Elonka wrote:

Makers of "World of Warcraft" - Blizzard Entertainment, are being sued by the parents of a 13-year-old Tianjin boy, on charges that the game caused the death of their son.

The parents have filed a law-suit against Blizzard Entertainment, alleging that their son jumped to his death while re-enacting a scene from "World of Warcraft".

Anti-Internet addiction advocate, Zhang Chunliang, is backing the parents of the deceased boy. Chunliang is said to have spoken to 63 parents, whose children have suffered due to online gaming addiction. The advocate plans to file a class-action suit in the matter. There have been no comments from Blizzard Entertainment so far.

China's online gaming market, which raked in $580 million this year, is believed to be the fastest-growing market in the world.

Blizzard Entertainment's "World of Warcraft" alone is estimated to have around 1.5 million paying players, bringing-in moolah to the tune of $30 million per month in subscription fees.

Vivendi Universal Games, parent company of Blizzard Entertainment, which has pegged the "World of Warcraft" global players count at 4.5 million, is now forced to contend with the back-lash of parents concerned with their children's addictive behavior.

Oh this is just stupid now. Who in their right mind would jump off anything and assume they will be fine because they could do it in a game? I would like to know more details on this as to what the exact scene was he was re-enacting.

RE: Parents of dead teenager sue Blizzard over 'Worlds of Warcraft'

From - Sat Nov 05 02:50:29 2005
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Mr. Boivin dropped 10 barrels of cheese into the Saguenay last fall after a fisherman reported reeling in a piece of Boivin cheese from a lake bottom and trying it. It was pronounced the best cheese he'd ever tasted.

Undeterred by the apparent failure of this year's underwater cheese experiment, Mr. Boivin is trying again. He still believes that underwater pressure will enhance the taste of an aged cheddar. So within the next few weeks, he will drop another charge of cheese in a stainless steel, submarine-type vessel into the Baie des Ha! Ha! But this time, he's taking no chances. The cheddar will be outfitted with a tracking device.

The Globe and Mail: Sunken cheddar defeats divers

MIAMI - Alligators have clashed with nonnative pythons before in Everglades National Park. But when a 6-foot gator tangled with a 13-foot python recently, the result wasn't pretty.

The snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole — and then exploded. Scientists stumbled upon the gory remains last week.

Python Explodes After Eating Alligator - Yahoo! News

A delivery truck lost a pallet of paint outside a shop on Friday morning after a lifting belt broke, and 440 liters (116 gallons) of white paint ran into the Oslo river.

Looks kinda like milk.

Norwegian news in English, Aker river runs white

Witnesses said the man was allegedly driving the vehicle drunk with the child on board.

After the crash, several neighbors held the man and then beat him until police arrived.

The man was transported to the Seminole County Jail.

It is not known if any of the neighbors involved in the beating will be charged.

The child was not injured in the crash.

Neighbors Beat Man After Wild ATV Ride With Child

On his WCKG-FM (105.9) afternoon show Tuesday, he mused about creating a drink inspired by reports of "floating corpses" in New Orleans. And on his Web log Wednesday, he elaborated.

Wow, that's pretty harsh.

Steve Dahl serves up recipe with foul taste

Miller has one very bold idea: He wants to build a new town where there is none, a community that would be carved out of the farm fields and draw hundreds of people from across the nation ... maybe even the world.

What would set this town apart is it would be home to deaf and hard-of-hearing people who want to live together. They'd raise their families here, send their kids to school and share a common language: sign language.

A town for the deaf? | The San Diego Union-Tribune

Stare at the crosshairs in the centre of this picture. After a short while you'll notice that there is a green dot revolving around, replacing each purple dot in turn. Then if you keep staring the purple dots disappear, and all that remains is a circling green dot.

But it's all an illusion - there's no green dot and the purple dots never actually disappear.

Interesting effect.

Optical Illusion

Mayor Siegfried Hauppl has asked visitors to lay off the signs which began to attract outside attention after British and US soldiers passing through in 1945 illuminated the locals as to the English meaning of Fucking, Ananova reports.

Hauppl explained: "We had a vote last year on whether to rename the town, but decided to keep it as it is. After all, Fucking has existed for 800 years, probably when a Mr Fuck or the Fuck family moved into the area. The 'ing' was added as a word for settlement."

We reckon that Fucking has been around a lot longer than 800 years, otherwise there wouldn't have been any Fucks to lend their name to the village in the first place, would there?

Cummings GA, Fucking Austria.

There's a village in Austria...