Posted on 01/19/2015 9:22:36 AM PST by golux
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Taiwanese man who was on a three-day computer gaming binge died in an Internet cafe and went unnoticed for hours, the second such death in the area in less than a month.
The man, identified as Hsieh, went into the Internet cafe on Jan. 6 and was found motionless on a table on Jan. 8. Investigators said the man had a heart attack. His death went unnoticed for several hours as gamers continued around him.
"The CCTV footage from the Internet cafe showed that he had a small struggle before he collapsed motionless," Jennifer Wu, a police spokesperson from the Hunei district, told CNN.
Family members told police the 32-year-old man was unemployed and would often disappear for several consecutive days. Workers said they didn't notice the man had died because he would often take naps...
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I wonder how many cans of Red Bull he consumed over this three day period?
Must....resist....the urge to....post something totally sarcastic.....too late....I just did.
I’ve done that without Red Bull.
Well, it did give him wings. Not in the way he anticipated of course.
Gamers, they think they invented long hours on a computer (or gaming console)??? Ha, they have no idea what programmers do during marathon development/debug runs coming into a release...
Died in a café and went unnoticed for hours?!?!? Sounds like a lot of people in that café were obsessed with their games and not looking around.
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