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I don't recall Gaara ever using a move involving burying himself in a sandbox.
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I don't recall Gaara ever using a move involving burying himself in a sandbox.
The Porter family decided to donate their son's organs. They are still formalizing plans to lay him to rest.
wtf ppl! DO NOT WANT!
Thankfully, this idiocy removed him from the gene pool prior to reproduction.
For this, we can be grateful.
That's just sad...Quote:
Originally Posted by TheotheImpaler
I really can't think of anything else to say about it... such a tragedy... I feel just as sorry (if not more so) for the parents as well, for no parent should have to bury their child...
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Originally Posted by Hypnos
He was just a kid.Your a fucking ass hole.
May he R.I.P
10 years old is old enough to realize not to do something like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
Though after reading the article I'd blame the other kids who thought his thrashing around was "just playing around". Seriously, what the christ.
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Originally Posted by Jetsetlemming
That doesn't give anyone the right to act ignorant.The fact that someone died is enough to make anyone "realize" that's a horrible thing to say.
Horrible things come a dime a dozen here on the internet. I suggest you grow thick skin.
Anyone who can make it to age 10 and not realise that being buried head-down in a sandpit is a bad idea is either a grade-A idiot or someone who's been coddled far beyond safety. If it's the latter, I'm kinda sad that his lesson about the danger of the world was a final one. If it's the former, I don't have any sympathy for him or his friends.Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
Also, since you're intent on insulting my intelligence, it would strengthen your position if you could actually display a basic understanding of the english language.
Thousand of people die every day. Shit, Iraq alone accounts for roughly 100 violent civilian deaths per day. Yet that goes under the radar and dumbfucks like this are getting attention from the media and sympathy from everyone who reads it.Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
There's only so much sympathy for me to give. I'll save it for people who actually deserve it.
Just like Brodie Bruce said...
:objection!: Kids need conditioning in all parts of life, especially the parts that could kill them or signs that someone is in danger. The onlooking kids are just at fault as the dead one, all of the parents are stupid, I'm sorry. This could have been a heroic tale of 3 kids saving a dumbass from drowning in a sandbox (you don't know how hard that was to type, it makes no fucking sense.) but instead it's a newsblog telling us that 4 dumbasses let one die because they thought it was part of the act.Quote:
Originally Posted by mallrats
Oh, yeah, sometime later in the movie the kid dies on the escalator...
"Somebody get a medic! There's a little boy caught in the escalator!"
So he died eventually? Last I checked he was in critical condition or something equally bad.
Ensue worldwide anti-anime movement.
LOL.WOW! why do I bother with dumb idiotic people like you anyways?Listen smart ass...If i didn't have a basic understanding of english...how am I reading and responding back to your ignorant ass?Like I said: dumb fuck!Oh and guess what? Not everyone that comes to an english speaking website speaks english for their first Langage!And yeah we know you don't have any sympathy for him or anyone else,I mean how could you when u said something so fucked up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hypnos
Anyways, I'm down taking to trash like you and don't worry I have a life so I won't be looking back at this thread to keep up some meaning less argument with someone like u (that means you get the last word in,enjoy).
Hi! I'm common sense. Have we met? It's hard for me to meet everyone. Sometimes they come to be youtube stars, or stars in Jackass, or just get hurt/die.Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
I find it funny that you said, "you" and then use the letter "u" in the middle of that ad hominem statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
Nothing like making a big internet stud like yourself misspell almost every word (you did mean "done" not "down" right?) to insult people with cursing, the crutch of the english language, proudly claim you have a life (how's that working out for someone with the personality to use alucard with a number next to the username, which I hope isn't the age otherwise back to high school english for you) and stomp off into just clicking out of the website in your browser!
eggo, maybe it's the year he was born in. methinks he's 17.
Wow, alucard19 really is an oversensitive cretin.
Also, I laugh at the kid who thought that being buried alive would give him super powers. Him, and the others who were with.
Eh, I was going to say something about Avatar being a possible motivator, but even though the main character can manipulate earth, I don't quite remember him ever burying himself in it. Then again, I've seen like...one episode, so what the fuck do I know?
Millions of children grow up seeing violent cartoons and stuff like what that kid saw, yet we don't see this kind of shit all that frequently. I doubt the anime is to blame, really. Ok, it might have given the kid a stupid idea, but he's the one who went through with it. :shrug:
Oh, that's understood. I was getting at the possibility that maybe Naruto wasn't his motivation, not that the kid wasn't stupid for following through on whatever his motivation actually ended up being. ;)
Oh, my bad. I don't watch anime, so that went way the fuck over my head. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Cyberxion
While Hypnos was a little bit blunt, and I probably wouldn't go so far as to say something like that myself, I don't think it's an indication of a lack of compassion or sympathy as a whole on his part. He's simply making a very valid point. It's hard to be sympathetic here when, unless you happen to have several tons of sand dropped on you all at once, suffocating in a sandbox is...not exactly the sort of thing that should ever happen by accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
Don't get me wrong, I actually get pretty upset hearing stories like this, and can't even begin to imagine the feeling of loss his parents must be going through... I'm not about to joke or make light of the situation. But you've got to wonder at how a kid that age could not realise that lack of oxygen = very, very bad. Or, if we assume that he was simply lacking in common sense (as, to be fair, I was too at that age), why one of his friends didn't stop and point it out? Or even why his parents let him play unattended in a sandbox, knowing that he was, presumably, not the sharpest tool in the shed of common sense? As far as I'm concerned, if your child doesn't know that sticking their hand into fire will get them burned, you don't let them go near fire until they do.
