familys fault for letting an impressionable kid play that game. Kids fault for being a moron. Game producers fault for not stalking every single person who buys game and makes sure no1 is injured by playing it.
Nine-Year-Old Dies Imitating Wrestling Videogame
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Railgun88 said:
SHHH!! dont draw attention to my potentially correct theory... you know when the police finnish their investigation im going to whip out an "i told you so" lol
Hell, I did it off a dumpster. I think we have all done something along those lines, it's just we all looked at it realistically and learned from our mistakes(I know I did). It just sucks that the kid didn't think before he leapt.Damien the Pigeon said:
I feel bad for the kid's family, but this is an act of stupidity... You can't go blaming video games for all this. I guess if you can't get real answers, people will tie the tragedy to whatever comes along.
I've never seen a wrestler use a parachute... I've been watching wrestling for like 15 years now.
I've never seen a wrestler use a parachute... I've been watching wrestling for like 15 years now.
so here's a kid that oviously can't tell reality from games (or TV, but that's speculation*), and they leave him alone on the 13. floor. not having taught him that jumping out the window is bad. buying him a wrestling game. that game is for ages 16+ for crying out loud. edit: that's the ESRB rating
(*: a 3-year-old jumped into the TV because of a chocolate commercial. http://lustich.de/bilder/zeitungen/in-den-fernseher-gesprungen/ btw,it's a german newspaper if you wonder why you can't understand a word ;-) )
(*: a 3-year-old jumped into the TV because of a chocolate commercial. http://lustich.de/bilder/zeitungen/in-den-fernseher-gesprungen/ btw,it's a german newspaper if you wonder why you can't understand a word ;-) )
"The game is intended for teenagers 13 and up and that nobody in the game uses parachutes or jumps off buildings."
Exactly. The boy was a dumbarse for thinkin it would work. Like previously stated, it is natural selection. His friend who is telling the story does seem to jump to SDvRaw. I've played many wrestling games, as I am a wrestling fan sadly, and I know jumping off a 13 story rooftop with a plastic bag is nowhere near ANYTHING that is in ANY wrestling game.
As a gamer and a wrestling fan, I get my share of stupid reasons for kids killing themselves/eachother. Everyone wants to blame something else. The parents had left their 9 year old son with his sister, while his sister was not paying attention, the door on the roof was broken, why not blame plastic bags? Even that would make more sence than video games. If anything, this was "immatating" (or rather pretending to) be a sky diver. His idiot friend brings in SDvRaw, and the press "have a field day".
And yes, parents DO need to enforce video game ratings, atleas until a certain age. When kids/teens are 14, they can handle most of the things in M games. However, a 9 year old should not be playing a Rated T game if the parents and the sister are not going to watch out for him. But I think video games in general are unrelated to this.
Exactly. The boy was a dumbarse for thinkin it would work. Like previously stated, it is natural selection. His friend who is telling the story does seem to jump to SDvRaw. I've played many wrestling games, as I am a wrestling fan sadly, and I know jumping off a 13 story rooftop with a plastic bag is nowhere near ANYTHING that is in ANY wrestling game.
As a gamer and a wrestling fan, I get my share of stupid reasons for kids killing themselves/eachother. Everyone wants to blame something else. The parents had left their 9 year old son with his sister, while his sister was not paying attention, the door on the roof was broken, why not blame plastic bags? Even that would make more sence than video games. If anything, this was "immatating" (or rather pretending to) be a sky diver. His idiot friend brings in SDvRaw, and the press "have a field day".
And yes, parents DO need to enforce video game ratings, atleas until a certain age. When kids/teens are 14, they can handle most of the things in M games. However, a 9 year old should not be playing a Rated T game if the parents and the sister are not going to watch out for him. But I think video games in general are unrelated to this.
To paraphrase the almighty Jules, "Empathy, ************. Do you speak it?"shadowelancer said:
Humans are social animals, and we work in groups. The ability to empathise with one another helps that... the lack of empathy hinders that. Natural selection should, if it works according to social Darwinist "theory", filter that out.
To everyone who came up with a lame "joke" about this kid's death, well, here's hoping someone shits in your loved-ones' casket when the time comes so you can feel what that sort of disrespect is like on the receiving end. (Assuming, of course, you're actually capable of forming emotional bonds with someone else.)
-- Steve
I feel sorry for the family but our gene pool is probably better off that this kid didn't make it reproduction age.
He jumped off the roof of a building. 13 stories up. I mean, yeah it's sad that he died, but come on...natural selection, right? Plus, his family couldn't have raised him that well. I would think that most people at that age would have the sense to not jump off the roofs of tall buildings. Plus, the fact that he had time to make a parachute suggests that he was left unattended for some time, it's not like he just darted out the door when his caretaker wasn't looking.
