South Korean Man Dies After Playing Video Games For 50 Hours Straight

[matcom]

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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.

Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.

He died a few minutes later, it said.

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[Richardo]

1. Calling Darwin Awards!

We've got a 2005 entrant!

[billyskank]

2. I'm sure I heard about that years ago!

The exact same shit can't happen to two crazy dudes, can it?

[DS1]

6. You'd be right

It happened to a Counter-Strike player in that part of the world.

The worst that's ever happened to me was throwing up after playing Quake2 for 5 hours straight - which I did a lot but I guess I wasn't used to the 19inch monitor and it gave me motion sickness the second I stopped and stood up :D

[bmbmd]

3. Wrong.

Pulmonary embolus.

[Chovexani]

4. My family better not ever give me shit ever again

I'm bad but I'm not that bad.

This is almost as fucked up as that guy in China killing another guy over a sword in an MMORPG.

[name not needed]

8. That really happened?

Sounds like Patton Oswalt's character on Reno 911.

[UrbScotty]

5. And they say AMERICANS are lazy!

:wow:

[Kurovski]

7. How much caffiene had he consumed?

Just wondering for the sake of evaluating my own fifty hour computer sessions.

[MadHound]

9. Only fifty hours? Slacker!

Geez, I've got friends who go longer than that on a regular basis. Hell when DOAC came out, there were people I knew who disappeared for weeks at a time.

[kick-ass-bob]

10. kick

:evilgrin:

[matcom]

11. ooooooo your bad!

:rofl:

[kick-ass-bob]

12. Did I miss any?

:rofl:

on edit: at least I didn't nominate them...

[matcom]

13. hey, at least mine was the first

:D