12-yr-old relies on WoW knowledge to fend off real life moose attack

Hunters love to do this, it ensures they get to roll on every weapon

This is the kind of story that you know can't be made up, it's just too bizarre. And it's in Norwegian, so I'll just have to take it at face value. Here's the basic rundown: The boy and his sister were taking a shortcut through the woods on the way home from school when they came upon a moose who got aggressive. The kid started shouting to distract the moose while his sister ran away and when faced with a very irate and very large mammal did what he had done many times before while playing his Hunter in World of Warcraft. He fell over and feigned death. Eventually the moose lost interest and toddled off. And now, I see the boy years from now telling this story:

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Funniest thing though, when I ran the original story through the first online translator I found, the game was converted as "World shame Warcraft". I'm thinking that's more accurate than using "of".

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was it really because of wow, or because his mother taught him to lie down and not move if he ever came upon a bear or something in the woods?

In the story, the boy says he feigned death, just like World of Warcraft.

- Vi holdt øyekontakt en god stund, og så stakk den plutselig av, sier han.

Ideen om å spille død hadde han lært av å spille onlinerollespillet World of Warcraft.

- Når du kommer til level 30, lærer du et triks som kalles «fake death». Det var det jeg gjorde - jeg lot som om jeg var død, og da mistet elgen interessen, sier den modige 12-åringen.