Nine-Year-Old Dies Imitating Wrestling Videogame

[Broken Orange]

This reminds me when i was a little kid, I borrowed my cousin's copy of Mortal Kombat and and pretended to fight like that robot dude(don't worry, I did this by my self, one was hurt. I did strange things like that when i was young). My point is, little children imitates things they like. Granted, it was a little unwise to swan dive off a 13 story apartment...

 

[DigitalSushi]

Natural selection: It works!

Does it?, your still here making crap comments.

 

[Laughing Man]

Sorry but medical treatment, living conditions and the general world of today has limited evolutionary effects that would otherwise lead to premature death. All this was is evolutions way of fighting back.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

In light of this being WWE related, I offer this for the situation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W6YPih0SA&feature=related

Nonetheless, I have to wonder where the sister was and why was access to the roof of the building so simple. A child of that age should not be able to sneak out of their apartment and climb to the roof and should especially be made aware of the dangers involved in imitating wrestling moves. The game is rated for teenagers, which means the parents should have been extra cautious about their nine year old son to be certain he was aware of the danger.

This is the problem today, parents are lazy. When I was a child my mother actually sat down a few times and watched what I played and I played some violent video games (GTA at 13-14, Mortal Kombat at 5 although she was less aware of that.) There is no fault of the game or WWE here, just an absent minding child and poor parenting.

 

[JamesCG]

I'm pretty sure it's not Jeff Harding... Jeff Hardy, if I can remember from watching wrestling Oh so many years ago.

Oh yeah, dead kid. I hope his family doesn't take it too hard, and can get on with their lives swiftly. It's tragic, but events like these should not be dwelt upon.

 

[samsonguy920]

It is unfortunate that this was a case that the child wasn't able to learn from this, and my condolences to the family. As for blaming games for someone's actions, that is nothing but escapegoatism which anymore these days is becoming more a mental disease. It is sad that in this day and age there is so little emphasis on people taking responsibility for their own actions. Impersonating your hero or favorite tv show or game has been done since long before the tv was invented. I've impersonated pro wrestling moves, but that was off my bed's headboard onto the bed. I have even done sillier stuff which left me figuratively seeing stars and feeling dumb for what I had done, but not once did my parents lay blame on anything which might have affected my decision. I made the choice to do it, and I stand by that all the way to my final bad choice (which will probably be staying with caffeine, but what the heck!)

 

[Zersy]

correct me if im wrong, seeing as i do not own any wrestling games... but im pretty sure that people do NOT jump off buildings with parachutes and land on their opponents...

this is going to sound terribly cold... but im willing to bet that the 'best friend' suggested it and then when he realised what he had done blamed it on the game, seeing that blaming something on a game will definitely take the fall even if it is not to blame, simply because everyone is just looking for an excuse to ban video games..

the best friend stated :

"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 the hell does a swan dive have anything to do with a parachute! and how does he know that was the move he was trying to do if he did not see him jump off! he seems to know a god damn lot about exactly what was going through the jumper's head for someone who wasn't there!

I think it's because he did have the sense to think on how to prevent any damage by making a parachute

which explains why he there was a parachute

but your right about the friend part

How the hell did he know what he was thinking if he wasn't there ?

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Natural selection: It works!

No dumbass, not in this case. Nine year olds are naturally stupid, that's why they need parents to look after them. This particual kid was way more creative and brave than an avarage child, so it's actualy a waste to the gene pool that he died.
Think before you write.

Every idiot is creative and brave, that still doesn't stop them from dying though.

 

[SmugFrog]

"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!

Yeah, that was what I was thinking too! "I wasn't there too see it, but I'm pretty sure he was trying to do the swan dive with a made-up parachute because he played wrestling all the time! So it's the video games fault! And he was a jerk and wouldn't let me borrow it, so you should give it to me!"

WTF?

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Natural selection: It works!

No dumbass, not in this case. Nine year olds are naturally stupid, that's why they need parents to look after them. This particual kid was way more creative and brave than an avarage child, so it's actualy a waste to the gene pool that he died.
Think before you write.

Every idiot is creative and brave, that still doesn't stop them from dying though.

No, they're not. For instance, you're neither particularly creative nor brave.

I'm getting in your face on this because I don't like the /b/tardisation of the Escapist that seems to be progressing at an alarming pace. I don't like that at all; I want intelligent discussion, not knee-jerk assholery and certainly not the unimaginative sociopathy that passes for humour in all too many other Internet forums. You're not being funny, you're not being insightful, and you're not being helpful. That's not measuring up to the standards here at the Escapist, and I for one don't want to see the standards lowered because other online forums turned into cesspits without similar standards.

Lurk moar, noob, and maybe consider that when you were 9 years old you probably tried something just as dangerous and either lucked out or were stopped before things went horribly wrong. Also consider that, maybe, someday it might be your 9-year-old others are cracking Darwin jokes about.

-- Steve

 

[Bob_F_It]

Damori Miles died after jumping from the roof of his 13-story apartment building with a parachute he'd fashioned from string and a plastic bag.

This sounds more like he was experimenting with parachuting... perhaps we should blame Medal of Honor: Airborne instead.

Honestly, this is a kid being kinda dumb, with tragic consequences. It has nothing to do with video games...
though I wouldn't mind much if professional wrestling games were banned, as they are generally pretty crap.

I have to blame the unapproved parachute as well. I don't think the wrestler in the game has one.

 

[SirDorius]

My two consciences have different things to say about this:

The good one says: They never jump from the rooftops in wrestling, so it has nothing to do with it. Children have wild imaginations and anything they see could lead them to dangerous experiments. That doesn't mean we have to keep them closed in a cage until they become older and more intelligent.

The bad one says: Natural selection... stupid children die, so they don't have even stupider children. In a few generations the race becomes smarter and we all have to profit from it.

 

[borediam113]

Natural selection: It works!

Damori Miles: Darwin award nominee 2009

 

[Cap'n_Wakka_Wakka]

This is stupid, no one in wrestling uses a parachute ever. This kid just thought he was being a genius with his own parachute and died. I hate when video games become the blame just because.

 

[plasma-x]

Natural selection: It works!

That is truly the bottom line in this situation...

 

[Vroboros00]

"Do a flip!"

 

[theshadowed1]

DUDE how can they blame a game if there were no witnssess, for all we know he might of been pushed or on drugs or just troubled or (big or) he was retarded.

I think this is just getting stuid nearly everythings connected to gaming now next there going to say "A 78 year old man stabbed a annoying neighbours dog when it wouldn't stop barking, experts blames a violent game he played 65 years ago"

why are they doing this next there going to say don't watch the news because somthing could make children re-enact crimes or terroism for no reason.
why is it games he might of watched a show where sombody did it with a proper parachute

 

[toasterslayer]

can we stop calling the kid dumb? hes 9!