angel-roh
Aug 9 2005, 02:40 PM
LOL... my goodness. he played games for 50 hours ... then died. ROFL. heart failure... very scary. and this was in korea lol. i better watch out rofl.
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The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online 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 August 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.
South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.
link to this news:
http://cnn.org/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/ga...reut/index.html
[Scr3amin][Horror]
Aug 9 2005, 02:42 PM
Rofl. 
Poor guy.
Wow thats so long to be on the comp.
I heard a couple of stories before like this 
Killer computer.
DullStringedGuitar
Aug 9 2005, 02:43 PM
damn....thats LONG
i cant stay on for 50 hours....i hav a life...
unlike him...
he quit his job jus to play games?
wtf...
pshaa.shauna
Aug 9 2005, 02:45 PM
Wow, I don't know what to say here except:
WATCH OUT KIDS VIDEO GAMES WILL KILL YOU DEAD!
yummy_delight
Aug 9 2005, 02:48 PM
Now, that's just sad.
I don't feel sorry for him. It was his own fault. 
angel-roh
Aug 9 2005, 02:53 PM
QUOTE(brownsugar08 @ Aug 9 2005, 12:48 PM)
How is someone dying of heart failure, "ROFL" and "LOL" worthy, Susan?
It's actually pretty sad.
it's funny because he's from my country....
pshaa.shauna
Aug 9 2005, 02:55 PM
QUOTE(brownsugar08 @ Aug 9 2005, 1:48 PM)
How is someone dying of heart failure, "ROFL" and "LOL" worthy, Susan?
It's actually pretty sad.
She's not laughing at the heart failure...she's laughing at what caused the heart failure. And because it was an asian like her.
sharerol
Aug 9 2005, 02:56 PM
Wow. It's pretty pathetic of that guy to be playing video games for that long. But I do feel sorry for him. :/
angel-roh
Aug 9 2005, 03:00 PM
Well I'm sorry.
I laugh at everything even if it's something really sad. I don't know why I use the word ROFL a lot... when I know it stands for rolling on the floor laughing. It's just that I'm addicted to these words. I can't stop.
Only if you were a moderator, do you want to erase all my ROFL. I'm too lazy to erase it meaning I don't want to erase them.
ximxjustaxgirlx --- thanks for understanding i think.
technicolour
Aug 9 2005, 03:01 PM
I'm sorry but that is just funny. Yes it's sad, but come on. he played games for 50 hours and then had heart failure.
Does anyone else see the irony in that?
RiC3xBoy
Aug 9 2005, 03:04 PM
Man that sucks....*goes back to playing games*
incoherent
Aug 9 2005, 03:05 PM
lmao...i dont mean to be mean, but thats kinda funny...
angel-roh
Aug 9 2005, 03:07 PM
QUOTE(RiC3xBoy @ Aug 9 2005, 1:04 PM)
Man that sucks....*goes back to playing games* lol. yeah... i would do the same thing. hmm the longest time i played the game is like 14 hours... wow if it wasnt for this news, i would've been dead if i played more than 14 hours lol. i played maplestory for 14 hours -_-;; it feels like 3 hours, but it went to 14 hours T__T;;;;;; no wonder I lost pounds augh.
smrkangl
Aug 9 2005, 03:12 PM
argh. i need to watch out!
Shahin
Aug 9 2005, 03:43 PM
lmao.
hiromi
Aug 9 2005, 03:50 PM
Hah XD that's hilarious in the saddest, most pathetic way!
heyyfrankie
Aug 9 2005, 04:00 PM
seriously, that's sad. it irrates me for some reason.
mouse_3k
Aug 9 2005, 04:03 PM
wooow....I guess internet can kill
cookienmilkfornaps
Aug 9 2005, 05:02 PM
damn that sucks for him... lol he quit his job to play video games... dumbass
SillyCourtney
Aug 9 2005, 05:14 PM
What an idiot. That's funny, in an odd sort of way. Maybe he should've done something better with his time.
kryogenix
Aug 9 2005, 05:15 PM
QUOTE(ximxjustaxgirlx @ Aug 9 2005, 2:55 PM)
She's not laughing at the heart failure...she's laughing at what caused the heart failure. And because it was an asian like her.
So, if I sprouted wings, flew over to South Korea, farted, and the entire population suffocated, would it be funny?
loljuliana
Aug 9 2005, 06:09 PM
wow; quitting his job to play more games? i cant believe the store people allowed him to do this.
iNyCxShoRT
Aug 9 2005, 06:10 PM
Wow poor guy, and i thought 13 hours was alot
xcaitlinx
Aug 9 2005, 06:17 PM
how is that funny? it's sad. poor guy..
mocassinsx29
Aug 9 2005, 06:30 PM
It's his own fault, I feel more pity than sorrow. *smug*
That was like me once when I was addicted to GunBound. I skipped dinners just to play. >_< But now my internet connection is too crappy to play.
QUOTE(kryogenix @ Aug 9 2005, 5:15 PM)
So, if I sprouted wings, flew over to South Korea, farted, and the entire population suffocated, would it be funny?
I didn't think the video-game-heart-failure thing was funny, but I kinda find that fart thing funny. O_O I mean, how bad can it smell?