So yeah, as upsetting as it is, I think it's hard to view this as a tragedy so much as just carelessness. It's a tragedy when a maniac breaks into a school and shoots a bunch of defenseless kids. It's a tragedy when someone gets plastered, gets behind the wheel, and mows down a mother and her three-year-old daughter. This, though? It's sad, but only sad in that it so easily could have been averted. So I can see where Hypnos is coming from, and I don't think you should be so quick to equate his comments with some sort of absolute lack of compassion on his part.
No, but I'd assume anyone from Virginia would speak English as their first language. Or at least speak it fluently :wacko:Quote:
Originally Posted by alucard19
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Meet Ed. The voice of sanity in this place. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Elin
I was going to post something down the same line of thought but I'd just look stupid now. :P
Bam! :Iron Man: /109 hit comboQuote:
Originally Posted by Panda Man
It's a shame the ten year old wasn't smart enough to see the danger in this, and that the other kids who did the burying were, just...dumb.
Out of psychological curiosity, I asked my four year old nephew whether he thought that it would be a good idea to be buried in his sandbox. He looked at me real funny, then said "Nooo, then you couldn't breave". Then, I re-assured him that it was a bad idea, just to be sure I didn't accidentally put the idea in his head.
If my four year old nephew is smart enough to realize that this is just stupid, then the ten year old has no excuse. Nor do his friends.
I smell a Darwin Award.
Gaara had a demon inside of him too. I wonder if this kid worshiped Satan.
Yeah...Pagan, judgment-impaired, Anime-nerd 10 year olds for the win.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strongbad
Seriously, as tragic as a child dying is, this is the perfect display of idiocy. Someone, call Hillary; give her this news story to piss and moan about so she can go on an anti-anime campaign and leave all of us underage gamers alone.
Anyone else sense a possible lawsuit against someone? My civil court-o-meter is twitching a bit.
Story sad. Boo hoo. Could've been adverted. Kid lacked common sense, parents lacked it also. Maybe the parents get lucky with the next kid.
/Not loosing sleep. Got my own family and health problems to worry about.
the kid wasn't actually imitating gaara he was imitating an ostridge because they went on a trip to the zoo the week before. its the teachers and parents fault for not telling the kid that ostridges don't actually bury their heads in the sand.
http://maxmanifesto.com/images/ostridge.jpg
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/218800.html
interesting and on topic see i googled head in sand and this site came up so i searched kick the bucket and voila.
Can the kids of today get any stupider! Really though someone should ask this question.
Wow.... this is both sad, and STUPID!!!
Not funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hypnos
but true nonetheless...Quote:
Originally Posted by MexiSnake
I think the point everyone is missing here is the physiological possibility of actually being buried head first in the sand to your chest. First off how deep is this fuckin sand box? most I played in as a child were like a foot deep. and the fact that he was in there, upside down long enough for them to start packing it around him enough to not be able to get out, seems a little shaky to me. Even if they did dig out the almost 8 cubic feet of sand (which most ten year olds would give up on long before) one of the four had to go "yeah are you sure you want to try this?" I don't think it was an accident at all.
Don't get me wrong yeah its sad and yeah one way or another the kids weren't acting like normal thinking human-beings, but apparently we have some cold hearted bastards here.
What's not funny is you not seeing the humor in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MexiSnake
Some dumbass kid got himself dead. Good. Less stupidity in the next generation.
Even if they got him out of there, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. They will find someone to blame, and it won't be long til they start blaming cartoons for incidents like that. Before long, they'll blame the First Amendment for being "unsafe for children." what will the parents do next, though? Arrest my laptop for hardware failure? Sure this tragedy was preventable, but I can imagine the fallout of what could eventually happen. Remember kids, there's "safe" and then there's "overprotectiveness as a result of safeness" not that there's anything wrong with safety. The kids are gonna do something stupid eventually, regardless of the risks involved. The more we tighten the laws, the more we realize that the very laws designed to keep us safe are doing more harm than good. I'm not trying to justify what happened, though. I'm not as cold-hearted as people would like to think.
Come on, you know where you find sympathy in the dictionary don't you?
Between Shit and Syphiliss. no one wants that.
I tried to look at the link but the stories expire or something, while the death of any child is tragic you can't get all bent-up about every death, children of any age try things they shouldn't most of the time they end up fine and have a couple of bruises and cuts and a story to tell their mates.
On the flip-side this can happen, sad to hear about it but not really going to change my day to day routine. Oh and just to add for some sick humor; Why didn't the friends(assuming he wasn't alone) look to an old woman for help, maybe they weren't hardcore Naruto fans, that's the real crime here