Now who said that video games have the tendency to create violence among kids? This Norwegian kid saved his sister’s life from an amok moose heading her way, all thanks to his skills where he learned from playing Blizzard’s mmorpg World of Warcraft. The news might be slowpoke, but still a good read to deceive yourself and others that gaming can increase our survival’s rate. I wonder did he use a distracting shot for the taunt or not.

Hans and his sister got into trouble after they had trespassed the territory of the moose during a walk in the forest near their home. When the moose attacked them, Hans knew the first thing he had to do was ‘taunt’ and provoke the animal so that it would leave his sister alone and she could run to safety. ‘Taunting’ is a move one uses in World of Warcraft to get monsters off of the less-well-armored team members.

Once Hans was a target, he remembered another skill he had picked up at level 30 in ‘World of Warcraft’ – he feigned death. The moose lost interest in the inanimate boy and wandered off into the woods. When he was safely alone Hans ran back home to share his tale of video game-inspired survival.

[via Gizmodo]