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NEWS: Boy Dies After Imitating Naruto in Sandbox

Makes you wonder what's up with these 2 titles and the people watching them.

Why do I suddenly hear "Blame Canada!"?

Whoever said I was lacking? Take it how you want of course, it is teh interwebs.

As far as that goes, there were younger kids with him. They never specified the ages, but the fact that there were younger kids is of concern to me. I'm not saying that you can't leave your kids alone all the time, but I highly believe it should have been wise too. I'm sure "OH, IT'S OKAY, WE'VE DONE IT PLENTY OF TIMES, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN!!"

....That story rests my case.

o_o oh, really? do we?

You seem to be looking for a "Great deal of sympathy." I'm not going to sit down and cry for this kid. We hear deaths on television every day, and this is minor compared to most of what I saw.

Point is, the child did ask for his head to be put in the sand. Actions that he caused led to his death. Parents were not supervising the children when it happened. So each are partially to blame. It was a simple accident that could've been prevented.

I see it as how it happened, whether you feel if it affects me greatly or little shouldn't be of any importance to you. I think you just misunderstood my whole post. But meh, whatever.

And please, don't assume that people *aren't* concerned about the kid's death.

Yeah, this is not a US only phenomenon. You're just going to hear about those because that happens to be where we are. Just because you're not hearing about it doesn't mean it isn't happening elsewhere.

The one thing that struck me when I read this article's first posting was, in all the while that this was happening, where in the hell were these kids' parents?

Even so, don't you remember the freedom you had as a kid as well?

Although, these comments definitely were not aimed specifically at you--I only used your quote in reference to my first point. I apologize if it seemed I directed my entire post towards you, as that was not the case. I definitely should have trimmed the parts out that I was referring to instead of leaving the entire post as it was. Again, I am sorry for that.

Sympathy? How so? I'm not saying "go and cry for this kid," or anything close to the matter. What appalls me the most is how others seemed to have eclipsed the tragedy at hand with the question of "what happens to anime?" That is where self-interest rears its ugly head.

The parents didn't know what he was going to do, and you can't seriously expect parents to watch their child's every movement. He was over a friend's house, a safe place. They were playing in the backyard in the sandbox, generally another safe place. It was an accident that this occurred, and could have happened within two minutes.

Kids do stupid stuff. It could have happened to anyone, and similar accidents like this already have. I never said anywhere that this 'greatly affects' you or anyone else. I was criticizing the callous way you seemed to have stated it, as it's a rather inappropriate response to this. Aside from that, you made some quite valid points and I should have acknowledged those rather than focus on what I believed to be bad.

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All the same, people on this forum have a right to worry about the fallout. Many of us have vivid memories of being called evil because we watched power rangers, or getting lectured for hours on end about "pokeyman" (Pokémon), and the evils associated with it. The fact is that there WILL BE some parents who get ahold of this news and spread fear and misunderstanding with it, and there WILL BE many young kids who love the show Naruto who will no longer be allowed to watch it. These are valid concerns for people on this forum, because being misunderstood and prematurely judged are probably some of the most painful experiences in life, even as adults.