ThePrincessofTKD
Aug 9 2005, 06:37 PM
damn. RIP. did he want to die or something??
aforce65
Aug 9 2005, 06:43 PM
Wow, he died from playing too much...i thought what i played was alot, guess not.
xx_Fashionista_xx
Aug 9 2005, 07:12 PM
Holy crap -uninstalls sims 2-
iiTsDAYNA
Aug 9 2005, 07:55 PM
Thats sad. Quitting a job to play video games.. RIIITE... he must have been getting a workout just from playing video games.. Ehh..
misskentucky
Aug 9 2005, 08:02 PM
QUOTE(robb0 @ Aug 9 2005, 5:09 PM)
hunger. lack of oxygen/sunlight. poor guy.
You can die from lack of sunlight?
Thats horrible but funny. The guy should've known better. At least he was kicked out of the gene pool so he couldn't make more stupid babies. Darwins rocks :P
Chii
Aug 9 2005, 08:24 PM
QUOTE(RupertGrintluvr15 @ Aug 9 2005, 8:55 PM)
Thats sad. Quitting a job to play video games.. RIIITE... he must have been getting a workout just from playing video games.. Ehh..
i've heard about things like that before...like there was this one guy who just played a counter strike type game (or the game itself i don't know) and that's all he did. all he would eat were cup noodles and he rarely slept. i'm not sure if he died but he kept doing that because he was a really high rank and he didn't want anyone to surpass him.
i think it's sad...when a video game controls your life...
toodlepops.
Aug 9 2005, 08:29 PM
whoa, I never knew playing on the computer too much would kill you.
gelionie
Aug 9 2005, 09:08 PM
I wouldn't sympathize him at all.
Serves him right for playing online games that long.
He even quitted his job for that... WTF.
oh my gosh. NEver knew video games could cause someones death. I just htought it could ruin your eyesight.
hall0w
Aug 9 2005, 09:44 PM
dats gonna b me soon
demolished
Aug 9 2005, 10:50 PM
Shit man. i think people are becoming more obessed with games. Especially game excitement.
QUOTE(misskentucky @ Aug 9 2005, 5:02 PM)
You can die from lack of sunlight?
Thats horrible but funny. The guy should've known better. At least he was kicked out of the gene pool so he couldn't make more stupid babies. Darwins rocks :P
Sunlight produces heat.
If the world didnt have sunlight, we all died of coldness.
i dunno. You can still live without sunlight.
azn_r4pf4n
Aug 9 2005, 11:20 PM
this isn't surprising... especially since i've seen this a lot in one day
.
what also makes this non-surprising is that south korea is big for lots of it's gaming. lots of popular games are played there (i.e. : Starcraft, WoW (World Of Warcraft))
there was also another incident in south korea where 2 parents were really obsessed with world of warcraft. left their 4 month old baby at home by himself while they played World Of Warcraft at an internet cafe.
he died of SIDS.
its also hitting china too. there was this one guy in china, he killed this other guy for not giving him some video game items.
Aestuarium
Aug 9 2005, 11:24 PM
scaaaaaaary
I read it all, but I really don't know what to post but poor guy [/end cloning liz's post]
illumineering
Aug 9 2005, 11:24 PM
I don't think that's strange at all. I guess none of you have been to the casinos at Vegas, Reno or Atlantic City. That kind of behavior goes on all the time.
aznxboredxperson wrote
QUOTE
You can still live without sunlight.
Umm...no.
azn_r4pf4n
Aug 9 2005, 11:26 PM
QUOTE(illumineering @ Aug 9 2005, 8:24 PM)
I don't think that's strange at all. I guess none of you have been to the casinos at Vegas, Reno or Atlantic City. That kind of behavior goes on all the time.
i agree with u. gambling is addictive.
iL0v3CaPtAiN0AtS
Aug 10 2005, 12:05 AM
that's so sad :'(
its_annah
Aug 10 2005, 01:09 AM
How pathetic. And sad.
Blank-OuT
Aug 10 2005, 01:45 AM
Wow, shouldn't the cafe have kicked him out or something? I thought internet cafes had closing times lol.
Shahin
Aug 10 2005, 02:56 AM
This guy's death is too hilarious to only post once. Ha-fricken-ha!
medic
Aug 10 2005, 03:18 AM
Whats sad is you expect that kind of new from CNN.....
ikayto
Aug 10 2005, 03:28 AM
Yeah, i already knew korea, and most modern asian countries have problems with gaming at cafes.
Last i heard, they were trying to inforce a curfew for cafes and even banning games all together.
Now i see what they're afraid of.
2 wordsTomFelton13
Aug 10 2005, 04:12 PM
SHIEZT! i dont think ILL be playing video games any more!!! LOL
mipadi
Aug 12 2005, 08:24 AM
QUOTE(brownsugar08 @ Aug 9 2005, 3:48 PM)
How is someone dying of heart failure, "ROFL" and "LOL" worthy, Susan?
It's actually pretty sad.
It's a bit sad. But people die--it's a natural part of life. The great thing about his death is that he went out doing something he clearly loved.
_sarcastic_
Aug 12 2005, 08:32 AM
that's just crazy
BrokenDream
Aug 12 2005, 08:42 AM
I am just speechless .
the computer is a killer?!
wow. and I thought I spent too much time on the computer.
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