Man dies after online game marathon Options

[angel-roh]

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.

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][Horro...]

Rofl. Poor guy.
Wow thats so long to be on the comp.
I heard a couple of stories before like this
Killer computer.

[DullStringedGuit...]

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]

Wow, I don't know what to say here except:

WATCH OUT KIDS VIDEO GAMES WILL KILL YOU DEAD!

[yummy_delight]

Now, that's just sad.

I don't feel sorry for him. It was his own fault.

[angel-roh]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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*]

Man that sucks....*goes back to playing games*

[*incoherent*]

lmao...i dont mean to be mean, but thats kinda funny...

[angel-roh]

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]

argh. i need to watch out!

[Shahin]

lmao.

[hiromi]

Hah XD that's hilarious in the saddest, most pathetic way!

[heyyfrankie]

seriously, that's sad. it irrates me for some reason.

[mouse_3k]

wooow....I guess internet can kill

[cookienmilkforna...]

damn that sucks for him... lol he quit his job to play video games... dumbass

[SillyCourtney]

What an idiot. That's funny, in an odd sort of way. Maybe he should've done something better with his time.

[*kryogenix*]

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]

wow; quitting his job to play more games? i cant believe the store people allowed him to do this.

[*iNyCxShoRT*]

Wow poor guy, and i thought 13 hours was alot

[*xcaitlinx*]

how is that funny? it's sad. poor guy..

[mocassinsx29]

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.

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]

damn. RIP. did he want to die or something??

[aforce65]

Wow, he died from playing too much...i thought what i played was alot, guess not.

[xx_Fashionista_x...]

Holy crap -uninstalls sims 2-

[iiTsDAYNA]

Thats sad. Quitting a job to play video games.. RIIITE... he must have been getting a workout just from playing video games.. Ehh..

[misskentucky]

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]

Thats sad. Quitting a job to play video games.. RIIITE... he must have been getting a workout just from playing video games.. Ehh..

people can do that, if you're really good, companies will sponsor you and give you lots of money just to play.


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.]

whoa, I never knew playing on the computer too much would kill you.

[gelionie]

I wouldn't sympathize him at all.
Serves him right for playing online games that long.
He even quitted his job for that... WTF.

[jue]

oh my gosh. NEver knew video games could cause someones death. I just htought it could ruin your eyesight.

[hall0w]

dats gonna b me soon

[demolished]

Shit man. i think people are becoming more obessed with games. Especially game excitement.

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]

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]

scaaaaaaary
I read it all, but I really don't know what to post but poor guy [/end cloning liz's post]

[illumineering]

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

You can still live without sunlight.

Umm...no.

[azn_r4pf4n]

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]

that's so sad :'(

[its_annah]

How pathetic. And sad.

[Blank-OuT]

Wow, shouldn't the cafe have kicked him out or something? I thought internet cafes had closing times lol.

[Shahin]

This guy's death is too hilarious to only post once. Ha-fricken-ha!

[medic]

Whats sad is you expect that kind of new from CNN.....

[ikayto]

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 wordsTomFelton...]

SHIEZT! i dont think ILL be playing video games any more!!! LOL

[*mipadi*]

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_]

that's just crazy

[BrokenDream]

I am just speechless .
the computer is a killer?!

wow. and I thought I spent too much time on the computer.

[Xprezsion]

OH yea I heard about this, it seems kinda weird =/.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

damn.
poor dude.
how could you be on the computer for that long ?

[parallel]

Heh. Sounds pretty sad/dumb to me.

[angel-roh]

I am just speechless  .
the computer is a killer?!

wow. and I thought I spent too much time on the computer.

Yeah computer can lead to death. I once posted about computer death. Keyboard can shock you if your hands get verrrry hot. Same goes with wearing jewerly or hot hand while putting gas into your car >.<;

[*danielle_x3*]

wow that's weird. :o
i wouldn't want to die like that. he played for a long time O_O

[cheerbee07]

wow. jeez. makes me kinda glad that i'm not a computer game junkie.

this is the real reason why games are bad for you. hurting your eyes is only the beginning, watch your life

[rainbawwors]

how stupid.

[miss barnes]

he was obsessed. i mean come on he quit his job...

[Chii]

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.

it wasn't really the parents' fault that the baby died, no one knows what causes SIDS nor does anyone know how to prevent it.

he was obsessed. i mean come on he quit his job...

it's not always an obsession, he could have been sponsored to play video games. people will sponsor you if you're really good at something so the company can get publicity.

[EXPLO5ION]

That is not something to laugh about. Its a sad way to die.

[Paradox of Life]

How is someone dying of heart failure, "ROFL" and "LOL" worthy, Susan?

It's actually pretty sad.

Exactly what I was thinking.. Poor guy. That's terrible. LOOK WHAT TECHNOLOGY HAS DONE TO US!!

[*mipadi*]

it wasn't really the parents' fault that the baby died, no one knows what causes SIDS nor does anyone know how to prevent it.

The point remains that the parents left a 4-month-old home alone because they were too busy playing a videogame.

[angel-roh]

That is not something to laugh about. Its a sad way to die.

It's funny because he died because he was playing way too much computer games. He even quit his job just to play games. Think about it. You don't think that's stupid and funny? Forget about his death. It's his own fault for playing too much.

[*salcha*]

This is why we need a life other than going on the computer.

[WHOngos144]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/8888579/

what's up with people these days??
I mean 50 hours!

I thought playin too much video games would only ruin ur datin life... guess I was wrong

[snoox]

dayuuum! that's whack~!

[azn_r4pf4n]

so many internet/video game related topics ...

[*Solipsist*]

I can top that... when I hit 60.
9 more levels wewt!

- Solipsist

[xoxoxx]

hi jose.

[*Solipsist*]

Hi sean.
How are you?

- Solipsist

[whomps]

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