An 18-year-old Brazilian gamer had to be rushed to the hospital after being shocked by lightning while holding two Super Nintendo controllers (one in his mouth) while playing the classic fighting game
Mortal Kombat. It is unclear whether God of Lightning Raiden had anything to do with the incident.
Being a good mentoring gamer, Aguinaldo César Alves had temporarily put his own controller into his mouth while attempting to show his 8-year-old cousin Junior a move with the other controller. Lighting struck him in this unnatural configuration, knocking him out completely. There were no serious injuries, but it did fudge his gaming rig:
"I'm going to see if someone can get me a new console, because this was my only video game" he declared.
So, for you fighting game fans, the move goes like this: controller in mouth + controller in hand + lightning strike = IRL Raiden Fatality
[via
Gizmodo]
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1:20 PM on 07.26.2007
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I seem to remember something gray and rectangle-like that had a name like that...
but that was decades ago... poor Brazilian kid...
Aren't fatalities usually, you know, FATAL?
Ha, but yeah, I was mostly expecting to see a story about someone having their heart ripped out of their chest. Which is possibly the most hardcore emo way to die.
BTW, brazilian chicks are not infested with diseases, like some redneck trailer park white-trash skunk girls from north. Well, at least not the brazilian chicks I know...
Glad he's alive though. That would just feed the news media...
"SNES controller may be tasty, but is it really good for your health? Pants at 11"
You guys should send him some money so he can afford a N64.
Then he'll be like the N64 kid:
NINTENDOOOOO SIXTYFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUR