Gotta load up.
Posted on 07/30/2011 9:56:29 AM PDT by SanFranDan
A mourning father has sent out a plea to other parents to protect their children from the dangers of playing computer games.
Blood clot victim, Chris Staniforth, 20, died after spending up to 12 hours at a time playing on his Xbox.
The gaming enthusiast suffered a blockage to his lungs when he developed deep vein thrombosis – commonly associated with passengers on long haul flights where they are relatively immobile for hours on end.
Chris’ heartbroken father, David told The Sun, ‘As a parent you think playing computer games can’t do them any harm because you know what they are doing.
‘Kids all over the country are playing these games for long periods - they don’t realise it could kill them.’
Chris, an avid player of popular games such as Halo collapsed after an interview at a JobCentre while telling a friend he’d been experiencing peculiar pains in his chest.
He explained how he was woken in the night by a ‘strange feeling’ in his chest and that his heart rate was incredibly low, although this returned to normal and he fell back to sleep.
During the conversation outside the JobCentre David explained the moment Chris started to suffer:
Before he collapsed outside a JobCentre, Chris was offered a place to study Game Design at Leicester University
‘He dropped a packet of chewing gum and as he picked it up, he jolted back and began to spasm.’
Chris’ friend frantically called an ambulance but paramedics arriving on the scene failed to save him.
Yesterday, a coroner confirmed DVT as the cause of death despite the 20-year-old having no history of ill health or underlying medical conditions
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To win a Darwin award, you either have to take yourself out or render yourself unreproducable through activities that are obvious in their ability to do that.
On the other hand, playing video games for hours makes you usually repugnant to the female gender, so you do accomplish the objective, through the female’s inability to find it attractive for males to play video games for hours on end.
So overall, I stand corrected.
Gotta load up.
I am still using that system in my 40s.
My son is a Halo fan, plays it on-line with friends. He uses a wireless hand/head set and moves around quite a bit. Read him the article; going to make sure he does more physical activity, just to be safe.
I have never understood the attraction of what I would call “solitary games.”
I can remember as a teenager being almost repelled by my buddies who spent their money and time playing pinball.
My kids own no video games at all, and they watch relatively little TV. They have tire swings, outdoor toys, fishing poles, balls, books, bikes, running shoes, and friends. I have no problem with them playing video games when they visit friends, but I’m happy to see that they would rather go outside. Mission accomplished.
Look what this kid missed by sitting on his arse.
That looks suspiciously like XKCD. :D
I ate 12 pieces of bacon for breakfast this morning and regretted it about 3 minutes later. Should’ve stopped at 6, but it’s just so tasty.
The Marines tend to keep you from sitting on your a$$ for so long that you throw a blood clot...
It might well be. I’ve long since forgotten where I stole it.
I guess his XBox didn’t have Kinect?
They did a very similar story on Spike TV’s “1,000 Ways to Die.”
I limit my XBox time to a couple hours a day....except when its double-points weekend on Call of Duty....
At that age I was racing flat track motorcycles. I’m still
alive. (kind of beat up, but alive)
Well over twice his age and my record is 31 straight hours on a comparable game. Unspeakably sad for the father and the boy though.
Heh. Yep.
Same here. I joined the Marine Corps right after I graduated high school and by the time I was 20, I had already been on my own for nearly three years. The only video games I ever had time for was a little Pac-Man or Space Invaders at the e-Club and as each game was a quarter, I couldn’t afford to get very good at either!
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