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Boy attacked by moose "feigns death," thanks WoW

Posted Dec 5th 2007 1:30PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News items

A Norweigian news site is reporting that a young boy and his sister were attacked by a moose (same thing happened to my sister once), and the boy reportedly "taunted' the moose away from his sister, and then feigned death, causing the moose to lose aggro and leave. "Just like you learn in level 30 in World of Warcraft," the boy is reportedly quoted as saying.

Cynic that I am, I find it hard believing any of this is true at all-- maybe one of our Norwegian readers (and I know we have them, because I met two at BlizzCon) can let us know whether "Nettavisen" is to be trusted as a source or not. But even if it is true, I'm just as hesitant to jump to praise WoW for supposedly helping as I am to condemn it for supposedly hurting.

Still, I'm glad the kid came out of it OK, and if WoW is to thank, all the better. Now if only he'd been able to control his DPS in the first place, he'd never have aggroed at all.

Lol, nice. I really want to know if his actual thoughts at the time were "I need to raise it's aggro and then feign"

Ever since Super Mario I have tried smashing bricks with my head to get coins and that never worked.

Apparently, you're not smashing the floating bricks. 

If it were in America.. the kid would have shot the moose in the head and taunted it with racial slurs while wearing a headset. I can see the news headline now, "BOOM Headshot!"

 And then humped the corpse. In American we do things right!

lol, that's hilarious.

why didn't he just vanish? he seemed like a rogue..
also his sister could have just healed him while the boy was dpsing the moose

i don't see the problem

lol. He couldve just used divine intervention as well, and pwned tht mooses ass with his Hammer of Justice!