It's not like there isn't a war or economy crisis going on that we should be worrying about. Let's attack those evil cartoons we can't seem to hide our children from!
"The images are DISTURBING" + "The kind of neighborhood where you could leave a bicycle unattended overnight" = a distillation of everything that is historically wrong with local news. Having a dude named "Luke Doocey" don't hurt neither.
That pretty much upped the ante on this whole thing. It's like the news crew decided to outtard the kids acting out the series by showing...normal kids playing! Gasp and zounds!
The youtube comments are so awesome, because at least half of them are weeaboos chortling about how STUPID GAIJIN NEWS ANCHOR CAN'T PRONOUNCE NARUTO CORRECTLY.
I volunteer at a place in Seattle where many young kids come to play and run around screaming. After this was on the local news, at least six children told me about it in tones of awe and horror.
"Hey, there was this boy? And he was playing like something he saw on TV? And he died from sand!"
So five stars just for this newscast making my volunteer shift more amusing.
Ok so the kid saw cartoon characters UPSET about being buried in sand and that made him WANT to be buried alive? The more I hear about this story the dumber I think that kid must have been.
I don't know how much the show's been edited, but the main use of sand in Naruto is for fucking your shit up, i.e. injury or death. The cartoon pretty much told him exactly what happens when you bury your head in sand. Idiot.
They have nothing on the drunk guy who imitated Scorpion from Mortal Kombat and brained a four year old. Also thank god the Fox News them were to strung out on excremental crack to get a hold of this story. "Clearly this shows we didnt nuek enough."
Was it really that much of a privacy concern that they couldn't show the fucking sandbox? And I wasn't really clamoring to see it anyway. Why did they feel it worth mentioning? That ate up valuable seconds they could have spent shouting 'danger' keywords at us!
This is probably the best example of media sensationalism I have ever seen. Also, a 5th grader was buried under a foot of sand and died? Something tells me he was a little out of shape.
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