• Game Over (Almost): Distracted Ten-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform
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[url=http://kotaku.com/5751214/distracted-ten+year+old-games-himself-off-a-railway-platform]Source[/url] [release][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWDNT1bQhSA[/media] A ten-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. Technology may truly be the downfall of man, or at least this small boy and that [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPpzj4PjNjU]woman that fell into the fountain[/url]. While 23-year-old off-duty police officer Alessandro Micalizzi was on hand to rescue this distracted youngster after he fell off the tracks at the Loreto station in Milan, Italy, this video could very well have had a very unhappy ending. Micalizzi explains how things went down. [quote]'He was with his mother and sister, and before he fell I saw them out of the corner of my eye and he was completely lost in his game and wasn't looking where he was going. I just had a few seconds because he had got off a train and mine was due in less than a minute so I acted as quickly as I could, making sure not to touch the rails.'[/quote] He also says he "just reacted with instinct," the same instinct that should be telling us to look where we're going when dangerous hazards are about. The boy wound up winded and shed a few tears. There's no telling how many of those tears were for the progress lost in whatever PSP game he was playing before the drop. [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353223/Hero-policeman-Alessandro-Micalizzi-jumped-rail-tracks-rescue-boy-fell-platform-engrossed-Sony-PSP.html]The dramatic moment a hero policeman jumped onto rail tracks to rescue a boy who fell off platform while engrossed in portable games console[/url] [DailyMail.co.uk][/release] I guess you could say he had an extra life :v:
Goodie I can hear it now... :foxnews:"Children are killing themselves to play video games. More at 11":foxnews:
Looks like it hurt, thank god he didn't get shocked to death.
Well that was one platformer he didn't want to play.
That poor PSP..
I wouldn't exactly call that heroic.
[QUOTE=Sharker;27858872]I wouldn't exactly call that heroic.[/QUOTE] are you serious
Oh my god, that would have been terrible if he hadn't been saved
but was the psp okay?
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;27859182]Oh my god, that would have been terrible if he hadn't saved[/QUOTE] Fixed.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SWN7hQyYzI[/media]
I'm probably going to come across as a dick for saying this but that kid was unbelievably dumb
GTA V: This time, cops help you.
Who plays PSP anymore?
[QUOTE=Sharker;27858872]I wouldn't exactly call that heroic.[/QUOTE] Yes it was, I'd like to see you (or a lot of people) jump down into a railroad thing to save someone you dont even know
Its not like he would have died. He would just respawn at the entrance to the station.
This is why you shouldn't try to multitask with moving. See: this story, car crashes from tweeting "lol im late", reading while walking through a parking lot, etc. Good thing he was saved, though. [QUOTE=Kingy_who;27858369]Well that was one platformer he didn't want to play.[/QUOTE] [URL=http://img7.imageshack.us/i/jackchickyaaaaa.jpg/][IMG]http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4613/jackchickyaaaaa.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Sorry, I just had to. Why can't they just put up some automatic gate / fence that only goes down when the train has reached the station and stopped moving? Then goes back up a little after the train leaves? Sure would stop a lot of accidents.
I remember once when I was busy playing my Gameboy Colour, I walked across a street when I wasn't supposed to. Luckily, the driver honked instead of hitting my dumb ass.
Darwin is disappoint.
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