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07th December 2007, 19:00

Young boy saved by WoW

Nettavisen.no has published a great story on their website about a 12 year old Norwegian boy who, thanks to his experience from a computer game, actually managed to save his own life.

The norwegian website states that Norway Hans Jørgen Olsen was spending some time with his 10 year old sister in the woods, when an enraged moose came towards them. Using experience from the well known World of Warcraft they managed to survive the attack by using a skill called "feign death". In WoW terms this is a skill you learn when hitting level 30 as a Hunter. This skill enables the hunter to avoid being killed by opposing threats by acting like he is dead. The skill became very useful for the young boy when the moose attacked his younger sister and afterwards launched an attack at him.

By taunting the enraged moose a lot of times and repeatedly getting its attention with a stick, he gave his sister a chance to escape. When the moose had focus on him, he tried to run and jump away from the moose. Eventually he was attacked in the back, but his bag took the hit. As he was laying on the ground he got kicked a few times, but survied due to the fact that the moose thought he was dead.
 
Hans explains:

"When you hit level 30, you learn a new skill called 'feign death'. Thats what I did, I lay down as if I was dead, and then the moose lost interest in me"

This is not the first nor probably last time that we will see an online game help save peoples live. Often computer games are associated to young students making scattering attacks at colleges, but this time the experience gained in games proved out to be useful in the real life.


Source: SK Gaming | Nettavisen.no (Norwegian)

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(last year)  #1 Culater
Culater
haha crazy :D
Culater ~~
(last year)  #2 erziko
erziko
ahah nice , feign death ftw
(last year)  #3 ZpReDAtor
ZpReDAtor
hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
No money in my pocket and a mind full of hate!
(last year)  #4 Ooopek
 
rotfl
next time he will use hes mega skill fast boot+4 ? rotfl
(last year)  #5 BAWarrior--
Warrior--
Very interesting haha
Nothing important...
(last year)  #6 Frozenik
Frozenik
Looool :S hahah :D
(last year)  #7 ShiNySun
 
haha, nice1! and who says that pc games dont teach? :D
(last year)  #8 Ilvy
Ilvy
Haha, smart boy :D
This place is empty
(last year)  #9 ShiaoPi
ShiaoPi
loooool nice one xD
(last year)  #10 xani
xani
ahahahaha great one, gg boy
(last year)  #11 caZ-
caZ-
~~
Good Day, Good Sir
(last year)  #12 mysassyelf
mysassyelf
micro at its finest...
friends may come and go, enemies accumulate... gg
(last year)  #13 d3m0nicl3m0n
 
wtf moose dont attack people ><
i wonder what he did to proke it.. something else learned from wow?
(last year)  #14 Styl3r
 
:)

Smart boy or Good PR ? I wouldn't be surprised if it would be second.. :)
(last year)  #15 RAAMZES
 
He should blink away :)
(last year)  #16 myCAi
myCAi
n1!
Strength lies not in defense but in attack!
(last year)  #17 warheart
 
Quoting RAAMZES:

He should blink away :)

Why blinking away when you can use deathcoil and own them all???
(last year)  #18 manhunter321
manhunter321
very smart
you will know and recognise me after somtime
(last year)  #19 Getz.tOxzj
tOxzj
wtf? :D
fly To style Of XZJ
(last year)  #20 bandhelix
bandhelix
He shouldn't have pulled aggro in the first place =P....

Remember kids Feign Death acn sometimes be resisted lol
(last year)  #21 K.Zm1ka
 
when moose attack me i'll do the same...xd
(last year)  #22 raxhe
 
hahaha
Most aimer of my city, the legend, my legend ;)
(last year)  #23 Play_iT-Irvine
Play_iT-Irvine
JUUAZZZZ Rofl. Crazy crazy...............
Diego Irvine
(last year)  #24 JashiNeXe
JashiNeXe
Well not to diminish WoW educational influence but i am fairly sure there is a parable in aesop's fables that teaches the same thing....
I am just glad he didn't try kiting it :) Glad the kid survived and saved his sister who says gamers are cowards in rl :D
(last year)  #25 GKoOJustLittlestar-
JustLittlestar-
rofl
We are 4Kings
(last year)  #26 brkr
brkr
wow feign death should of just use tame beast LoL jk , man what a smart kid
Hurry were wasting time!!!!!

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