Chinese Man Drops Dead After 3-Day Gaming Binge

[MJMANDALAY]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297059,00.html



BEIJING — A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.

The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.

Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."

China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the United States. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.

Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed "Internet addiction" in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.

[wes mantooth]

He got an advance copy of Haro 3.

[martianvirus]

Those Asians do this all the time. I hear a story like this at least once a year.

[Stalker2]

How long before "Wackbagger found dead after three day posting binge".

[martianvirus]

How long before "Wackbagger found dead after three days online".
I do that all the time, no big deal.

[Redding]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297059,00.html



BEIJING — A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.

The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.

Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."

China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the United States. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.

Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed "Internet addiction" in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.

its sad that as soon as i read the headline the only thing i could think was "it happened again"

[martianvirus]

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[LiddyRules]

its sad that as soon as i read the headline the only thing i could think was "it happened again" Sad or funny?

[Mommadeez4u]

He got an advance copy of Haro 3.

LOCK IT UP:action-sm

[burky79]

He got an advance copy of Haro 3.

its outta here...!

a walk off homer!

[MJMANDALAY]

He got an advance copy of Haro 3.

LOCK IT UP:action-sm

its outta here...!

a walk off homer!

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

[MrBogey]

He got an advance copy of Haro 3.

Them there asiatics don't play shooters. It reminds them of how they always get their asses kicked by the europeans. They like futuristic RPGs because it lets them pretend that they're important.

[CM Mark]

Them there asiatics don't play shooters. It reminds them of how they always get their asses kicked by the europeans. They like futuristic RPGs because it lets them pretend that they're important.

way to ruin the joke dummy

[Sprite]

I'd probably drop dead after 3 minutes on this.....

http://nintendonow.e-mpire.com/modules/game_media/images/7838.jpg

[LiddyRules]

Them there asiatics don't play shooters. It reminds them of how they always get their asses kicked by the europeans. They like futuristic RPGs because it lets them pretend that they're important.
I know someone who'd disagree with that

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/18/us/19cho.3.jpg

[MrBogey]

way to ruin the joke dummy

I think the joke stands fine on it's own.

[stillbornstew]

I know someone who'd disagree with that

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/18/us/19cho.3.jpg

WOW, great call back


that chinese fuck was probabaly gold farming in WoW. i see that shit all the time when i'm trying to level my toon. :arrrh: