4 Oct, 2010
Everyone has a friend who finishes the majority of their sentences with the phrase “…it was in the Daily Mail”. These friends are, generally speaking, walking vortexes of sensationalist nonsense.
The latest target in the long-running battle, Daily Mail vs Everything Else, is highly-popular DS game Nintendogs. Yes, you heard me right – the most harmless game that’s ever existed. The reason? Megan Walker, 9 years old from Bolton, was victim to a vicious mauling recently which resulted in her top lip being ripped off.
The dog in question, a bull mastif – not exactly the most shy and retiring breed of dog – is thought to have launched its terrifying assault after hearing Megan’s virtual pooch barking from her Nintendo DS. Luckily, the friends she was with at the time were quick to act and doctors were able to reattach Megan’s lip in a two-hour operation. The dog, Saracen, was handed over to the authorities by its owner and has since been destroyed.
So who is to blame for this horrifying incident? The dog? The owner, keeping children around such a temperamental breed unsupervised? What about the child? The article goes on to mention, as a complete afterthought, the possibility that Megan may have provoked the dog prior to the attack.
No, according to Megan’s grandmother Jean Taylor, who was looking after her at the time of the incident, while her mother Leanne was holidaying in Jamaica, Nintendo are entirely at fault. “I think this game should carry some kind of warning”, she said in an interview with the Daily Mail. “People should be told not to play it when there are dogs in the room. I blame the game for what happened to Megan. If they hadn’t been playing it I don’t think the dog would have gone for her.”
Spoken like a true Daily Mail reader. At the time of the report, Megan’s mother was still on holiday.
Source Daily Mail
Well, what does Jean Taylor really know, not only does she not own the dog but she wasn’t around at the time of the attack either, as Megan was at a friends house at the time. Plus she ignores that fact the attack may have been because Megan kicked the dog. Urgh, I hate The Mail.
I love the ‘Oh yeah, and she might’ve kicked the dog’ following paragraph after paragraph of slating Nintendo! Typical DM.
I’d like to dress this up less baldly, but truth is, I fucking hate the Daily Fail.
I long for the day we see an article saying: ‘Daily Mail Chief dragged from Serpentine with DS stuffed in anus’.