Forum Topic: Wwe Game Blamed For Child Death.

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A 9-year-old wrestling fan jumped off his Brooklyn apartment roof wearing a homemade parachute in a fatal imitation of his favorite video game character, friends said.

The broken body of Damori Miles was found on the ground outside the Albany Houses about 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Wrapped around his body was the string and plastic bag he used for the parachute, police sources said. The boy died at Interfaith Medical Center an hour later.

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It say's the 9 Year Old had recieved 'Special Education Instruction'.
I think the parents don't want it to look like their son was a complete retard and so they blame the game.
The WWE Game is just a scapegoat for their son who was being a little bit too extreme.

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Why'd he jump off a building...retard...jump off your bed next time.

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I agree. Video games dont kill people, people kill people.


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Blaming the game is stupid. The kid was probably retarded though.

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That is just hilarious. "Look at me guys, I can fly!" Crunch!

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Well, you can "blame" the game in a certain sense, but you can't use it argue that the game is in any way unsafe, though the media loves to imply it.

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At 4/16/09 08:22 PM, Zerok wrote: Well, you can "blame" the game in a certain sense, but you can't use it argue that the game is in any way unsafe, though the media loves to imply it.

The damn media.....

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Lol, Jeff Harding?
I don't recall Jeff ever jumping 10 storeys with a parachute. Parents should take more responsibility for what their kids do.

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Did he even check to see if that 'parachute' actually worked?

Guess not.

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At 4/16/09 08:22 PM, Zerok wrote: Well, you can "blame" the game in a certain sense

That's like blaming stories for Hitler's actions.

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Other thread.

They always blame the media for their childrens' stupid choices.

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And the Moral of the story is, In video games you can fly, but in real life, you will fall.


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Violent video games don't create killers, killers are attracted to violent video games.

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At 4/16/09 08:22 PM, Zerok wrote: Well, you can "blame" the game in a certain sense, but you can't use it argue that the game is in any way unsafe, though the media loves to imply it.

Its not that they love telling people that a game disc can grab a gun and shoot up neighborhoods, but they just want to tell people whats intresting (no matter how damaging) to get your attention and watch their shows. Afterwards they are rewarded with monies and many sponsers.


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At 4/16/09 08:29 PM, lawlmaster wrote: And the Moral of the story is, In video games you can fly, but in real life, you will fall.

Let me rephrase this in a Mercenaries 2 saying.

Who needs a chute?


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At 4/16/09 08:29 PM, NineInchNoodles wrote: Violent video games don't create killers, killers are attracted to violent video games.

I realize this is irrelevant to the current issue, but I think it still needs to be said.

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It's bullshit like THIS that pisses me off.

It's understandable that parents blame deaths on games like GTA, or even some fighting games, but c'mon, really? The fucker JUMPED OFF A BUILDING. Therefore, it OBVIOUSLY means it was his WRESTLING game. What bullshit.


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Wait, WWE, like wrestling? How does parachuting off a building with a plastic bag relate to wrestling at all?

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jumping off a building in imitation of pro (fake) wrestling is stupid. I mean, seriously.

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Hmm.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1050 620 was made earlier but this one's opening post was much better.

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At 4/16/09 08:35 PM, Zerok wrote: Hmm.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1050 620 was made earlier but this one's opening post was much better.

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Well, the other one isnt getting any traffic. Let that one go die, and leave this one, unless they both come to the first page, then delete one.

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At 4/16/09 08:19 PM, Onizero wrote: Why'd he jump off a building...retard...jump off your bed next time.
Oh wait...

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Nasty way to go. Who was he trying to imitate anyway?

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Who the fuck was he trying to imitate? The Blue Blazer?


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That's silly, every little boy has experimented with flight since the Wright brothers. God knows I have, but I did it from an altitude of 10 feet with a couple of lawn umbrellas. Blame the kid for not knowing better, or the parents for not watching him, or physics for letting him die, but Jesus, it's just a natural curiosity, and WWE shouldn't be given that much credit.

Hell, I have personally been injured because of the WWF back in the day. In 4th grade, my friends and I were really into the WWF. One day, we were wrestling, and a 5th grader tried to Tombstone me, and he fucked it up horribly. He ended up ripping a good deal of muscular tissue in my left shoulder, and I was hospitalized for it, and was in a sling for a while. Did I blame wrestling? No. Did my parents blame wrestling? No. The fact of the matter is that boys will fucking be boys, and kids WILL hurt each other. It has been a fact of life since the beginning of time, and just because people have new scapegoats doesn't mean that people should sue.

In my opinion, being sent to the hospital a couple of times as a boy is a part of the life experience of the young male (and the young female, to a slightly lesser extent). I've had torn shoulder tissue, fat lips, broken teeth, broken wrists, burst blood vessels in my eye (from getting the edge of a lacrosse stick head in the flesh of my eyeball, an excruciating experience, let me tell you), fractured noses, etc., and I turned out fine. Getting hurt is a part of growing up, and statistically speaking, some kids are bound to be involved in fatal accidents. While I have sympathy for the family, I do not agree with their blaming a TV program for their child's death.


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Why didn't the parents teach the kid not to do stupid stunts like that?

The future is so screwed...

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Yeah, the same thing happens with most deaths, it gets blamed on video games.
Being antisocial is blamed on WoW, murder blamed on gta, etc.
It's not the game, it's the person that plays it, WoW for example doesn't make you antisocial, it just means your an antisocial playing WoW.
Hell, i played WoW for a few weeks, got to about lvl 12, never played again, you just need to moderate your life.

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Only 2,567,442 kids have died from pretending to be a WWE wrestler.


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At 4/16/09 08:29 PM, NineInchNoodles wrote: Violent video games don't create killers, killers are attracted to violent video games.

Like those kids who recreated their school in Doom to train for the actual killings?

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