Your addiction to video games can actually kill you. Like it happened to this man in Taiwan.
Believe it or not, he kept on playing a video game for three straight days at a cyber cafe and on the third day, he was dead!
The incident took place in Taipei and the name of the video game victim, aged 32, was Hsieh.
People
at the cyber cafe discovered that Hsieh was dead after they saw him
sitting motionless on his chair and they thought he was just tired and
was sleeping, reported Taipei Times.
An
attendant who went to check on him was startled to find that he was not
breathing. Hsieh was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.
"Hsieh was a regular customer here and always played for consecutive days. When tired, he would sleep face-down on the table or doze off slumped in his chair. That is why we were not aware of his condition in the beginning," the attendant was quoted as saying the newspaper.
Doctors said Hsieh died of a heart attack -- another "sudden death" from prolonged computer gaming.
A police official said that cold temperatures and over-exhaustion from intense game-playing may have contributed to the cardiac failure.
"We advise people to get up and move around after every two hours of computer gaming. More patrols will be conducted to remind residents about the dangers of prolonged sitting and game-playing," the officer was quoted as saying.
On January 1, a 38-year-old man was found dead at a cyber cafe in Taipei after five days straight of video game playing, said the report.
In both cases, police said they were irked by the disinterested attitude of other cafe users.
"We went inside to cordon off the tables and had investigators there to gather evidence. Only then did the other customers realise that someone had died, but they still showed no concern and kept playing their games. We were amazed at their nonchalant attitude," a police officer was quoted as saying.
Video games are the fastest growing type of entertainment in the world and reports say that most young people aged between 8-18 play video games an average of 13.2 hours per week.
Believe it or not, he kept on playing a video game for three straight days at a cyber cafe and on the third day, he was dead!
The incident took place in Taipei and the name of the video game victim, aged 32, was Hsieh.
An
attendant who went to check on him was startled to find that he was not
breathing. Hsieh was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead."Hsieh was a regular customer here and always played for consecutive days. When tired, he would sleep face-down on the table or doze off slumped in his chair. That is why we were not aware of his condition in the beginning," the attendant was quoted as saying the newspaper.
Doctors said Hsieh died of a heart attack -- another "sudden death" from prolonged computer gaming.
A police official said that cold temperatures and over-exhaustion from intense game-playing may have contributed to the cardiac failure.
"We advise people to get up and move around after every two hours of computer gaming. More patrols will be conducted to remind residents about the dangers of prolonged sitting and game-playing," the officer was quoted as saying.
On January 1, a 38-year-old man was found dead at a cyber cafe in Taipei after five days straight of video game playing, said the report.
In both cases, police said they were irked by the disinterested attitude of other cafe users.
"We went inside to cordon off the tables and had investigators there to gather evidence. Only then did the other customers realise that someone had died, but they still showed no concern and kept playing their games. We were amazed at their nonchalant attitude," a police officer was quoted as saying.
Video games are the fastest growing type of entertainment in the world and reports say that most young people aged between 8-18 play video games an average of 13.2 hours per week.
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