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by Mike Schramm 
Dec 5th 2007 at 1:30PM
A Norwegian 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.
[Via TN]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News items
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
Zegim Dec 5th 2007 2:33PM
Maybe his sister was trying to tame that moose?
Gazoo Dec 5th 2007 2:41PM
This is what happens when Misdirection is applied correctly to a member of your party.
Nick S Dec 5th 2007 3:07PM
good thing he didn't roll a warlock.
"crap, the moose must have fear ward!!!" ...and death.
Lie Dec 6th 2007 10:31AM
Let's see if feign death works on a hungry bear.
idburns Dec 5th 2007 3:08PM
All my funny comments have been used... :/
jeff Dec 5th 2007 3:18PM
I vote this for a "Caption This"
chinasky Dec 5th 2007 3:23PM
A Møøse once bit my sister ...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".
Jack Dec 5th 2007 4:17PM
I know that quote... but where is it from? I can't remember...
The sister needs to learn her aggro range though, imo.
Jasperwind Dec 5th 2007 4:51PM
It's from the opening credits of The Holy Grail.
Xeren Dec 5th 2007 3:43PM
The moose wouldn't have aggroed on them unless they attacked it first-- probably multi-shotted it by accident.
Tarbh Dec 5th 2007 5:28PM
What a huntard, seriously, the kid is a tad thick to think that tactics that learned in and apply to a videogame will be at all useful in real life. I guess when you panic, you do whatever.
Nature had 2 not-so bright creatures here, the moose and the boy, since the moose did not kill the boy, it will, at a later stage, die to a genuine threat. So we can establish that he was smarter than at least 1 moose.
Brave for peeling aggro from his sis, props for that.
Spenda Dec 5th 2007 5:57PM
It is a good thing RL doesn't work the same way as WoW. In WoW, after the feign it would have agroed right back to his sister.
Sarah Dec 22nd 2007 7:26AM
How is he thick if it *worked*? :)
Smurk Dec 5th 2007 5:38PM
Norwegians = overpowered, obviously.
TrollHunter Dec 5th 2007 5:47PM
Exaclty..OP....Nurf the Norwegians!
Lalunas Dec 5th 2007 8:56PM
I can confirm this. I am a Norwegian WoW player, and I´ve read this on several sites. But tbh, it´s just media hyping it...the boy says he got knocked down in the ground by the moose, so he just lied still on the ground, nothing else.
He even explains that he as a hunter learns the skill on level 30 ^^
And yes, according to the UN, Nrwegians pwn :o
mastgrr Dec 5th 2007 10:28PM
Umeå University! WOOOT! Umeå rocksssssssssssss
Ian Dec 5th 2007 10:25PM
thats awesome!
Dis Dec 5th 2007 11:28PM
I was thinking about this the other day, and how if I got into a fight I'd probably start thinking about in terms of WoW. Like I'd wing clip some robber and then throw rocks at him from a safe distance, while some guy tries to bite his leg off.
arkhell Dec 6th 2007 3:06AM
feign dead... pussy can't he pay the repair bills?
next time just frost trap and run away so you loose aggro ^^