'Fit and healthy' Brit dies playing Wii
25-year-old collapses during Wii Sports session
A young man has died after collapsing while playing Wii Fit.
Tim Eves, 25, from Hopton-on-Sea, was said by his girlfriend to have been jogging on the spot when he suddenly slumped to the floor.
Although an ambulance was called, and Eves was rushed to hospital, he was declared dead on arrival.
Eves' mother said she had spoken to him while he was playing on the Wii, but that “a little while after he had put the phone down, he collapsed”.
The unlucky gamer is said to have been fit and healthy, and – although an official cause of death has yet to be established – it’s been reported by several online news sources that he could have been killed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome - essentially a heart attack without the usual preliminary symptoms. ®
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meh
"Just hope you've passed on your genes before hand..." Onan would be proud.
--Glenn
Sadly, there's no IT angle.
As your final paragraph notes, people *do* sometimes just drop dead. Go to any running club and they'll have numerous such stories of former members.
Having said that, no doubt the Luddite faction of the Daily Wotsit will be up in arms that such dangerous technology is sold for entertainment value to the nation's vulnerable (overweight) children.
Being picky...
..."have been fit and healthy"
Cleary not, otherwise he wouldn't of dropped dead.
Whos gonna take the Fault?
Yeah, guess what, Gaming now not only causes People to go Berserk, it causes Sudden Death. Now It only has to take the blame for spontanius Combustion and we´re all set for the big Nintendo Witchhunt.
meh
meh life sucks, then you die. Just hope you've passed on your genes before hand, or failing that watched enough porn and drunk enough booze not to care.
I love it when healthy people die out of the blue.
