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A child once killed his 2 month old brother by imitating wrestling on the TV But Oooo it's on a video game I can already hear people blowing it out of proportion | |
Wait, I know its wrong to insult a dead person, but how on earth could ANYONE think jumping off a 13 story building is in any way safe... As stated in the article, the child should never have owned the game in the first place too. | |
I am slightly more interested in what Zimmerman said about that stuff not being in the game, and therefore how someone got the idea that this was because of the game. | |
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... | |
Okay, I admit I'm not a WWE fan and so may not be terribly current on the rules... but aren't parachutes considered foreign objects, and thus are barred from the ring? This isn't immitating a video game. Kids have been jumping off roofs with makeshift parachutes for far longer than video games have been around. This is a lame attempt to shift blame unto the current scapegoat. Note that I'm not assigning blame in this, as it's far too early and with far too few facts to do so even assuming it'd be justified or even useful. I'm just saying that if you're looking for culprits, don't pick games just because it's fashionable to do so. -- Steve | |
Natural selection: It works! | |
Where the hell was the sister when he decided to scale the roof? | |
Same thing happened years ago when Dragonball came out when a kid jumped from a building and called for the magic cloud or whatever its the name in english. If you wondering nothing showed up and the kid died. | |
Call me misanthropic but it seems that videogames don't make children violent, they make children stupid. | |
Said kid was dropped at birth and yet his parents (who were both also dropped at birth BTW) thought it would be the height of intelligence not to keep an eye on him in case he did anything in the least bit hat on head retarded, as is the norm for a normal 9 year old, but Jesus Christ he was dropped at birth for cumudgery's sake. | |
Exactly. | |
She was killing dogs in Call Of Duty: World At War. | |
Oh snap, ninjad. | |
doesn't jumping off something look exactly the same everywere? o.O They could just as easy claim that he was a friend that jumped off something. Why does he necessarily need to be imitating anything??? | |
This is just as bad the kid who had his friends bury him in sand thinking he was Gaara from the anime series Naruto. Although The Onion radio news has made a good joke today that oddly enough relates to this very well. It's in the radio section of the site dated for April 16th 2009. It is hilarious. | |
AHAHAHAH! I love it when natural selection pops up in the news! I was beginning to think it had disappeared, but this is great! Thanks for making my day, Malygris. On a serious note, it's good to see some intelligent responses from some of the press, and the WWE as well. Much better than the usual blind "games are evil," crap that I find everywhere. | |
Dammit! My bad. | |
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! | |
Um...
(Emphasis mine.) "Scaling the roof" probably consisted of climbing the fire stairs up to the top and then opening the door to the roof. That door should've been locked to prevent this, though it's faintly possible the kid jimmied the lock or slipped out when someone else was doing work up there and had the door open. As to where the sister was, well, climbing the stairs isn't exactly cause for drama... and you can't expect one kid to hover over the other every minute of the day. I said above that it's far too early to assign blame yet because we don't have the facts. This is why I said it. -- Steve | |
doesn't jumping off something look exactly the same everywere? o.O They could just as easy claim that he was a friend that jumped off something. Why does he necessarily need to be imitating anything??? | |
That is a really misleading title. No-one was quoted saying he was imitating a game apart from another 9 year old boy, who can't know his motives and isn't exactly a good character judge. Parachutes do not go with wrestling, and gamers are paranoid | |
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. | |
I blame the kid for being f***ing retarded! also, isn't that game at least TEEN rated? | |
BLAME VIDEO GAMES!!! THEY CORRUPT CHILDREN!!! | |
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. | |
Anyone bother to tell him that WWE wrestlers cannot fly? This is like that movie where the little girl thinks Micheal Jordan can fly... I can't remember what that movie is... a cookie for anyone who knows. | |
I lol'd - does that make me a bad man or you an astute commentator? | |
"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. | |
Hmmm... he's to smart.>.> | |
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,
LOL, good sir. | |
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. | |
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Nine-Year-Old Dies Imitating Wrestling Videogame
A nine-year-old boy who died after jumping off the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building was apparently imitating moves he saw in the PlayStation 2 game WWE Smackdown vs. Raw.
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. The boy had been left in the care of an older sister while his mother went to the store and neighbors said the alarm on the roof access door, which is supposed to sound when the door is opened, was broken. He was discovered early Tuesday evening and transported to hospital, where he died an hour later.
According to his best friend Shakar Murrel, Miles was attempting to imitate moves he'd seen in his favorite PlayStation 2 game WWE Smackdown vs. Raw. "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."
"It's terrible," added Shakar's mother Sumore. "The kids try to imitate what they see and they think they can fly."
It's difficult to fathom the motivations of a nine-year-old child but pointing the finger at WWE Smackdown vs. Raw seems like a dubious proposition at best. Even if we grant that kids that age may have trouble differentiating between 13 feet and 13 stories, why is the Smackdown vs. Raw videogame the focal point here and not the far more pervasive "real" WWE professional wrestling? WWE representative Robert Zimmerman called for a full investigation, pointing out that the game is intended for teenagers 13 and up and that nobody in the game uses parachutes or jumps off buildings.
"The death of Damori Miles is a tragedy and our condolences go out to his family," he said. "We should allow the authorities to conduct a full investigation... including insecure roof access, before conclusions are made about this unfortunate incident."
Source: NY Daily News, via GamePolitics
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