@Blind assassin

FYI, I was the first to open up this article when Jim posted it. I could make first comment and be a scumbag about it, but I just didn't care. I don't laugh at the poor kid's death. I laugh at these paladin fuckers, I laugh at faking and insincerity, their stupidity and reactions. It's so easy to see through such lies.And I don't have problems with meaningless condolences, I have problem with fake condolences.

@ALL INTERNET HOLY WARRIORS

I got another for you:

You guys are assholes. I mean, I know that HURR THIS IS THE INTERNET HURR, but if you were this kid's parents, you'd have lost all hope for humanity right now.

@ ElfShotTheFood

Oh man, I laughed hard. I'm so going to hell.

I feel terrible for his parents. But I still think the kid was a selfish dickhead.

While this is of course horrible, and my sympathies goes out to the parents, I can't help but laugh at some these jokes.

Did a grenade go off when they found the body?

I understand those who wish to keep death a serious and solemn event, but for me (and probably many others here), humor is humor, and you can't help that.

When Heath Ledger died, I tried my best not to make any sort of joke about it. As an actor, I respected him greatly, and his death at such a young age, along with a daughter, made it even more sad. I eventually cracked, making some remark.

My point is, try to be understanding, whichever way you choose to look at death.

Wow.
This is probably one of the stupidest arguments I've seen here.
Look, I don't think anybody's shedding tears here. The simple fact of the matter is that somebody died and it's sad, period. Granted, it doesn't personally affect us, so we're not bawling our eyes out or anything, but there's nothing wrong with showing a little empathy.

this is really sad, I wish we had more details. Im sure we will know more in the day to come. Its stupid all we know right now is this: "Young gamer runs away after his parents took away his video games and turns up dead"
this really sucks !

@Blind Assassin, not once did I say I was offended by their statements, but faking grief, that's just pathetic. I stop reading after your first sentence as it had no truth in it whatsoever.

@Vexed Alex, I'm an insensitive prick, thanks. Go be subjective somewhere else.

Sure, kids do stupid things, we all do it, it's just child instincts, but If I were to die, and someone where to insult my family..

A) Would They know? If not, it wouldn't bother them at all.

B) They would know better than to care what anyone else says.

C) Lucky I wasn't killed? Or smarter than the average Joe to not run away due to a game being banned from my use. The kid obviously had issues and should have been dealt with before-hand.

Also, at this stage of my life, I plan not to have children.

By the way, not once did I ever make fun of the child.So don't accuse me of false doings.

My condolences to the family.

And on a lighter note..

This looks like a job for David Caruso. *puts his sunglasses on and a car explodes*

the kid was murdered most likely.

unless he committed suicide.

or death by canadian bear.

but theres no murders in canada.

Fox News drama, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we gooooo!~

Guess he didn't have last stand or martyrdom. Tango down in section one-alpha!

Here's an update: No foul play suspected. So he ran away from home over a video game, and then managed to just sort of die in rural Ontario. Have we entered Darwin awards territory yet?

So we all agree then;

Canada Sucks.

I live in Barrie. My house is less than 10km's from where they found his body. His parent's house is about 2 block away from mine. So yes, I'm familiar with this story.

Chances are, he tried to have a go at camping in the woods just outside of town. We had a few cold nights between now and Oct 13, and he probably froze to death in his sleep.

Aside from that - I can't believe some of the comments here. You people are fucking retarded. A boy is dead. The last time his parents saw him, it was a huge fight on Thanksgiving, a holiday for families. How do you think they feel? How do you think this community feels right now? Thousands of strangers have been searching for this kid for a month now, and now they find his body, and people are cracking jokes? I'm ashamed to count myself as a member of this community right now.

If you think you have a right to crack wise regarding this situation - fuck off and die in a fire.

Pew wins.

As much I feel bad for his parents and they got my sympathy, but does this poor boys death also show how materialistic we have gotten and how much a inanimate object can actually mean to people?

A tragic story.

@ Scrixx

You know what? I'm gonna respond to you without reading a single thing you say either.

Stop calling me a gypsy. I'm a freaking English-Canadian. By virtue of that fact, I'm also not your father. You might admire me but you have to find someone else to be your dad.

I live in Canada, it's pretty awesome eh!

@scrixx

"The kid is a brat. His parents are idiotic. It was bound to happen."

Classless = Check
Idiotic = Check

Based on youre original statement, the above points arent accusations. They are fact. Unless youre friends of the family and youve got some insight the rest of us arent aware of.

Okay, I only read the first page of comments, and skimmed the second. There's a couple of ways to look at this, and truth be told, we don't necessarily have all the information at this time. Regardless, here are my thoughts . . .

Okay, first things first, a kid is dead. While that makes me "sad," I'm not particularly surprised/shocked/remorseful or anything. Now with that said, on one hand, I do believe in Darwinism and such to a certain extent, and he did somewhat have it coming to him. On the other, it's a very unfortunate accident. If he was murdered, I would feel a bit more "sad," but once again, this was for the most part, his own doing.

Now, we can play the blame game, and start pointing fingers, like the parents should've just let him play, or they shouldn't have encouraged him to leave and call his bluff, etc. There is a certainty though, that there has to be a line drawn on reason. Now the kid leaves home and is super pissed and all, so that's reasonable, but if he doesn't have enough sense to realize at some point he's been irrational or in overhead his head, then he's a tard, and "deserved" what happened. Same with the parents, and how much "effort" they put in to discipline/stop/educate him in general.

Now, there can be all the "sympathy" and such, and we're dealing with something that was brought to our attention in a form of media with which we relate to. Do I feel sympathy or such for the kid or the parents? On a VERY minute level. This is mainly due to the fact that there were an enormous number of ways to prevent this. Okay, I didn't know the kid or the parents personally, but there has be some sort of moral reasoning and such that has to be brought into account.

Now, we all know, people will die and it happens all the time, etc. But, how a number of people are trying to be all protective and such of the situation and saying how you should be sad and that if you aren't you're an asshole, etc. is just plain ridiculous. This kid had a chocie. I think it's somewhat for the most part agreed on, he made the wrong one. Let's take into account those who DO NOT have a choice, like the genocide victims in Tibet, the child slavery in Africa, etc. There's rarely any sorrow or attention paid to those who die in those situations, at least in the form of media the majority of us here at Destructoid look into.

It's late and I'm thinking I'm losing my train of thought, but regardless, while some may find it "distasteful/classless/etc." for people poking fun at this, there has to be a fine line of which certain things must be accepted. So once again, I'm "sad" that a kid is dead, and I do feel for the parents as they'll unfortunately have to live without their child any more, but do I feel remorseful, or surprised, or think people should really be "caring" so much about this . . . no . . . not at all.

Hopefully I didn't screw up this post, but hopefully people will respect one another's opinion on this board, and stop personal attacks and try to have a lively dicussion.

For once, I can't be blamed for baiting any of this. That's the amazing part.

Some of you people are right dickheads, this is the problem with the internet.

I'm with Mxy btw, whilst a tragic story I can't help but think about what a knob the kid was being. Didn't deserve this, mind.