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Boy hospitalized with kidney failure after 16-hour caffeine, video game binge
www.nydailynews.com ^
| Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 10:35 AM
| By Lee Moran
Posted on 03/20/2014 2:25:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
14-year-old Henrik Eide Dahl consumed 8 liters — about 270 ounces — of an energy drink so he could stay awake playing Call of Duty. Expected to make a full recovery, the teen says he now knows ‘it is not good to drink that much energy drink.’
A Norwegian teen was hospitalized with severe kidney failure after a 16-hour, caffeine-fueled Call of Duty video game binge.
Henrik Eide Dahl, 14, reportedly collapsed in his high school's cafeteria last month at the end of the marathon session.
He'd consumed an astonishing 8 liters of powerful energy drinks to keep himself going.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: energydrinks
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To: Red Badger
Mom and Dad need to take away his game and not allow those drinks in the house.
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posted on
03/20/2014 5:21:05 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: SevenofNine
When I was in college all we had was No-Doz
I wrote many a term paper popping those things.
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posted on
03/20/2014 5:37:35 PM PDT
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COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: SevenofNine
Was Jolt back in the mid to late 90’s?
To: Married with Children
Came out in 1980s I remember drinking it LOL!
That first Energy drink that I KNOW OF
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posted on
03/20/2014 6:18:10 PM PDT
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SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: COBOL2Java
OMGGG I thought that was legend seriously maybe I was too young for that LOL!
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03/20/2014 6:18:42 PM PDT
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SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: SevenofNine
I lived on Jolt cola and TAB cola in college.
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posted on
03/20/2014 7:06:31 PM PDT
by
Gefn
(All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge; their humans can't stop crying)
To: COBOL2Java
“I’M SO EXCITED! I’M SO EXCITED! I’M...SO...SCARED!”
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posted on
03/20/2014 7:11:11 PM PDT
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scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
To: COBOL2Java
When I was in college all we had was No-Doz I believe there was also the competitor, Vivarin.
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posted on
03/20/2014 8:30:54 PM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Red Badger
16 hours is nothing for a teen. Hardly a “marathon” gaming session.
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posted on
03/20/2014 10:11:05 PM PDT
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Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Gefn
You remember that HUH LOL!
Jolt is one that got me through High School exams LOL!
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03/21/2014 2:41:53 PM PDT
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SevenofNine
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