Russian teen leaps off apartment block after seeing Naruto character die on TV

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elevision.html

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A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 100ft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite manga character killed in a cartoon.
Police say Leonid Hmelev died instantly.
The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'.
He left home after posting a message on a social networking site saying he was also 'planning an ending'.
His worried parents raised the alarm after he did not return home and a search was organised together with neighbours.
After being missing for two days his body was found yesterday and he was identified by his devastated father Ivan, 38.
He said: 'I always told him he spent too much time watching the TV - he didn't know what was reality and what was fiction anymore.'
Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. It has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world, just behind its neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan and more than three times that of the United States.

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Discuss.

Too bad you can't revive people in real life just like in Naruto.

I'm completely amazed at this. He can't be a hardcore Naruto fan, as he'd be caught up to the current episode/chapter right now. Yet apparently he's hardcore enough to jump off...

I'm sorry but that's hilarious.

I'm not saying he deserved it but if your that dumb....

What the heck? No way.

just like that one kid who drowned trying to go visit spongebob.

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Originally Posted by The Great One

just like that one kid who drowned trying to go visit spongebob.

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.... What..?

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Originally Posted by The Great One

just like that one kid who drowned trying to go visit spongebob.

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Okay, THAT'S IT.
This generation is NUTS.
NUTS AND BOLTS, I SAY.
Seriously, this is eather overdramatic, or they have some serious type of brainissues.
Wanting to follow fictional characters 'n pomegranate.
Suicide is sad and bad, yes. But because of THIS?! BECAUSE OF NARUTO?
I mean. WUT.
D-dis is just...what. Wut is this i dont even.
Just:
What.

That also happened earlier that the kid died in a sandbox performing a stunt from the same anime.

Yep, world's a scarier place.

I've always thought there should be an age restriction on watching Anime.

Naruto died?

....Darwin award winner

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Originally Posted by The Great One

just like that one kid who drowned trying to go visit spongebob.

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Agreed. When I first heard about that, I thought "Wth is wrong with people?"

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Originally Posted by Celan

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Okay, THAT'S IT.
This generation is NUTS.
NUTS AND BOLTS, I SAY.
Seriously, this is eather overdramatic, or they have some serious type of brainissues.
Wanting to follow fictional characters 'n pomegranate.
Suicide is sad and bad, yes. But because of THIS?! BECAUSE OF NARUTO?
I mean. WUT.
D-dis is just...what. Wut is this i dont even.
Just:
What.

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the whole generation is nuts because of 2 people? :f6:

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Originally Posted by DrRusty

the whole generation is nuts because of 2 people? :f6:

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Well of course! You always judge a group by a minority, didn't you know that?

OT: This is just crazy, i have a hard time relating to it but i wish the best for his family, poor parents.

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Originally Posted by happylight

Naruto died?

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Itachi, Sasuke's older brother died by sasuke. Also it's a shame he did this because he would have seen Itachi was more bad ass than batman.

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Originally Posted by DrRusty

the whole generation is nuts because of 2 people? :f6:

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That and media is ridiculous with covering things. I'm sure some kid in the 80's got lost in the woods looking for the smurfs, or tried to make friends with a bear because of the jungle book. But we didn't have internation coverage like that unless it was huge. I digress though, every future generation is going to call the later generation moronic. It's kind of a domino effect because by the time you're the falling domino, you reach an adult perspective that the naive domino still standing doesn't see. Thus you see the unreasonable actions of standing domino's never reflecting when you were at that frame of mind.

WORDS AND WIT FROM DR Sh`IT

Little does he know, Itachi comes back.

And becomes a f'ucking BADASS!

Apparently, that kid was already "not right". You can't blame this generation of kids based on that one alone and you can't blame this kid for jumping off because of anime...

You can't blame him. When I watched Naruto's anime I thought of it too, not because I had any favorite character and it died but because it was awful.

Due to the growing world population and increased media coverage we're probably facing a whole lot more of these crazy sad (yet tragically funny...) stories.

Damn anime. Won't someone please think of the children?

I honestly want to know if the kid really did suicide about something as dumb as naruto. I know things like that may happen, but you never know if the media blow things out of proportion or something.

LOL this is so sad...

It's just like that one kid a while back that died in a sandbox because he was trying to be like Gaara.

Someone should have told him to not count on anime characters staying dead even after they're killed. That being said I can't help but feel bad for the parents.

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Originally Posted by Worthyness

LOL this is so sad...

It's just like that one kid a while back that died in a sandbox because he was trying to be like Gaara.

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Oh god, I remembered hearing about it and later reading the article. Why are people doing this to themselves?!

If Naruto dies will suicide rates peak?

That is really crazy and stupid, completely reminds me of that spongebob incident that was mentioned on the previous page.

Off topic, but this thread is pineappleing gold.

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I honestly want to know if the kid really did suicide about something as dumb as naruto. I know things like that may happen, but you never know if the media blow things out of proportion or something.

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Point. Given how things are at Russia seeing Itachi's death may be what finally set him off instead of being the sole reason...not that it makes it sound better but there's a big difference between the two.

Okay lets think realistically. Most likely there's way more to the story but media decided to pick on a little detail like this for obvious reasons. Some of the Russian magazines etc. are literally "hogwash factories". Ask any Finnish person and they'll know...

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Originally Posted by DrRusty

the whole generation is nuts because of 2 people? :f6:

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Children at that.

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Originally Posted by Satellite

Okay lets think realistically. Most likely there's way more to the story but media decided to pick on a little detail like this for obvious reasons. Some of the Russian magazines etc. are literally "hogwash factories". Ask any Finnish person and they'll know...

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Yeah, my first instinct is to find this just crazy, but then i got to this part of the article.

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"Psychiatrists and health experts in Russia blame alcohol abuse, domestic violence, rigid rules and high expectations from parents.

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So now I have to wonder in the back of my head;

Was it just a simple obsession? Or did he escape into that world because of his life, become attached to this character and brought this about?

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Originally Posted by Seanny

Was it just a simple obsession? Or did he escape into that world because of his life, become attached to this character and brought this about?

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The world may never know.
I mean, don't characters usually come back in more episodes and such? :f6:

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Originally Posted by Nion

The world may never know.
I mean, don't characters usually come back in more episodes and such? :f6:

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Yeah, I don't think this poor guy was aware/believed it would happen if he would just... end himself though.

its natural selection

Insert Edo Tensei jokes.