A 10-year-old in Washington died when playmates buried him headfirst in a backyard sandbox after the group watched a cartoon involving a character using sand as a weapon.
Officials said Codey Porter died Monday after he was buried in the sandbox over the weekend.
The fifth-grader's brother, Joshua Quantrille, said the children had just finished watching a TV show called "Naruto," that featured one of the characters using a backpack full of sand, sometimes burying people in it.
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Some questions:
-What do you think was the root cause of this death?
-Should the makers of the cartoon be held liable for this situation?
-What should happen to the boys involved in the incident?
-Did Wild E. Coyote and the Road Runner promote violence? Did children act on it?
3 comments:
-What do you think was the root cause of this death?
- Um, lack of oxygen?
-Should the makers of the cartoon be held liable for this situation?
- Just like the makers of chairs should be when people are beaten to death with them.
-What should happen to the boys involved in the incident?
- You mean something more?!
-Did Wild E. Coyote and the Road Runner promote violence?
- I remember dropping anvils on my brother, pushing him in front of oncoming traffic and other cool cartoon things. He's fine. ;)
Did children act on it?
- I remember dropping anvils... :p
Such the literalist :)
j razz
I tend to think like Roland on this. It seems as if there are warning labels for everything. It seems to me that by ten years of age they should know better.
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