Parents across the country are being warned to destroy all video games and consoles after it emerged that a young, innocent, middle class white English girl has been attacked whilst playing a video game.
The child had been playing the seemingly innocent Nintendo title “Nintendogs” when the horrific tragedy occurred. The child, named Megan, was visiting a friend and was in the care of Ms Melville. Over to the reporters of the Daily Mail for this breaking news:
Megan, a pupil at St James’ Primary School, had woken up and was turning on the game station at around 10am on Sunday, September 19, while Saracen was asleep on a mattress in the living [room] of the house.
St James’ Primary School pupil Megan said: ‘When I woke up I turned on the Nintendo. It barked and Saracen dragged me off the couch by my foot. I was scared.’
When she realised that Megan was being attacked, Ms Melville started kicking him and her second pet dog, named Zena, also attacked Saracen in a bid to save the child.
Mrs Taylor, Grandmother of Megan, said one of Ms Melville’s daughters ran to get her as she only lives a minute up the road and then she and Megan’s 14-year-old sister Sophie ran to help.
‘When I saw her I went hysterical. She just had a dirty rag over her face. I just said ‘where’s her lip?’ It was horrible, the worse thing I have ever seen in my life,’ said Mrs Taylor.
Mrs Taylor is horrified that the game could make dogs react in such a horrific way.
‘I think this game should carry some kind of warning,’ she said.
‘People should be told not to play it when there are dogs in the room. I blame the game for what happened to Megan. If they hadn’t been playing it I don’t think the dog would have gone for her.’
Time for a reality check. Let us ignore that any sane person would think “Hmm, perhaps playing a game featuring barking dogs in the vicinity of other dogs is perhaps a bad idea”, let us ignore the 580 words of the Daily Mail article including the headline, “Terrified schoolgirl, 9, has top lip ripped off by dog after it heard barking on her Nintendo DS” and let us ignore the massive picture of the Nintendogs title.
Instead let us focus on the last two sentences of the article.
Ms Melville was unavailable for comment, but it is understood that she told police that Megan may have kicked Saracen and that is why he attacked her. No one from Nintendo was available for comment.
Words fail me.
Source: The Daily Mail
Charmed_Fanatic
Oh my god … can we get the Daily Mail editor to play Nintendogs in a room with a dog and see what happens??
Severn2j
Saw this on Eurogamer this morning, it really makes me wonder who’s doing the editing on the Daily Mail.. If anyone is.
3shirts
Haha, that is too funny to even get angry about!
DJ Judas
So girl kicks dog, gets attacked, finds scapegoat in the game, grandmothers an old lady who doesn’t know any better and the daily mail twist the story somewhat.
No surprises there, its depressing that so much reporting is like this, almost every time I see, hear or read a news piece on a subject I actually know something about, 40% of the information is incorrect. Genuinely scary.
BrendanCalls
Right thats it Ive had just about enough of this, Anyone who reads the Daily Mail is getting hit over the head with my Move controller!!!
Ryan1991
Wouldn’t a hammer be better? Less likely to break and means you will still have a Move.
BrendanCalls
Yeah but then it would be me who was to blame and not Sports Champions or Eyepet
kevatron400
Plus the move controller can be whatever you want… in augmented reality. Just get them to stand in front of you whilst you play the whack-a-mole round in Start the Party.
Tuffcub
Worst thing is the dog has been put down, all becuase he reacted in a perfectly natural way when someone kicked him.
kevatron400
I hate the fact the call killing animals ‘destroying’ them. They may as well say the dog has now been obliterated.
STILLCANTTHINKOFAGOODPSNNAME
finnish him!, fatality!
Dany2Step
your not perchance a brunette female comedien are you?
just i was at the stand comedy club a few weeks back and a girl had a joke like that, almost word for word.
mrbennuk
I’m reporting this to the IPCC, false reporting . I’m so angry I cannot think what to write here .
rossthebassist
see this is why i have a psp, no dogs barking on a psp.
nemesisND1derboy
Don’t know what to say…Maybe the idiot from the Daily Mail who reported this should be put down…
Jones81
Is anyone with good writing skills going to write a letter to the daily mail, C’mon Tuffcub, let em have it !
Tuffcub
I did try writing to them but all I managed to get out of my keyboard was “WANKERS!”
3shirts
And that was into Google image search