Boy attacked by moose "feigns death," thanks WoW

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]

Tags: feign-death, level-30, moose, news, norway, taunt, unreliable

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News items

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

Zumwalah Dec 5th 2007 1:45PM

[quote]Now if only he'd been able to control his DPS in the first place, he'd never have aggroed at all.[/quote]

maybe his nub sister body pulled?

Lossius Dec 10th 2007 9:29AM

Nettavisen is one of the serious papers in Norway, and the story says more or less the same in the Norwegian versions I've read.

The kid is a hack though, he's far from lvl 30 and already knows feign death. Riiiiight! HACK!

hoeding Dec 5th 2007 1:47PM

Personally, I would have let my sister tank it.

Thanurge Dec 5th 2007 1:51PM

He should have Frost Shocked it instead...

Amalah Dec 6th 2007 4:30PM

Guessing moose have high frost resist..

Keiji Dec 5th 2007 1:52PM

Elite? I'd solo it ;D

Wtf? Dec 10th 2007 11:17AM

Did this happen for real or what cuz lots of ppl r saying he was an elite or may have frost resist? wtf wad this in real life or in wow?

Gustav Dec 5th 2007 1:54PM

Not being Norwegian, I wouldn't know if the paper is trustworth or not, but from surfing around on it for a bit, it seems to be fairly alright. I hardly doubt that the paper made the story up, if you put it that way. Oh, and if anyone is wondering how I can know that from not being Norwegian, I'm Swedish, so I understand enough Norwegian to be able to read it...

ThorinII Dec 5th 2007 1:56PM

The n00b sister should never have gotten that close to the (obviously) much higher lvl Moose in the first place. I would have let her die and spirit run back.

Oh, wait, RL, yeah, good job kid!

nativebrown Dec 5th 2007 1:56PM

lol

Rich Dec 5th 2007 1:59PM

Hunters don't have taunt!!!!! Yet anyway... :(

If he was a good hunter he would have let the moose kill his sister, then feign death as it came for him. When it dropped aggro, hop up and use Jumper Cables on her.

deltreme Dec 6th 2007 8:58AM

Distracting shot or something :P Doubt he had a bow on him :)

I bet he turned off his sister's Growl and got aggro that way. Or he didn't feed her properly.

Wolfkin Dec 5th 2007 2:03PM

I would've spammed Wing Clip and kited the moose to Ironforge....

Hellbena Dec 5th 2007 2:04PM

Obviously someone's never heard of Distracting Shot.

Paw Dec 5th 2007 2:06PM

Yeah, but what the story doesn't say is that when the kid got up to run away he was jumped by 4 crag boars his sister also aggroed when she thought she saw a peacebloom on her minimap. He made a daring run for town where he thought he would find aid from one of the guards but ended up at the camp by the lake where the locals just stared at him while he was being mauled.

dsimon Dec 5th 2007 2:10PM

MWAHAHA I AM THE MOOSE

gg Dec 5th 2007 2:13PM

Great, now blizzard can bullshit about that their shit game saved life on someone.. -.-

Mats Dec 5th 2007 2:15PM

Well, being from Norway. Nettavisen is the largest Online Newspaper (Only online that is, some paper newspapers online sites are bigger) that we have. It's run by the biggest commercial media organization in Norway (TV2 Gruppen) so this is 100% legit.