Yeah, Feed Your Virtual Daughter Instead

Can kill

Don’t you ever wish you could be in someone else’s head to see what it’s like to:

- know things other people don’t know (Einstein)
- be pretty sure you’d be welcomed to impregnate every woman you saw (Clooney)
- have the absence of rational thought (these people)

A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.

In their defense, video games can be awfully addictive. In college, I once forgot to brush my teeth before bed one night after playing Worms: Armageddon into the wee hours, so I know the feeling!

The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

Ah, see! Had the baby come out when it was supposed to, the couple could have finished their game in peace. I mean, when your responsibility is to raise a child for the rest of your lives, the last thing parents need is for it to arrive a few months early, throwing a wrench into their baby preparation plans.