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[flakfizer]

I heard it first on Leno, but I found the article on-line. The guy was just 28. Use this story as a warning to your students.



S. Korean man dies after 50 hours playing computer games
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-10 13:43


A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.

Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.

Lee was quickly rushed to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.

Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.

Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.

[sonofthedarkstranger]

This isn't the first case of this happening either.

[yemanja]

It happened to 2 other guys in the Korean forum just last week!

[Cthulhu]

Apparently fantasy and reality merged after 50 straight hours of Starcraft. The last thing he saw was...



And then the blood vessel popped in his brain.

[Bulsajo]

Was there a fan in the pc bang? Were all the windows closed?

Seriously, death by fan or death by computer game happens in how many other countries? something tells me I won't need to take my socks off (to count that high).