Naruto: A Deadly Weapon in Kids’ Hands
Back in January a child in Indonesia managed to strangle himself while imitating something he’d seen on Naruto. Now another child, this time in Seattle, is struggling to live for the same reason.
Apparently three kids were playing in the sandbox and they came up with the idea to bury one of them in the sand– head first. When the boy started thrashing around wildly, the kids thought he was just playing, until they eventually figured out something was wrong and found their parents. The parents administered CPR until an ambulance arrived, and the boy is apparently still in the hospital fighting to recover. The kids say it was inspired by a show on Cartoon Network.
SeattlePI.com notes that a local TV station, KOMO/TV, is citing “Naruto Sand Ninjas” [sic] as the show that inspired the act.
Obviously, Naruto should be banned for the good of humanity everywhere. And the violence is bad too. (Kidding! Please don’t kill me, Naruto fans– I hear you’re violent.)
March 10th, 2008 at 10:13 am
It’s called natural selection. Naruto is doing us all a favor by thinning out the gene pool of idiots.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:34 am
You see, in England, such things wouldn’t happen. Naruto is even more heavily censored here and sandboxes are too small for that shit…
March 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Naruto Sand Ninjas, what a great show.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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