12 year olds saves sister thanks to WoW
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Maybe it's just me but I know quite a few 12 year olds who can exercise common sense if they need to.danpascooch said:
This is probably just the begining, next he will get 24 of his friends and raid The Moose Territory for Some epic loot.
Who cares if it would work again, it did work, therefore saying it "wouldn't work" makes no sense. It worked.DJmagma said:
And it's not fake, news story and everything, it happened.
He's either stupid or he's not.Aby_Z said:
You are saying he's stupid because he attributed it to WoW, and he's smart because he knew that attributing it WoW would be good PR.
How is the same person supposed to be a stupid person, and a smart person?
Occam's Razor, he was stupid enough to think of what he would do in WoW when the moose attacked is a simpler explanation than the argument that he is "a savvy idiot"
Yeah I know they can be violent but out of all the bad things she couldve ran into a moose was the one that happened.emily123 said:
The source here says the kids were walking in the forest when they were attacked, while the Norwegian source I found ( http://www.nettavisen.no/innenriks/article1453635.ece ) says they were waking to school and took a shortcut through a garden.
The Norwegian article goes on to say that the moose actually managed to hit the boy, but his backpack took the brunt of the impact. It was only after getting knocked over he resorted to playing dead. The boy then found his sister and got on the school bus.
It sort of bothers me that he learned the concept of playing dead from WoW, though. Also, this story has been out since 2007.
The Norwegian article goes on to say that the moose actually managed to hit the boy, but his backpack took the brunt of the impact. It was only after getting knocked over he resorted to playing dead. The boy then found his sister and got on the school bus.
It sort of bothers me that he learned the concept of playing dead from WoW, though. Also, this story has been out since 2007.
What? Stealing a car, running into it, and flying through the windshield and killing it with your body?chenry said:
Cool in itself, and being proof that kids can learn things from games while not mixing reality and fantasy, double cool.
No, that's stupid. Really, you people suck at thinking if this is what you infer from what I'm saying...Feriluce said:
When doing saving his sister, it's much more likely that he simply didn't have a thought process; he just acted. At most, he uttered 'shit' or 'fuck' as there's not much else to say. All the thinking would be at when he's playing dead and that would more likely consist of "Go away, go away, go away!"
Afterwards, after telling this story to friends, they could've given him the idea to turn it into something positive about games. Regardless, it's idiotic to attribute such basic skills to WoW.
You too. Read my words. He's either savvy or an idiot. I never said both.danpascooch said:
I'm pretty sure he had to do some thinking, however quick it went. Seeing as he had most likely never been in a situation like that, its not something you just do (Catching a falling plate on the other hand would be something you just do by reflex).Aby_Z said:
Its just as likely that he used wow as inspiration for his actions that it is he used something else. In fact it is more likely, seeing as the moose situation can very easily be loosely compared to any encounter in wow, whereas the boy probably haven't had any experiences with hostile wild animals irl before.
