Naruto is being sued.

Guys, you're going to have to trust me on this one.

Stephanie Porter, sister of Codey Porter, the young boy who died under the influence of Gaara came back to school today.

She wasn't crying, she was optimistic, and received many words of sympathy from everyone.

She came up to me today in 7th period and told me her dad was taking action to sue Naruto.
I asked her where she stood on the whole thing, and she told me she really didn't want it to go so far, but she did think it was under the influence of the show... she also told me that her brother did have a large imagination. She said she wasn't on anyones sides.

So there you have it, like I said, I have no actual proof, and you'll just have to trust me.

Really, I'm not too disappointed as long as it continues in japan... and I also think this is going to go NOWHERE in court =/​

 

Im sure it wont show up in court.

Unless they decided show a brief scene of Muhammed.

 

lol.

Ummm, loads of folk watch Naurto, but most folk aren't daft enough to copy it. Even if he was 10, you'd think he'd have enough sense to realise it was dangerous...once he started to choke.

I'm sorry, but this is just silly.

 

i don't think this is going to get somewhere
this is just like the dude who got expelled from his school because he made a death note =/
i'm sorry for his sister and family
and seriously they can't blame the owner of naruto for something his friends have done =|
if naruto is getting sued i'mma be mad D:

 

Kitty, that's not what happened.

He DID know when it was time to stop. He was thrashing around and crying and screaming, but his friends all thought it was part of the game. When he stopped moving, they still thought he was playing and waited until about 5 minutes to get the parents.​

 

Excuse me.


Well, the sue won't go anywhere. It wasn't the shows fault, just the cause of careless kids.

 

Now I DO agree with that.

Allthough really, I'm starting to think it was no ones fault.
It was just a horrible accident. A tragic one, at that.​

 

Can I have an article of this or something?..

and lol...wow..

 

Not the point.

It was his idea to be buried head-first in the sand. He made a mistake the moment he thought *that* was a cool idea. I'm not saying it's completely the kid's fault. There's lots of people at fault here. The kid for having the ridiculous idea, and the friends for actually agreeing to do it.

This case will go nowhere. Naruto is a widely watched show both in Japan and North America. It's been airing for years, and this is the first death case I've seen that mentions Naruto. It's not gonna fly.

The Matrix has been blamed repeatedly for lots of violence, both domestic and not--and it's common knowledge how far those law suits went.

The kid didn't deserve to die, no, but he sure was an idiot.

 

I doubt it'll go to court. Anyway, 10-year-olds should have enough logic to know that you're body doesn't breath sand, or eat it. I knew that then, I don't see why they didn't think first.​

 

You do know Naruto is rated age 13 or preferablly above ? So technically he wasn't even allowed to watch the anime.

Anyway the happening is tragic, I mean his death.

 

Lmao, yeah, I don't see them winning. MANY MANY MANY MANY people have been injured and killed thanks to TV, many have gone to court, none succeeded. This will just make that family look bad quite honestly.

 

Shadowjak, I totally agree with you =/

However, Soush... umm... no. I'd try restating everything I said in the last thread but the majority of people here just don't understand...

 

No, you're the one who doesn't understand.

Yes, the kid was thrashing about for a while and his friends thought he was playing. That much is clear and obvious to anyone who's read up on this incident. However, that is *not* the point. This kid came up with the stupid idea to begin with. If he had the common sense to know that going head-first into the sand isn't exactly the brightest idea, he wouldn't have been 'thrashing about' in the sand to begin with.

And it's quite ignorant to think that "if only those kids called the parents sooner he would've lived!" because quite frankly, if these kids were dumb enough to actually agree to bury their friend head first into the sand in the first place, what makes you think they'd be rational enough to call the parents at the first instance of seeing their friend thrash about wildly in the sand? That surely wasn't the case here.

 

Like I said in the last thread its the parents fault for letting their kid watching the show.Kids under the age of 13 shouldn't watch shows like Naruto,Dragon Ball Z, and other shows that have a lot of fighting.I'm sorry but the boy was dumb to have want to try to do that.Even his friends for agreeing to it.

Everything you have said I agree completely.Its the children's fault.

 

But he didn't even come up with the idea.
Although he was a fan of Naruto and agreed to play, it was his friends who brought the whole thing up.
And at the time, of course they didn't say "Hey, let's all dive head-first into the sand.", they merely just told him they should play Naruto and pretend to be various ninjas. His other friends decided to be Sand Shinobi, yadda yadda, and this ended up happening.
Codey wasn't a stupid kid. His intelligence was far superior to most his age, much like my own when I was 10.

I entirely agree with the second part though. His friends weren't the brightest kids.

People, stop blaming Codey. He agreed t this whole thing becaus he ddn't realize his friends would go this far.

He wasn't stupid, he just trusted his friends, like any boy would.
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Source? For someone who wasn't there in the flesh, you sure are adamant about saying something that nearly all the reports on this case haven't mentioned. It was an idea that all of them (if not Cody exclusively) came up with together. If Cody didn't think being buried in the sand was a good idea, wouldn't he have said "No guys, you're stupid, that'll kill me"? Surely this wasn't the case; Cody thought it was a swell idea.

His intelligence was far superior to most his age? I doubt any 10 year old with superior intelligence would be burying themselves head-first into the sand thinking it was a good idea. Smart kids would've said no. I also have to chuckle at the shameless self-promotion you did there.

 

I'm gonna stab myself in the heart and get someone to sue Square for showing it to me >:0

 

While the report that I read said it was Codey's idea, even under your claim Cody still AGREED to the idea. His apparent "intelligence" is not excusing anything, MadiYasha. As a kid of his age, fact is, he (along with his mates) were ignorant on the circumstances of burying his head in the sand, which resulted in Codey having a rather odd death.

EDIT: -_-' shootz, beat.

 

You're completely disregarding everything I'm saying.
You're right, I don't have a source. But Steph had called me directly after what happened. His friends confessed to everything after they had calmed down. Like I said, you don't have to believe me, but you should at least trust what I'm saying a little bit. I don't see how I would benefit if I lied about something like this situation.

Codey didn't come up with the idea though, that much I know is true. I don't know exactly what friends he was with, but trust me, the majority of his peers are real losers who aren't too bright. Codey did agree with it, which was a mistake on his part, but at the time, to a 10-year old boy, it didn't seem like anything dangerous. When they had suggested the idea, I'm pretty sure they didn't just get straight to the point that they were going to bury him in the sand. And really(since it's being brought up so much), the reports say head-first, and that isn't true.

I've heard from Codey's Grandma, his father, and both his sisters that he was actually buried chest-first. THAT was a huge mistake on the reporters part.

Anyways, you do put up some very persuasive points here. I guess I just can't accept it was Codey's fault because I knew who he was as a person, not just a member of a forum reading a VERY innacurate article.

(and when I say very, I MEAN it. It was horribly wrong on a lot of things.)​