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Posted: 9 months ago by Maven:
I watched far worse things happen in cartoons. I never felt compelled in recreating anything Wiley Coyote tried. Sorry, I think this is tragic, but not the fault of the show.
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Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames:
You can not blame the television show. that is a cop out, but what they hey I suppose it gives the parents a chance to blame someone which is what they need in their time of grief
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Posted: 9 months ago by larknet:
If the girl was in her room, unattended, and they found her later, how do they know she was trying to imitate the show? I agree with 2many, this is a cop out trying to shift the blame elsewhere.
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Posted: 9 months ago by bevissimo:
You can and you can't. A kid that age is a monkey, they'll try to copy anything they see that's cool.
I had a cousin who ripped out his teeth by trying to swing from a rope by them, like he saw in a Tarzan movie.
It's a tragedy, but kids will try what they think they can. Believe me, I wanted to see what would happen if I were folded up in a chaise lounge lawn chair and almost died of strangulation - I would have had the babysitter not heard me struggling.
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Posted: 9 months ago by craziesean:
I know it's not the cartoons fault. My kids(both boys) are gonna hurt themselves no matter what they watch. Heck, I spent many a day and night at urgent care or the emergency room for being a dumb kid. on the positive my kids could count to 10 in spanish before they could in english because of that show.
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Posted: 9 months ago by DerAlt1:
Yep, most kids understand that what they see in the movies, on TV and in video games is fantasy.
However, I really don't understand the rush to defend these pastimes with a total denial that there are some mentalities that do not have that understanding or suffer a diminishment of it.
With all the quirks that "normal" brains have, how difficult is it to realize that some people take this stuff more seriously. It's the knee jerk denial of the possibility of being influenced that I'm addressing.
There are certainly obvious examples of the harmless among us that seem to attend the school of the unusual with their Star Trek cults etc.
Some of those folk don't seem to totally grasp reality either.
I'm not talking about banning anything. Just an intelligent evaluation of cause and effect.
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Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames:
Oh, I am not saying that the cartoon might have been a factor. I am not saying that there are "no mentalities that do not have the understanding or diminishment of it."
I am merely saying that you can't blame the cartoon. The cartoon, book, television, movie, whatever is not the root cause of these incidences. It may be that the victim has a brain quirk.
It may even be a normal kid playing a normal game that sadly died playing it.
Most of us as kids played games that were in hindsight rather dangerous. Heck just climbing a tree can be dangerous. Whether we climbed the tree because of the media or just because it was there doesn't matter.
Personally, though we seem to have children dieing from imitating something in the media, when are we going to have some kid clean the house, bake a cake, knit a doily, etc from imitating something seen on television? :)
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Posted: 9 months ago by Maven:
I guess the reason I have a problem with identifying the show as a 'cause' is because we live in a world where knee-jerk reactionaries cater to the minority by 'protecting' us and forcing labels and warnings and such, ad-nauseum. One dingbat scalds herself with hot coffee, so now every one must plaster their products with warnings.
Sure, people are different. Some will be more easily influenced by TV than others. But don't blame the SHOW when the kid does something dumb. The parents have to suck it up and admit that they should have used that little On/Off switch on the remote.
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Posted: 9 months ago by willster09:
I say let's break out a round of Halo 3 and let all of our kids play. LOL Damn, every one is quick to point a finger at what they think the problem is, but what the real problem is- Is that people(Parents) don't stop to take the time to explain to there kids that what they see on TV and video games is NOT REAL. That there are repercussions for their actions. I tell my kids that if they stick metal objects in the outlets that it will KILL them,that they will no longer be here. Do you think they stick stuff in outlets? So go ahead and put on the PBS channel and walk out the room and ignore your kids some more. good job.
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Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames:
DerAlt,
another possible reason for the rush to defend these pastimes on this particular story is craziesean's comment:
My kids watch go, Diego, go! Not any more.
As you said, you are not advocating the banning of anything, craziesean's comment about banning the cartoon in his household makes it sound as if the cartoon is the sole cause of the tragedy and that he fears it happening to his children.
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Posted: 9 months ago by davbob:
When I was a kid I complained that when I was getting some shot or other at the doctors that the hypodermic had "hit one of my wires" a la 6 million dollar man. I also ran everywhere slowly making sound effects. I could have been killed doing half the stuff I did but I wasn't. My dad knocked out his two front teeth pretending to be Alan Quartermain while playing King Solomons mines when he was young. My grandfather once broke his arm playing Treasure Island which he had just READ. Now you could say that we were all lucky but we weren't we were all just being kids doing what kids do. This girl on the otherhand was very unlucky. Nothing her parents could have done would have prevented this tragedy. They could have banned her from watching any TV and taken all her toys out of her room and basically made her live in a bubble but that would not be living, only exsisting.
It's a terrible tragedy but unfortunatly accidents happen, blame can be thrown about everywhere but I for one believe that there is no blame in this and many other instances.
Score: [-] 115 [+].
Posted: 9 months ago by Maven:
« willster09 I tell my kids that if they stick metal objects in the outlets that it will KILL them,that they will no longer be here. Do you think they stick stuff in outlets? I did. My Mom was watching. She'd told me not to stick anything in the outlets. I took a bobby pin, removed the plastic tips, bent it into the plug shape, and put it in the outlet. Mom was on the phone, providing a play-by-play of the entire event to one of her friends. When I got shocked, she leaned into my room and said "See? I told you not to do that. Now do you understand why?"
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Posted: 9 months ago by beckinacea:
Have you seen Short Circuit 2? I wanted to swing on a crane like he did at the end when he catches the bad guy in the boat. Good thing I didn't.
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Posted: 9 months ago by craziesean:
In my defense, please dont me wrong, I'm not placing blame. that comment was ment more as a "rib" than anything. I think one of the major determining factors in this is teaching your kids right from worng early on so they make correct decisions. Kids will make mistakes, heck, we all did at one time, and still do. but a good base of right/wrong and good/bad thinking goes along way.
Score: [-] 128 [+].
Posted: 9 months ago by donteatpoop:
While leaving the child completely unattended is the real problem here; maybe the animators should re-evaluate the whole "swing down a zipline by a harness that goes around your neck" idea.
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Posted: 9 months ago by davbob:
« donteatpoop : While leaving the child completely unattended is the real problem here; maybe the animators should re-evaluate the whole "swing down a zipline by a harness that goes around your neck" idea.
Not exactly round the neck.
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Posted: 9 months ago by donteatpoop:
« davbob :
Not exactly round the neck. Ah, I see. Good point.
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Posted: 9 months ago by eljay:
That is very sad. I stuck a bobby pin in the socket, I played bionic woman and wonder woman, I was also Jeannie. I played Dorothy. I broke both my arms both bones at the same time while roller skating. I broke my leg while riding my bike. I lost my two front teeth(prematurely) by sticking a close line under them--yes I did! Kids are fearless. This little girl was indeed fearless. It is a horrible thing has happened. I can't imagine their grief.
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Posted: 9 months ago by direwookiee:
« donteatpoop : While leaving the child completely unattended is the real problem here; maybe the animators should re-evaluate the whole "swing down a zipline by a harness that goes around your neck" idea. That's what I was trying to figure out...I had a very bizarre image of Diego flying down a mountain by his neck. It looked like something out of a horror movie
« davbob :
Not exactly round the neck. Ah, Gotcha. Neeever mind. How ever, points off for the little girl...I made little harnesses like that all the time. I was too fat for anything to support me, but hey, I tried.
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