Kid jumps off roof with a makeshift parachute... Wrestling games blamed.
 

LMAO @ "swan dive" and "Jeff Harding". Who's the kid's dad, Mike Adamle?

I just don't get how they're saying he was imitating Smackdown vs. Raw when he jumps off of an apartment building with a parachute. There aren't even any parachutes in the game nor is there a roof to jump off of.

The only game that I can think of that had that was Backyard wrestling... but that's not main stream enough to garner any kind of interest. So why not blame WWE. The kid is fond of the game so obviously he was trying to do what they do... even though none of them actually do that...

Blame the negligent mother who left her 9 year old special needs kid just to go to the store.

Most of the comments on that article said anything I could say about it.

Also, that kid was probably like 3 when Backyard Wrestling came out.

OH NO! We must send angry threatening letters and make nasty blogs to prove that this isn't true!

You know, the mother might have a better case if she claimed her son was doing drugs in order to imitate her favorite wrestler Jeff Hardy....

Why would you be sending a nine-year-old to the store? Sounds lazy.

Well, I guess I used to go to the store when I was nine, but I was never sent there. I was usually just buying candy or a playing the coin-ops.

it's generally acceptable to leave your 9 year old at home while you go shopping

Then again, he DID jump off his own building, so maybe this just horribly backfired on them.

It's possible they could have figured the store was not thirteen stories, and if he was going to refuse to give them his makeshift parachute, he'd have a better shot at survival there.

lol. Just caught that as well.

To be honest, I think they need to be more concerned about how the fuck a child can get to the roof of a fucking building like that.

Ridiculous.

Everyone knows you're supposed to imitate wrestling moves on a trampoline or possibly a pool.

How does he do a swan dive like Jeff Harding in Smackdown?

I thought the Swanton was designed for a neck landing?

Well You could Jump off the roof WWE New York in HTCP....however ya thats not the point

Ridiculous that WWE is being blamed. Blame the mother for leaving him alone. Also, I know all this has been said, but why was it so easy for him to get to the roof?

I liked this comment:

:lol:

"If I would have seen him up there, I would have told him not to do it."

I would hope so.

well they are either going to find him on is front or his back Thrilla :nono:

The Ultimate Risk-Taker doesn't take no for an answer

You always get stories of kids imitating Jeff Hardy.....Never Val Veins

Thus proving what I've said all along.

Jeff Harding must die so Jeff Hardy doesn't get any more blame.

Jeff Hardy doesn't do drugs. :wtf:

That kid sounds fucking retarded.

And that's my two cents...

Okay, It's Ironic me and my friend were talking about this the other day while putting in battlefield modern combat (cause I don't play many video games and that’s the only in years I’ve put at least 10 hours into)

We talked about the soldiers jumping of perashoots 3 stories high ( I think you have to be 50 or higher) and how some stupid kid would try it one day.

The media loves to blame wrestling......look into battlefield modern combat dip-shit-media, they jump of roofs that are 3 stories high.

In fact, one of the complaints I have with Smackdown vs Raw 09 is how they took out a lot of the Arial stuff (or if you can do it tell me) like simply climbing on the guard rail..... and in older versions every arena had different things to climb, for example the king of the ring set had a huge chair as part of the set where the titantron would usually be, and you would be able to climb it...every arena was unique with its own places you could jump from. There aren’t many unique spots per arena in the newer versions.

Actually, it would've been more appropos if the parent had really screwed up in the grief of the moment and said he was trying to do the "swan song bomb" or something to that effect.

Horrible, I know, but still, makes you wonder why his folks weren't paying attention to the kid.

Did anyone make the connection after reading my post. I was going to make an edit write away cause I thought about it after clicking and had to go, I'm sure eventually someone would have said the same thing.

The game that you jump out of a 3 story (i think even 2 stories) building is called Battlefield Modern Combat... The Pentagon gives out tons of money and other resources for these games to be made, and not make *the army look bad*(edit). Just look at the power the pentagon has over war movies in the motion pictures guild of America or whatever it’s called. They screen every movie and actually have advisors on set to make sure recruiters can still recruit. If you don't want to fallow the pentagon’s rules then you don't get access to anything military (which CGI is eliminating the need for I guess) Notice in a lot of cheaper budget movies the US military attire is changed, there’s a reason for that (might just be that they don't want civilians with them, I see it mostly in Stephen King movies but I guess it's supposed to be set in another fantacy world line)

The point I'm getting at is Modern Combat, (the war is in I believe set in Kazakhstan (or one of the K-stans) with NATO troops either defending or pushing their way towards the Chinese boarder, I believe there is also an arab/islamic coalition of unnamed countries. pretty much the place around Russia where the US army is placing themselves in right now for possible future cold war 2, army and navy.(with all the Russian territories/former territories which part of the populations [depending on the country] either wanting to be part of the EU or be part of Russia again, causing lots of civil unrest. that's where our kids are going to be, especially if they make the dumb move of letting those new EU countries full of enemies join NATO, putting us at their every war against Russia and Rebels who want to be part of Russia, but I’m sure Obama see’s it as a way to expand the war on terror. That would be a great way to start world war 3.

I'm sorry if I went off topic but the point is the Pentagon and Military recruiters love this game and others like it, they like to sell the army is being more sophisticated with much more unmanned weapons and drones "like a video game". It's training them military tactics for when they get real training and the army knows this...god forbid they crack down on these games...The WWE is Expendable

Keep In mind all 4 major networks in the states have interest or are straight up owned by military contractors and the 2 biggest news sources (Reuters and AP) are owned by bankers who make money of such wars. We live in a Tyrannical-Mediacorcy, not a democracy, or a Constitutional-Republic for that matter.

edit and by Mediacrocy i mean MEDIAocrocy......

Nobody cares noob.

lol

lol what are you talking about?

I feel sorry for you if you didn't understand any of that. I'll make it simple.

-The government and TV stations like NBC (who are owned by GE whom are the people who make money of wars.)
They blame wrestling games and they don't have to blame the WarGames they need to recruit a next generation of kids for war.

the government makes a free video game every year for god sakes and gives it away for free

once again that was probably to much for you to read or handle...

.............................................................................so what you're saying it's all a conspiracy against wrestling?

You shouldn't chide anyone for not understanding what we can only assume from the recognition of words is the English language. In wading through your post, I am not sure if you think Modern Combat is itself produced by the military. It isn't. You might be thinking of America's Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_army

As far as movies go, I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you have any kind of list from the Pentagon we could see?

This kid took the fail boat to heaven :(




SERIOUSLY! Have you ever seen a wrestler for any company use a parachute for anything?