Dead toddler mistook gun for Wii controller
p2pnet view Games:- A toddler in Tennessee is dead after mistaking a loaded gun for a Nintendo Wii video game controller.
Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan accidentally shot herself after her stepfather left his loaded Smith & Wesson within her reach.
Douglas and Ann Cronberger, both 32, were “inside their rural Norene home when the child shot herself Sunday night”, the Tennessean has Wilson County sheriff Terry Ashe saying.
“Her mother was on the computer just a few feet away”, Ashe said in a statement.
Cronberger “usually kept his gun unloaded and in a cabinet”, says the story, adding:
“However, on Saturday night, Cronberger got out his gun, loaded it and went outside to look for what he thought was a prowler. When he came back inside, he put the gun on an end table in the living room and forgot about it, according to a Sheriff’s Department statement.
“The statement also said Cheyenne learned how to use a gun from playing a Nintendo Wii game for days.”
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Tennessean – Wilson County child’s shooting death blamed on gun-Wii mix-up, March 9, 2010
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Redneck parents in denial, looking for anyone to blame but themselves. It is astounding the lengths people will go to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. Makes me wonder if this couple may be hoping to profit from their tragedy by suing Nintendo. It is he American way after all, is it not?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
They should have just done what my parents did when I was her age: Show the gun, say “If you touch this, it can kill you,” and then keep it out of her reach. If she still tries to get it and play with it, then she won’t be missed from the gene pool.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
This well re-ignite the “Video games are Bad” debate. The fact that a toddler shouldn’t be playing a game that requires a gun in the first place will be overlooked.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
@RadialSkid easy..
but a toddler wouldnt of known any better… it should of atleast been unloaded
Wait, a wii Game? The Nintendo wii was intended to be non-violent, I doubt a game involving a gun or ’shooting action’ would of been approved for the wii?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
I’m Pro-Gun, but that couple should fry for being irresponsible fuckheads! Such idiots make me furious.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
We have a Wii, the few shooting games they have do not require a controller that looks ANYTHING like a real gun. They either require the plain old Wii-mote or some huge white plastic contraption which while it has at trigger on it looks nothing like a real gun.
We also have a gun in the house as my husband is a LEO and it is kept in a locked box, on a very high shelf in a locked closet and the only time it leaves that area is when my husband wears it to work. Seriously people. Common sense!
March 11th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
…I forgot to say and those few games are not ones a toddler should be playing anyway. We let our three year old play sports resort which involves, frisbee throwing, bowling, golfing, flying an air plane things like that.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
From other sites I’ve seen this story on, they apparently special ordered a unique controller from Europe that looks like a gun. Anyway, agreed. Stupid parents.
It’s criminally irresponsible idiots like these people who give the rest of us gun nuts a bad name. I believe the three biggest risks to our civil rights in the long run are the government (Fed, state and local), corporations, and people who abuse and take for granted their rights.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:28 am
God Bless America its the greatest country in the world …. so i hear
March 12th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Too bad parents are ineligible for Darwin’s award…