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Spider-Man 2 Game Rewarded To Tusk-Impaled Spidey Copycat
Thanks to FirstCoastNews/AP for its article discussing the videogame reward for a Florida child who impaled himself on an ornamental elephant tusk while impersonating Spider-Man. Apparently, after viewing the movie and "playing at his grandmother's home, imitating some of the super hero's moves... the boy lost his balance... and then hit the heavy mahogany elephant.. and half the elephant's large ivory tusk broke off and got stuck in his body." Post-accident, the boy's mother explained "she was proud of her son keeping his composure during the ordeal... [and] he'll be rewarded with a Spider-Man 2 video game [as recently covered on Slashdot Games]", saying "That was his motivation through it all... I'm like, whatever it takes." Feel free to suggest other hospitalization-related acts that could be performed to receive a similarly-themed videogame.
... isn't it nice that, for a change, people (at least one person) don't go totally moral-panic, demanding censorship and warning labels on everything?
I heard about this guy that worked at some place with these other guys that some friends of my second cousin knew, that REALLY wanted a copy of Half-Life. This was back in like '98. See, this guy's wife really, really, really didn't understand what the gane was about, so the guy tried to show her why he wanted it so bad and pulled out a crowbar and started whaling on things all over the house!
Once she got out of the coma, and he got off his 3-4 year sentence, he got their kid's copy of Half-Life with the divorce settlement and he's had all the time he needed to play it ever since!
True story!
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is that he got rewarded for impaling himself while doing something dumb.
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
Electocute yourself trying to rig up a virtual sex machine... win Final Fantasy
Jump in front of a Subaru win GT 2...
Walk down any lower east LA street... win Doom II
Return from Iraq... win Splinter Cell
Fight of a gater in Florida, win Redneck rampage...
Surf the net unprotected, win IE 6... oh you would have to have it already to do that...
Impaled by a tusk imitating Spiderman... could have been worse... He could have taken grandma out in the process...
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What the heck was an elephant statue with sharpened tusks doing at the same elevation as a 5-year-old? While I have no kids of my own, I have several dozen young cousins, and the first rule of watching 5-year-olds is to make sure that dangerous and fragile items are stuffed in a closet before they arrive.
I think grandma here is more interested in not being sued for negligence herself.
I see this kid getting a Darwin Award sometime in his life. At least he has something to look for.
the elephants. Clearly elephants are attempting to destroy our youth. Before they were content just to spy upon them from afar, but now their sleeper agents are attacking our children in our own homes. Something needs to be done.
Remember, if not us, who? If not now, when? Join G.A.E.I. (Gamers Against Elephant Impalement) today. Get G.A.E.I. today, for the children.
How about being utterly absorbed by a MORPG, forsaking your family, job and any outdoor activity to completely immerse yourself in the gaming experience. What do you get after spending 96 straight hours battling in the realms of Norath?
.hack//infection, .hack//mutation, .hack//outbreak or .hac//quarantin, of course.
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I'm the last person to whine about contents on Slashdot, but I wondered what the editors had in mind to slip this one through : It seriously has -nothing- to do with games, and -nothing- with anything Slashdot related : it's stuff i normally find on Fark.
How bout next time including the end tag 'hilarity ensues' ?
Yet another reason why ivory elephant tusks should be banned.
Really - there will be people out there calling for SpiderMan to be banned because of this. I say ban tusks as if the tusk was not there, the accident could not have happened.
I'm curious about the scene in SpiderMan 2 where he impales himself on an ivory elephant tusk. I suppose it's lucky he hadn't been watching Edward Scissorhands.
Ah! So thats what you get for receiving a darwin awards honorable mention.
Karma: -2^0.5 . Mainly due to the imbibing of dihydrogen monoxide
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... because it would have sucked if the reward was, say, a ornamental mahogany elephant. Ouch.
Of course, since children never play, and we absolutely need to discourage them from doing so.
Who are these parents taking their 5 year old child to the PG-13 movie? That's why we have movie ratings, folks...pardon me if I sound like a over-conservative moron. It never fails, whenever I go see a movie like Kill Bill, there is always one parent with his/her 3, 4 and 5 year olds in the theatre. I just don't get it. I don't need a baby crying all throughout my movie.
they'll be giving the kid the console version and not the crappy PC version.
There's a difference between discouraging children from playing, and teaching them some common sense. Like, climbing around on stuff inside the house. That's what the outside is for. Go climb a tree, the grass is there to break your fall!
"If Common Sense was so common, it wouldn't be such a valued trait."
If I went on a rampage with a chainsaw, picked off nine people with a hunting rifle, and stole a Ferrari with the purpose of getting across town to steal a tank from the local barracks, would I get a copy of GTA: Vice City?
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She's rewarding behavior that could have got the boy killed. I hereby dub her "The Anti-Darwin".
Reminds me of a friend of mine who was playing touch football in somebody's yard and was accidentaly impailed on the antler of a wrought-iron deer lawn statue. Missed his vitals, so we can laugh about it as he only ended up with a few stiches and a good scar story. I dont think anyone bought him a football for it though. But in either case its refreshing to see that they're saying, yeah, he's a dumb little kid, dumb little kids do dumb things and sometimes hurt themselves, lets not blame someone with deep pockets who we can sue.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Wait, a mahogany statue with ivory tusks, bought in Africa? If someone should be impaled, it's this kid's grandmother for buying that thing - African mahogany means rainforest and ivory means poached elephant. This is an open-and-shut case of karma and IMO that old hag got off lightly.
As for the kid getting a game, whatever, parents do stuff like that to cheer their kids up. I remember getting a copy of Master of Orion after yanking out a tooth.
Well... living on the lower north side of Pittsburgh, heard a story about a woman with a batman fettish. To make it short she was tied to the bed when her husband jumped off the dresser, hit his head on the ceiling fan, knocking himself out. All she could do was scream till someone called the police. They found Batman knocked out on the floor with a naked woman tied up in bed. =)
So some kid is playing around, falls and hurts himself rather badly. The fact that he was pretending to be Spider Man was beside the point. Kids get hurt all the time when they're playing pretending to be all sorts of things. I see nothing special here.
Kids are going to have imaginations, they're going to play, and they're going to get hurt doing so. It's a fact of life.