Spider-Man 2 Game Rewarded To Tusk-Impaled Spidey Copycat 72
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.
Serious, but ... (Score:5, Insightful)
The sad thing... (Score:1, Insightful)
Good Mother (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:The sad thing... (Score:5, Insightful)
Question (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
hmm (Score:3, Insightful)
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' ?
Re:The sad thing... (Score:3, Insightful)
What would be sad would be if he didn't hurt himself acting like Spider-Man because he only sat around watching Spider-Man. Or if his play were limited to the videogame. I think that becoming a blob ensconced in front of a TV screen is a lot dumber than getting hurt while play-acting.
Re:Question (Score:3, Insightful)
The real issue is, what supposedly responsible person was letting him do this?
Jon Acheson
Re:When I was child... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Darwin would be angry.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Of course, since children never play, and we absolutely need to discourage them from doing so.
Parents? (Score:4, Insightful)
Goes around, comes around (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Question (Score:3, Insightful)
"Judge, I move for a motion of boys will be boys" -- Lisa Simpson. You can't watch kids 24 hours a day. They will always get up to some hijinx or other, you can't prevent that. You can try and instill how dangerous things are into them, but this kid was only five. These things happen, and it's just good to see that there are no lawsuits flying about the place for once.