Norwegian Boy saves Sister from Moose Attack using World of Warcraft Skills
Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he picked up playing the online role playing game World of Warcraft.
Hans and his sister got into trouble after they had trespassed the territory of the moose during a walk in the forest near their home. When the moose attacked them, Hans knew the first thing he had to do was ‘taunt’ and provoke the animal so that it would leave his sister alone and she could run to safety. ‘Taunting’ is a move one uses in World of Warcraft to get monsters off of the less-well-armored team members.
Once Hans was a target, he remembered another skill he had picked up at level 30 in ‘World of Warcraft’ – he feigned death. The moose lost interest in the inanimate boy and wandered off into the woods. When he was safely alone Hans ran back home to share his tale of video game-inspired survival.
Via Nettavisen.no.
I would have used backstab and eviscerate.
I just hope he doesn’t get into any PvP anytime soon.
I thought him and his sister both would have been Rogues and she just stun locked the bitch while he just spammed Ambush.
Good that WoW teaches such things, though I wonder if he’d prepared for the consequences had his skill attempt failed for whatever reason. Doing such things on a server has a much lower fail penalty in real life…
That said, kudos to the kid for his resourcefulness and bravery. Presence of mind ++
That article you’re siting in nettavisen is almost 3 years old.
I would’ve Bubbled and Hearthstoned
old article is old.
/cast fear
o great. . .cool. .
@norwegian @morkuma Does it have to be news to be a good example of NextNature?
this is not good for evolution, suddenly wow gamers will survive!
if he was an american boy he would be carring his firearm and could shot the animal to the death… and then he could do his business with his sister: to go to the nearest school and shoot his friends to death.
my new hero!
Sensacional srsrrs
I wonder what was the loot.
Wait till he hits 80, dawg
@Mr California: You are an idiot.
Anyways, that was a nice little article. Too bad he couldn’t just bubblehearth.
Uh huh.
Yeah, WoW will save us from wild animal attacks.
Go back to your damn basements.
Good thing he was not playing The Sims… Wonder what he would have picked up.
lol
nice story..
@troy @Andrew I say stun lock ‘em! Throw in some Slice ‘n Dice and a Glyph of SS for maximum DPS! Skin the beast and make some heavy leather and pelts into armor!
real survival skills in animal world
so, real – virual – real
If this kid was a real gamer he would have known not to get withing the mooses aggro range in the first place. n00b mistake.
He didnt use taunt, he used fake death
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Magic missile into the darkness!
a m00se bit my sister once
Kid just went full huntard.
Huntards can’t taunt. Warrs cant feign death, and you sir, cannot multi-class in wow.
He was fortunate then that he didn’t play a rogue, lol… just imagine the guy trying to vanish and backstab the moose.
Impressive done by the little bloke. He used the RL tricks from WoW, that actually works.
If he had tried to misdirect, or scare beast, it probably wouldnt have worked.
got lucky. If the moose didn’t fall for the “feint death” move, it wouldn’t have been feinting for long
This is exactly what hunters do. They do out and agro a super-powerful mob, kite it back to the party, the feign death.
Uncanny
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
the is the most retarded shit ive ever heard this is a written by a fucking second grader
WoW…… … .. ..lol
I would have used sit in front of computer and play warcraft. No moose here.
what a noob.. we all know he should have just feared the moose and then lol’d @ it.
Smart, clever and brave boy…. Congratulations. You did what you have to do without fears.
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lol @ All Comments.
Oh well he cant be horde he didnt get bloodlust must be Alliance.
LOL … good to know all the time I have wasted playing that game might come in handy someday.
Cool the guy saved bambi from gettin killed by his crack ass sister.
I don’t believe it scene when can hunter taunt, unless it was distracting shot this it makes sence.
hmmmmmmm good jop kid
but remember games not every thing
Clocks ahoy!
Damn, that’s lucky, seeing Feign Death has a 8% miss chance
Good thing he doesnt play a mage, this whole situation wouldve turned out quite differently. Frost Nova! Invisibility! Ice Block!
He could just have tamed the best! GOD!
tho if he wasnt BM he would get pwnd!
Feigning death also works at staff meetings. Taunting, not so much. (I’m usually the target.)
Fear is better than using taunt and feigned death, but I guess he had a hunter
DK rulez