you don't need to hover over them, they shouldn't be allowed to leave the apartment when nobody is watching. And certainty when the parents are home, his video game system shouldn't be raising him, as it would seem to be the case. Not a video game issue, a parental issue in my mind.
My sympathies go out to the family of that child. I think it should be stated that kids find stupid ways to kill them self?s and each other all the time. I hate when they blame video games for it because if it wasn't video games then it would be because of the Simpsons or a Blink182 song or something. It?s easy to blame the media instead of bad parenting.
And where the hell WAS the sister? That is a damn good question.
And where the hell WAS the sister? That is a damn good question.
It's a shame that the child died. My thoughts are with him and his family.
Concerning the video-game aspect of this story, it doesn't make much sense. As was stated in the article, jumping off of a roof has nothing to do with the game. Even a 9-year-old knows that if you jump off of the top of a building, you will most likely die. Many kids experiment with plastic bag parachutes, but when I did it, it was from my sofa, and I was 5. This kid was 9 and did it from the top of a building. I have to say that maybe that kid had some undiscovered mental problems. That's the only explanation I can think of.
Concerning the video-game aspect of this story, it doesn't make much sense. As was stated in the article, jumping off of a roof has nothing to do with the game. Even a 9-year-old knows that if you jump off of the top of a building, you will most likely die. Many kids experiment with plastic bag parachutes, but when I did it, it was from my sofa, and I was 5. This kid was 9 and did it from the top of a building. I have to say that maybe that kid had some undiscovered mental problems. That's the only explanation I can think of.
"He tried to do a swan dive like Jeff Harding (sic) does in SmackDown. That was his favorite game. He played it all the time," Murrel said. "That was what he was trying to do. If I would have seen him up there, I would have told him not to do it."
How is he so confident that he was trying to do a swan dive if he didn't see him? Is he a professional corpse examiner? Does he know what a body looks like if it died while trying to do a swan dive? Just because the kid played a game where people jump off crap doesn't mean it put the damned idea in his head!
Although, anytime you hear of children dying just depresses me.
How is he so confident that he was trying to do a swan dive if he didn't see him? Is he a professional corpse examiner? Does he know what a body looks like if it died while trying to do a swan dive? Just because the kid played a game where people jump off crap doesn't mean it put the damned idea in his head!
Although, anytime you hear of children dying just depresses me.
It's a shame he didn't live long enough to have taken some physics classes.
There's a shit-tonne of blame to pass around here, and none of it belongs in the lap of a wrestling video game. It doesn't even involve parachutes!
Also,
There's a shit-tonne of blame to pass around here, and none of it belongs in the lap of a wrestling video game. It doesn't even involve parachutes!
Also,
LOL, good sir.KDR_11k said:
Any parent who blames games for there kids death should never have been allowed to have kids in the first place. The parents are obviously idiots if they dont say to there kid "None of that stuff is possible." Plus I didnt think that wrestlers in games jumped 13 stories with a shitty parachute and land on the opponents. The sister is the one who should be blamed considering how long was it until she realized "Hey wait a second wheres my brother" she obviously doesnt know ANYTHING about watching children LEAST OF ALL children under the age of 10, because if she did the kid wouldnt have been able to get out of the appartment.
Jesus Christ on a motorized jetski.
That's so sad, but the kid's family must have did a craptacular job raising him.
That's so sad, but the kid's family must have did a craptacular job raising him.
What this guy said. This is just a case of a nine-year-old child thinking he can fly, and trying to parachute off a building. It has nothing to do with the videogame, or even with real wrestling. If the parachute isn't clear enough evidence that he wasn't trying to imitate wrestlers, I think the fact that he jumped off the roof of a 13 storey apartment building is, instead of, say, the armrest of a sofa.Robert Zimmerman said:
^^THISKDR_11k said:
Let's be reasonable... I remember being 10 and watching wrestling. I work at a school and interact with kids the same age. I have some insight to that mind-set. Do we know if the kid in question was mentally challenged or not?
I've stood on the roof of a 5 story building at 10-11 and it never occurred to me to make a parachute and jump.
At that age there is no excuse for being unable to differentiate fantasy and reality in an extreme situation like that, unless he was challenged.
