With the release of Pokemon GO, there are multiple reports of accidents occurring all over the world, and there’s been multiple deaths reported too! (Why am I not surprised…)
Wierdly enough, this isn’t the first time people have lost their lives due to videogames, and sadly enough, it won’t be the last time either…
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE MAY BE CONSIDERED DISTRESSING TO SOME
REVENGE IN SHANGHAI
In 2004, a Chinese gamer named Zhu Caoyuan had borrowed a virtual sword in a game called LEGEND OF MIR III from fellow gamer Qiu Chengwei and sold it in an online auction house. When Qiu found out, he was infuriated and even approached the police, who basically told him to piss off because the virtual sword didn’t exist. Soon enough, when the two met, Qiu stabbed Zhu in the heart, instantly killing Zhu….
Qiu is now behind bars in a Chinese prison and is sentenced to death….
SEE YOU IN THE AFTERLIFE
13 year old Xiao Yi was an avid player of Warcraft III, but things got out of hand when the kid jumped from the roof of a 24-story building. According to notes he left, the boy was entranced by the world of Warcraft III and hoped to reunite with his online friends in the afterlife…
HOLD YOUR WEE FOR A WII
When the WII first came out, people had gone crazy, and a young woman called Jennifer Strange had taken part in a contest by a local radio station with the WII as the prize. The competition was to see which contestant can hold his/her piss the longest. Jennifer tried a bit too hard…
She drank two gallons of water and refused to use the bathroom, which ultimately caused her death by water intoxication…..
The radio station was subsequently fined $16 million.
IF ONLY HE WOULD HAVE STOOD UP
August 2011, 20-year old Chris Staniforth was playing his favourite game, HALO REACH for hours and hours on end, and he suddenly suffered a Pulmonary Embolism, due to which he died. What is a Pulmonary Embolism? When a blood clot reaches your lungs from (in his case) your legs. The blood clot was formed due to sitting in one spot for a long time, which means if he would’ve merely stood up even once in the middle, he would’ve still been here with us today….
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
On April 2013, a man named Darrius Johnson allegedly used an Xbox 360 console as a bludgeon to end his girlfriend’s life. The reason: because she had ‘control’ of his spirit….
Johnson went on to say that he needed to sacrifice her because her astrological sign in the zodiac was Taurus. See, I KNEW all the people who believed in astrological signs were crazy!
BOREDOM AIN’T THE ONLY WAY TO DIE BECAUSE OF FARMVILLE
In October of 2010, Alexandra Tobias was suffering from a crippling Farmville addiction, when all of a sudden, the sound of her hungry, crying baby caused her to discard any remaining shred of her humanity…..
She shook her three year old son to death…
Alexandra is now facing 25 years in prison….
KILLED BY THE BLIZZARD
In August of 2005, Lee Seung Seop, a South Korean boiler repairman, who quit his job JUST to play Blizzard’s StarCraft, staked out in an internet café, and decided to play for 50 hours straight…a decision that would ultimately prove fatal….
After suffering from exhaustion and dehydration Seop collapsed from heart failure around the 40 hour mark…and died…
Videogames are extremely addictive and we’d all love to play them for hours on end, but please set a few limits, and in intense gaming sessions, don’t forget to just stand up and stretch regularly…..also, try not to lose your mind