Boy Saves Sister From Moose Using WoW Skills
PC gaming gives you skillz in the real world even if it means you have a chain-smoker body.
Who said PC games weren't educational? A Norwegian boy recently reaped in the benefits of spending countless hours behind the LCD screen by surviving a moose attack thanks to the help of World of Warcraft.
Twelve-year-old Hans Jørgen Olsen and his sister went out into the forest near their home to take a brisk walk. Details are scarce, however they unintentionally wandered into moose territory. An alarmed moose came charging towards the two young trespassers upon their arrival.
Despite the threat, Hans knew exactly what to do.
Thanks to his numerous encounters in Blizzard's MMORPG, his first reaction was to "taunt" the moose so that it would ignore his younger sister. With its focus shifting to the boy, the sister was able to flee and head for safety.
In the PC game, taunting is the ability to draw the attention of the attacking beast away from the lower-level and less-armored party members. Apparently it works on real-world beasts too.
After the girl escaped, Hans initiated another World of Warcraft tactic he learned at level 30: feigning his death. Dropping to the ground and remaining inanimate, he waited for the moose to sniff him out and lose interest.
Eventually the beast wandered off into the woods, leaving the boy unscathed--he's lucky the moose didn't trample him into a fleshy rug. Hans said that he got up and ran back home to report what happened.
The amount of experience points given for the encounter is currently unknown.
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should've used lightning bolt
So in near future, survival experts are going to teach you skillz whilest doing dailies ?
+1 to Kevin for his writing on this story. It was amusing.
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".
must not have been a male moose. things would not have gone so smoothly. props to the kid for keeping a level head in that situation!
this is awesome
Ummm isn't it called 'aggro'ing and not taunting? Pssshh...
HAH. Take that you stupid "Video Games are Bad" activists.
The kid needs to be nerfed. He's overpowered. Taunt AND Feign Death? NERF!
I'm pretty sure you guys already reported this over a year ago...
Hans Jørgen Olsen is so OP. Nerf him!
lol
In the U.S., we would have used skills learned in MLB 2K10 and hit the damn thing with a baseball bat.
Lol cool, good thing they didn't run immediately.
This just in.......
Its turns out that Hans was able to survive the encounter because he was hacking.....
In the U.S., we would have used skills learned in MLB 2K10 and hit the damn thing with a baseball bat.
Either that or spill oil all over it until it died.
He's level 12 and he's using a level 30 skill? I call hacks.
I think the amazing part of this news blurb is that a WoW player was actually outside. Just... wow!
Dude - I don't care what level those kids were - if you wipe to a moose, you need to quit and go back to Everquest.
Must be a slow news day. Any survival expert will tell you that these approaches are not new, nor rooted in MMORPG's. They are part of general survival tactics.
Still, props for the entertaining read.
This is a cool story, however i read it months ago on another site.
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".
LOL! +1
People must not know where this comes from if they are marking it down.
wow, smart kid!
I don't think we can credit WoW for this anymore then we can credit other games for violent acts.
Either that or spill oil all over it until it died.
because BP is an American company.... oh wait...
I think it's more amazing that the WoW player left his house.
Wow, that kid is lucky. What if these WoW tactics were not real, he would have been killed so fast.
Gain agro, kite and exploit terrain hack so Moose can't reach you.
He's level 12 and he's using a level 30 skill? I call hacks.
I lol'd +1
Ummm isn't it called 'aggro'ing and not taunting? Pssshh...
Actually, the girl already had aggro. He just taunted it off her. He's lucky the moose didn't resisted the feign death. He would have given him a couple of crushing blows.
mass fails. He should have rooted the moose, then got distance and dotted the moose till he died. Might have gotten an epic drop.
lmao awesome story..i always felt like my gaming skills have helped me in some crazy situations