Boy Dies From Watching Naruto

naruto-suicide

Earlier this month an Indonesian boy died after imitating the actions of Naruto Uzumaki, strangling himself with a belt. Indonesian authorities have begun a witch hunt of sorts against violent television. While I am sorry for the boy’s death and the grief it must have brought to his family, this is the Internet and when a kid dies from watching Naruto, its funny.

Indonesia is just beginning to air Naruto and its already has a death toll. While here in the west we’re finally getting over the whole Naruto disaster, we always knew there was something wrong with Naruto fans, I guess we just didn’t know it could be fatal, until now.

[An Ethereal Shard / Via ANN]

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  • 11 Comments

    1. January 21st, 2008 at 9:29 pm

      Hey, thx for giving the link. It presumably has increased the number of visitors to my blog twofold than the normal number.

      Anyway, it’s quite a funny picture you got here :)

    2. January 21st, 2008 at 9:50 pm

      No problem! I doubt your traffic surge is mostly from this site though.

    3. Khaim
      January 21st, 2008 at 11:36 pm

      … i still dont get what part did the dumbass kid imitated…

    4. January 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 am

      I don’t really follow Naruto, but this forum might shed some light:

      http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/cms/discuss/21224

      Someone nicknamed Shadowrun20XX wrote: “As for anyone in Naruto,causing harm to themselves would be spoiler[Hidan of the Akatsuki,and his,self sacrifice style jutsu.] He is the only one that came to mind.But that’s still far from being animated.”

      Apparently, it might have not been Uzumaki Naruto whom he was imitating after all, it could also be other characters in that anime.

    5. January 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 am

      I can’t remember any suicidal jutsu in Naruto. I don’t follow Naruto (anime) as well, but I read the manga.

    6. Link
      January 22nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm

      I lul’d and spit out my water.

    7. Jay2
      March 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am

      What A Dumbass….

    8. Link
      March 13th, 2008 at 6:40 am

      You’d better BELIEVE IT!!

    9. tayler
      March 23rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm

      wtf is wrong with people today?? Dont people, even children, realize that people do things on tv because sometimes they arent POSSIBLE IN REAL LIFE. Pisses me off

    10. takayumi
      April 5th, 2008 at 2:53 am

      i say hidan would be worse..xD

    11. June 28th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

      hmmm what part of naruto does anyonw starngel themselves some one p,lease tell me


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