A 32-year-old man was found dead in an Internet cafe in
Taiwan after a marathon three-day gaming binge, the island's second death of an
online gamer this year. The man, surnamed Hsieh, entered the cafe in Kaohsiung,
Taiwan's second largest city, on January 6, Jennifer Wu, a police spokesperson
from the Hunei district precint told CNN. An employee found him motionless and
sprawled on a table at 10 a.m. on January 8 and he was rushed to hospital,
where he was pronounced dead from cardiac failure, she added. "He has been
unemployed for a long time, and internet cafes were the only place he could go
to," she said. "His family said he would disappear for two to three
days on end." Police first released details of the case late last week. It
is not known exactly how long the man lay dead in the Internet cafe but police
said his corpse had begun to stiffen so he must have been dead for several
hours before they arrived on the scene.
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This is crazy that there actually so many people out there
that go through gaming sessions and don’t do anything but the gaming. This man
went 10 hours being dead before someone even noticed. It’s such a sad habit
that has led to many deaths.
This is really sad:/ how do you even overcome something like this?
ReplyDelete-Kennedi Mayes
That's tragic. I understand gaming can be fun but health should always be top priority.
ReplyDeleteThat's really upsetting. It would be nice if other people from the gaming community could support one another and keep something like this from happening. :/
ReplyDelete- Hannah Kalan 6th period
That's horribly tragic that he died in this way. I hope that incidents like this are prevented in the future.
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