world gone bonkers

decided to casually wiki for more strange deaths..

this para says it all :

There have been a variety of well-documented deaths around the world caused directly by exhaustion from playing games for excessive periods of time. Also, there have been deaths of gamers and/or others directly related to excessive and/or compulsive playing of video games.

China

There were a number of deaths related to exhaustion from playing games for too long without food and rest. In Jinzhou, China, Xu Yan died after playing online games continuously for over 15 days during the Lunar New Year holiday. Also, an unnamed 30 year-old male died in Guangzhou, China after playing continuously for 3 days.

There have also been suicides linked to gaming. For example, "Xiao Yi was thirteen when he threw himself from the top of a twenty-four story tower block in his home town, leaving notes that spoke of his addiction and his hope of being reunited with fellow cyber-players in heaven. The suicide notes were written through the eyes of a gaming character ..."

South Korea

In 2005, Lee Seung Seop (Hangul: 이승섭) visited an Internet cafe in the city of Taegu and played StarCraft almost continuously for fifty hours. He went into cardiac arrest, and died at a local hospital. A friend reported: "...he was a game addict. We all knew about it. He couldn't stop himself." About six weeks before his death, his girlfriend, also an avid gamer, broke up with him, and he had been fired from his job for repeated tardiness.

Vietnam

Police say that Dinh The Dan, a 13 year old boy, "strangled Mai Thi Mau, 81, with a piece of rope and took 100,000 dong ($6.20) from her". Also, he "confessed that he needed money to play online games and decided to kill and rob the woman".

United States

Gregg J. Kleinmark, 24, plead "guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter". He "left fraternal twins Drew and Bryn Kleinmark unattended in a bathtub for 30 minutes, in order to go three rooms away and play on his Game Boy Advance console" while "in the mean time, the two ten-months old kids drowned".

Tyrone Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, was convicted of third-degree murder for killing his 17-month old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox. He "killed Alayiah Turman with at least five blows to the head" that "cracked the toddler's skull several times".

Ohio teen Daniel Petric shot his parents, killing his mother, after they took away his copy of Halo 3 in October 2007. In a sentencing hearing after the teen was found guilty of aggravated murder, Judge James Burge said "I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents they would be dead forever".

# whoever made that moron a judge :-/

Canada

Brandon Crisp, an Ontario 15-year-old, ran away from home on Thanksgiving Monday in 2008 after his parents took away his Xbox 360 due to falling grades and excessive play of Call of Duty 4. He was last seen alive on a bicycle trail. His body was found weeks later, about 3 miles away, by a party of hunters. An autopsy determined that he died in a fall from a tree.


death probably brings out the worst in us..
god save the world