WoW Skills Save Kid's Life

It appears as if video games don't just make you want to maim everyone in sight. Indeed, 12 year old Hans Jorgen Olsen, from Leksvik, Norway, recently used skills he had aquired while playing Blizzard's famed MMORPG to save his life.

Olsen was walking in the woods with his sister, aged 10, when they encountered an enraged moose. Olsen promptly started to hit the moose (for those of you who spend your days in front of your PCs, moose can and will reach 6ft in height and a weight of well over 1000 pounds) with a stick to lure it away from his sister. He then employed a tactic he claims to have learned as a level 30 hunter in WoW: he played dead. The moose apparently went for the ploy, seeing that Olsen survived to give Nettavisten an interview.


I will digress from mentioning that I find a 12 year old level 30+ WoW player (addict?) mildly disturbing (actually, I won't, click here for my thoughts on the matter), and applaud young Hans Jorgen for his bravery.