Full Version: Girl killed in Wii Remote mix-up

From: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1]
 9 Mar 22:00
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Tue Mar 09 04:39PM by Yahoo! UK Games Editor

A girl has been killed after picking up a loaded gun, apparently mistaking it for a Wii Remote gun-style controller.

Three year-old Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan from Wilson County Tennessee died from a single self-inflicted shot to the abdomen from a .380 calibre semi-automatic pistol. The loaded firearm had been left on the coffee table in the living room of the girl’s house, after her stepfather thought he had heard a prowler outside.

According to the child’s mother, Cheyenne had been playing a Wii game that uses a gun peripheral - not one manufactured or approved by Nintendo (seen in the picture, underneath the handgun used in the shooting) - shortly before the accident occurred. The youngster was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe is investigating the case, although has not yet brought any charges relating to this tragic incident.

OMG, it just gets worse and worse, who would leave a loaded gun around with a toddler in the room? I know who, the guy above.

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From: sinkywinky [#2]
 9 Mar 22:25
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1] 9 Mar 23:31

BAN IMITATION GUN PERIPHERALS

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From: william [#3]
 9 Mar 23:13
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1] 9 Mar 23:31

OMG what sort of idiot thinks a loaded gun is an appropriate response to a possible prowler? He should have raised a militia.

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From: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) [#4]
 9 Mar 23:42
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I guess those pesky video games have tragically claimed another life. :-((

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From: Hugh et al le J (KOSWIX) [#5]
 10 Mar 0:15
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1] 10 Mar 1:22

And the Darwin Award goes to...

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From: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#6]
 10 Mar 1:23
To: Hugh et al le J (KOSWIX) [#5] 10 Mar 1:25

I dont think it applies. Although she took herself out of the gene pool. It was her father's stupidity not her own that caused it.

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From: Hugh et al le J (KOSWIX) [#7]
 10 Mar 1:25
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#6] 10 Mar 8:52

The father shot her?

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From: paul [#8]
 10 Mar 2:26
To: Hugh et al le J (KOSWIX) [#7] 10 Mar 11:01

It was the father's shooting that caused her.

Simples.

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From: johngti_mk-ii [#9]
 10 Mar 9:57
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1] 10 Mar 17:50

Is it just me that thinks this is, firstly, really upsetting and, secondly, incredibly annoying.

3 year olds can't be expected to know the difference and the fact that this little girl has died really upsets me; I can't find any humour in it.

Her father is a complete idiot and should be jailed.

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From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) [#10]
 10 Mar 10:53
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#6] 10 Mar 17:50

No, it was her stepfather's stupidity, so it's not even the case that his stupidity has been taken out of the gene pool.

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From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) [#11]
 10 Mar 10:54
To: paul [#8] 10 Mar 10:58

Not her (biological) father, so not so simples. Init?

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From: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#12]
 10 Mar 17:51
To: johngti_mk-ii [#9] 10 Mar 22:53

quote: johngti_mk-ii
Her father is a complete idiot and should be jailed.
 I totally agree.

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From: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) [#13]
 10 Mar 19:51
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#12] 10 Mar 20:17

Absolutely. It must be some kind of gross negligence at the very least, if not involuntary manslaughter.

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From: Hugh et al le J (KOSWIX) [#14]
 10 Mar 21:51
To: johngti_mk-ii [#9] 10 Mar 22:53

She was 3?

:$

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From: MrTrent [#15]
 10 Mar 22:48
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) [#13] 10 Mar 23:35

In a normal country i'm sure that would be the case. I'd be suprised if anything happens to him over there though.

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From: johngti_mk-ii [#16]
 10 Mar 22:54
To: Hugh et al le J (KOSWIX) [#14] 10 Mar 23:06

Yep hence my lack of a sense of humour over it

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From: Yvejallajokull (YVE) [#17]
 10 Mar 23:10
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1] 10 Mar 23:59

WTF?!

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From: JonCooper [#18]
 11 Mar 8:38
To: MrTrent [#15] 11 Mar 12:25

I thought the same when I read "no charges yet"
end up as 'tragic accident' I expect

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From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) [#19]
 12 Mar 2:19
To: Killamarshian (HAL9001) [#1] 12 Mar 21:53

If I had any remaining sense of the innate value of human life this would depress the hell out of me.

Fortunately, I'm already so depressed I don't, so it doesn't.

Funny old world, isn't it?

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From: johngti_mk-ii [#20]
 12 Mar 8:11
To: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) [#19] 14 Mar 11:41

Think I might be catching what you've got then. In a sense, anyway :(

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