Man Dies After Three-Day Video Game Binge

[seabeyond]

The unnamed man, in his thirties, had not slept, had hardly eaten and had barely moved from his computer when he collapsed and slipped into a coma Monday evening at an Internet cafe outside Beijing.

The man, who had reportedly spent more than 10,000 yuan ($1,500) on Internet gaming over the past month, was rushed to a nearby clinic but was pronounced dead a short time afterwards.

Police removed several computers from the cafe for investigation but have ruled out homicide and were examining specific causes of death.

The incident highlights China's increasing number of Internet addicts, which according to researchers has risen to more than 30 million.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/22/chinese-man-dies-day-gaming-binge/

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i really try not to do anything fox. just bad at google. heard this on BBC this morning. amazing

[DainBramaged]

1. This is not the first time I have read about this

FAUX, all the news that's fit to be recycled

[NV Whino]

People never cease to amaze.

[liberal N proud]

2. One of the CSI shows did an episode where a guy died gaming once

[Historic NY]

3. Wonder what was he playing?

[seabeyond]

4. me, too. when hubby and i first married yrs ago, before the babies

we would stay up all night playing doom, or quest or something. and was fun. but then we would sleep all day, too.

[Blue_Tires]

5. in my grad school days, i could easily burn up an entire weekend

playing Counter-Strike, only stopping to eat...

[Broderick]

9. Probably Farmville or Mafia Wars.

[Renew Deal]

6. That must have been an intense "session"

I've never been able to go that long. He's the Cal Ripken Jr. of gaming.

[originalpckelly]

7. I used to play Dune 2000 and a various assortment of late 90s/early aughties games, but I slept.

WTF?

Fuck that shit.

[LaurenG]

8. People don't normally die from lack of sleep

I wonder what disease process killed him? Diabetes, PE? Something sent him into a coma besides lack of sleep, I would think anyway.

[X_Digger]

11. Prolly a DVT .. deep vein thrombosis

Clot forms in sedentary leg, breaks off, ends up in his lung (pulmonary embolism).

[LaurenG]

12. Yeah PE was one of the first things I thought of. nt

[gratuitous]

10. There but for the grace of God . . .

Boy, am I glad some of this stuff wasn't around when I was younger. I was bad enough in the 1970s with the usual teen/early 20s obsessions. A limitless supply of computer games? I'd have never seen 30, let alone become the scintillating internet poster I am today.

[seabeyond]

13. lol. i hear ya. nt

[undeterred]

14. Oh, I thought he ate them.

[seabeyond]

15. ah ha.... lol. i had to go back up and read th op to figure out what you were saying

that is funny