The Telegraph, Britain's most passive-aggressive newspaper, is today reporting that a 25-year-old man has died playing Wii Fit, proving that "casual games" are a bad idea. Tim Eves, who has been described before the incident as "healthy," was enjoying a simulated jog when he "slumped" to the floor.
Girlfriend Emma Tuck and friend Lewis Hickon called an ambulance, but attempts to revive him failed. He was declared dead on arrival to hospital. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome has been named as a possible cause.
"We spoke to him on the phone when he was playing on the Wii machine," explains mother June Eves. "He told us he had just ordered himself a kebab and was sitting there with a glass of port."
This is a mysterious case indeed. Most people die after eating a kebab, not before.
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8:00 AM on 03.30.2009
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Sudden Adult Death Syndrome? I did not think that was a real medical problem.
So his death couldn't be attributed to his healthy diet then?
Gotta get back on the horse: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=10973
I figure it's just one of those things. They'll find something to blame it on, but people drop dead, that's what happens.
Funny that the Wii is kind of blamed, luckily i'm too lazy for WiiFit, really want a kebab now though....
Thanks for the warning!
I read that he just talked to his mother on the telephone, maybe we could blame the parents?
I fucking love kebabs.
What's worse is that the Wii Fit will probably get off with a slap on the wrist. Such as shame.
But, sure enough, there it is in the article: "The family have been told he could have been killed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome."
Seriously?
Whaddya know...it's basically sudden cardiac arrest that occurs in young people.
Then again, that line can be applied to any game related death, without the media's need to hold back..
Actually he was probably just attacked by a ghost and they attribute those things to unexplanable death syndromes all the time :P
I have to agree with you. I'd be willing to bet there is an undiscovered cause underlying the death. Perhaps some undiagnosed and/or preexisting condition.
It's sad to hear a man lost his life at such a young age, and I wish his family the best in this dark time, but seriously do we have to blame absolutely everything on videogames even after he has been delcared dead due to a well known cause?
Stupid journalists
LOL and LOL
fixed :)
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I aint taking no risks with this healthy living bullshit.
I'm pretty sad this guy is dead, I'd like to shake his hand for having such impeccable tastes. Although, on the other hand, he did own a Wii, and was using for something other than virtual console...
Oh, and *yawn* at all of the lame attempts by certain individuals to use this as yet an other excuse to bash the Wii. They have nothing better to do on a Monday, apparently.
If you'd read the article you would see that not once do the Telegraph say he died because of the Wii.
Or "We don't know what the fuck killed him, but he's dead."