In an example of teenagers taking just about everything on earth much more seriously than necessary, thirteen-year-old Jake Roberts made a fatal choice to take his own life after an argument with his father and sister. The reason? Jake wanted to play his brand new Wii, acquired with his birthday money (his birthday had been a few days prior). He then retreated to his room, where he was found hanged by his own school uniform tie a few hours later.
His father commented on the incident:
The first thing I saw when I walked in to Jake's bedroom was all the paper he had ripped up on the floor during his tantrum.
The door was open with his bed to my left behind the door. I was going to tell him off when I turned. It took me a few seconds to register what I was seeing.
His school tie was round his neck and he was hung from his cabin bed. I tried to lift him and his tie was attached to a bar on the bed.
If someone casually told me that a kid killed himself because he couldn't play the Wii, I might laugh, because it sounds like a joke. Reading the real details, however, I find my laughs have pretty much dried up. I don't think it has a thing to do with the Wii itself, but I have no doubt tragedies like this will only provide more ammo for anti-games activists.
[Via Daily Mail -- Thanks, Jonathan]
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11:35 AM on 06.26.2008
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That's terrible.
if you kill yourself over something material and trivial as a game then you deserve to die as you're a waste on earth.
i lol'd
Talk about overreacting o_O
what I think is messed up is that he killed himself over something so small of a matter.
>_<
Poor family. My heart goes out to em.
Also, please stop with the tasteless comments.
for next to nothing.
that just sucks.
Of all the things you can do, that has to top my list of the worst possible things to your parents.
I think it's fucked up when minors kill themselves over an ended relationship. This is something else...
Killing himself over having to wait a few hours to play the Wii. That's even more fucked up than, say, killing yourself over having to be away from your girlfriend for a few hours.
There could come a good South Park episode from this mess? Yeah. I went there...
Just ignore him, "Bruceleethree" is probably all of about 11 years old.
I have no remorse for this kid. What he did was so selfish to his family. And no I'm not coping the 'suicide is so selfish' thing here. I'm talking about how ridiculously irrational he was to a compromised situation with the people who basically did everything they could to keep him from being killed or dying, etc.
Bravo you dumb fuck. Snot nosed brat...
I wonder what the tv show was...even more so, would his sister have done that if she couldn't watch tv? Now you see how ridiculous this kid is?
And to everyone saying he had it coming: we ALL have it coming in some form or another. We're flawed HU-MAN-BE-INGS. Try some love for once, if you can.
It's not the poor kid's fault: it's the parents' for raising him to be a fucked up, spoiled ingrate.
Just like with the Violent Videogames debate, the moral of the story is 'don't suck at raising your kids.'
But seriously, this kid seemed like he was in a very fragile mental state and this event would have happened either way. Sigh, parents really should pay more attention to their children.
But I won't lie, I lol'd.
On the other hand, I feel for his family. What an awful thing to go through
I didn't realise the Wii had any games worth that much fury.
It does sound really ridiculous that any kid would behave like that.
but good about the kid. people that fucking stupid shouldnt be amongst the living anyway.