Here's a perfect case of life imitating art, or a computer game, which, depending on which side of the fence you fall, could be art or it could just be a pixel-polygonated escape from reality for fan boys, but anyway.

Here's an article about the release of the second expansion pack for World Of Warcraft, the online game for fanatics, as if anyone needs to be told. It's all pretty straight forward stuff but about a third of the way down we learn of a certain fate that befalls one Scott Hamshere from Bromley, which is in the county of Kent in England.

What happens to him is not just funny, in the schadenfreude vein of humour, but it also, strangely, mimics the gameplay of Warcraft...

A classic case of spawn camping, perhaps? Camped for 18 hours for a rare spawn with an even rarer drop, only to fall asleep 5 minutes before it spawned. Some n00b jumped and KSed him!

If I hadn't watched a video of two science guys I've never met, performing this experiment and speaking with authoritative voices, I would never have believed it. Because that's the kind of solid proof I need, if I see it on a screen, it must be true.

Who'd've thought something so simple and seemingly innocent would be fraught with such hidden dangers? I've been using sticky tape for years, does that mean I've got radiation poisoning? I'm sure my bones have weakened slightly, only yesterday I was walking up some stairs when my left fibula shattered and I fell over, only to put my hand out to break the fall, when all I broke was my hand, which then crumbled into dust. I'd sticky tape it back together but I'm afraid to...

There is one good thing to come from this, Stan Lee could create a brand new superhero, say one that for all his young life has collected beer mats (let's say his dad's a no good bar fly, adds a certain pathos) to stick into a scrap book and he always used sticky tape...cue frantic panelling showing radiation affecting young Jimmy's cellular structure and turning him into the glutinous Gummy Boy! Kind of like Spider-Man but he shoots sticky tape (double-sided!) from his wrists and can wrap a present in seconds without the finished product looking like a gift-wrapped ground-zero. Amazing, huh?

Right, now let's sell the film rights to Warner and make ourselves some easy millions!