Not a happy camper.
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All the anti-gaming activists, listen up. When people claim to “learn things” from video games, they’re not just talking about a bit of extra hand-eye coordination from first-person shooters. They’re not referring to gaining knowledge of economics from playing real-time strategies. They’re not even suggesting the improved matching skills from all those Shockwave titles with the coloured dots.They’re talking about a 12 year old Norwegian boy, who survived a moose attack - using skills he learned in World of Warcraft.Hans Jørgen Olsen and his sister were walking in the woods near their house when they were confronted by the antlered beast, who was a bit miffed at the invasion of his turf, so it attacked them. Olsen reacted quickly, with the sort of reflexes that only come after spending days in Azeroth.
His first task - protect his sister. How to do this? Taunt the beast! The boy yelled at the animal until it was distracted enough to leave his sister alone, so she could run and get help. Downside of this plan - the moose was now paying some grumpy attention to Hans. What was he to do?
Feign death. “Just like you learn at level 30 in World of Warcraft.”
I kid you not. Beast, seeing that the boy was no longer interesting, wandered off to greener pastures and to do whatever moose do in Norway. Hans jumped up and ran home to join his sister and tell the whole world about his adventures.
Now - before you criticise a 12-year old for having spent enough time ingame to get to level 30, stop and think. Had he been a lower level, he just wouldn’t have had the skillset to survive. Think about that, and maybe pop a copy of WoW on your Christmas list, if you live somewhere with an abundance of moose. - IGN
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Can I insure my legs from my pet dog?
‘Gay’ peacock tried to have sex with car
An aristocrat claims a peacock caused £4,000 damage to a blue Lexus car - by trying to have sex with it.
Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade has put in a claim to insurers to cover the damage to his employee’s car, reports the Daily Telegraph.
He has also put up warning signs at Maunsel House, in Somerset, after the “peacock blue” Lexus was scratched and dented by the amorous bird.
The incident proves the bird is gay, according to Sir Benjamin, because peahens are brown and only males are blue.
He says the male damaged the car because it looked like “another peacock boy”.
“He attacked the panels so hard that the car needs a total respray,” he said.
“The insurers, Lloyd’s of London, are not very happy about it. They’ve had claims for all sorts of things like lions biting people.
“But never have they heard of a peacock sexually attacking a car before.”
He added: “I’ve had to ban peacock blue Lexus cars from the car park.”
Sir Benjamin Slade previously attracted attention when he sent out advertisements seeking an heir for his estate so that he could live in a council house instead. - ANANOVA
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Puts new meaning to playing hide the sausage
Staff at a German butcher’s shop were shocked to discover a customer had hidden two sex toys in their sausages for transport to Dubai, police said on Wednesday.
“It was two latex dildos with a natural look,” said a spokesman for police in the southwestern city of Mannheim.
After shopping there earlier in the day, the man, who spoke broken English, returned to the butcher’s with two large “Schwartenmagen” sausages. He asked a shop assistant to wrap and cool them until he departed for Dubai the next day.
But the assistant noticed the goods had got heavier and alerted police. Officers discovered the man, who was about 50, had removed some of the meat and packed the dildos inside.
“He could have used a loaf of bread,” the spokesman said. “It’s not against the law here. But obviously I can’t speculate on what customs in Dubai will have to say about it.” - Reuters UK
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A member of Ohio’s 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy. Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit to provide fire protection for airfields under combat. “On Sunday, we were announced as the best firefighting unit in the Army National Guard in the entire country,” said Prime. “That was a bigon Wednesday moment for us.” Prime took his name from the leader of the Autobots Transformers, which were popular toys and a children’s cartoon in the 1980s. He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it’s on everything from his driver’s license, to his military ID, to his uniform. ‘”They razzed me for three months to no end,” said Prime
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A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday.
The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement and into the entrance, where it came to a halt five steps down.
Police estimated the damage to the station at around 1,500 euros (£1,000).
The VW Beetle-Cabrio remained balanced on the fifth step and the woman was able to get out unaided and unharmed.
The accident happened in the Nordstrasse underground station, in the centre of Dusseldorf.
A truck later towed the car out of the stairwell.
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Stumbled upon this in the wee hours of the morning during a rather dull FA Cup final. Who would’ve thought the British police would overreact in such a way.
When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front room, their response was swift.
Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon.
But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the “gunman” turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.
Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay.
As the source of the confusion dawned on all concerned, it might have been the moment for an apology from the police.
Instead, however, Mr Williams was taken to the cells and held for more than 13 hours before being released.
He is now on bail for a suspected firearms offence, and Lara Croft remains impounded as evidence.”
I challenge you to come up with a worse pun.
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