Boy Hangs Himself After Watching Saddam

[Nubclear]

i hanged myself by accident it wasnt funny at all

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Tacc
i hanged myself by accident it wasnt funny at all

I feel an urge to say something like, "Try harder next time," but I think I'll refrain.

[khines]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Sorry to rain your parade, guys, but that is definitely not funny.

Yes it is.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Lorizael

Just take the second sentence as clarifying how the first was meant.

Anyways, if you think about this from the perspective of the parents, this is obviously extraordinarily tragic and not funny at all. But if you're a casual observer with no emotional connection to the event, it's definitely quite amusing.

I am a parent. Not of the boys in question obviously, but a parent nonetheless. I raised a child until he was adult and left home, and having done that I know and can judge, what stupid things children can do out of curiosity. For instance (I mentioned that 1-2 times here), my 7 years old son brought a Panzerfaust from WWII home. He dug it out of a pile of sand and had played with it for several hours. Could have ended tragically too. The worst thing is, you can't really blame children for being curious and trying stupid things out. It's how children are, which is good in most cases, but very bad in incidents like this.

Return to me once you have raised a child and dealt with this sort of **** and tell me, if you find it still amusing.

[Donegeal]

So where did the kid learn to tie a noose?

[Lorizael]

I don't really care to, honestly. I didn't ask you to find it funny or amusing.

From my perspective, as an immature, reckless, and irresponsible twenty one year old with no desire for children, it's funny - until I think about it from the point of view of the parents.

If it's not funny to you from any perspective, *shrug* I won't lose any sleep over it or think any less of you.

[KrazyHorse]

It's not funny. The kid was ten years old.

This is coming to you from an insensitive *******, as you all know.

[Lorizael]

What I think this proves, though, is that it was wrong to go to Iraq. This kid's blood is on Bush's hands.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm glad you came to the same conclusion I did.

[Sava]

This just proves that there is too much violence on TV.

If this boy didn't hang himself from watching Saddam die, he would have played Grand Theft Auto and killed a bunch of prostitutes.



violence in the media

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

This is sad and extremely un-newsworthy.

wtf Markos?

[Jon Miller]

I saw it on the news this morning when I was exercising.

JM

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Zoid
What´s wrong with you people?? I had a friend who hanged himself by accident when he was 14. Stupid? Yes. Funny? Hell no!

I'm sorry for being a heartless bastard, but maybe I grew up faster than kids these days.

By around age 10 most if not all my grandparents had died, and I had seen enough cowboy films and war films to be aware of what death was and the various ways that people can die.

By age 14 I was probably trying to hang myself deliberately over some bad school reports.

The earliest memory of confusion about reality vs non-reality and death would have been about age four, when I got my first toy guns and holsters. I refused to wear the holster because I thought I'd kill my mum, in the same way that everyone wearing holsters on the cowboy films killed people. An hour or so of education and persuasion put me straight.

Presumably people here are demanding that all video games should be banned for children under sixteen, and all films, books and tv too. You never know what they might try.

[Cort Haus]

I should add that I grew up betwen the ages of about 2 and 5 in a war zone (Northern Ireland) where death and bullets and bombs and helicopters were everyday things.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
This is sad and extremely un-newsworthy.

wtf Markos?

how many executions have then western media shown the last 50 years so many times and when did we have such incidents before?