Spike TV's Top 10 Deaths Caused by Video Games

[StrykerSwat]

Ever wonder how many deaths were caused by video games

or try to make a top list

Well here it is

 

Spike TV has made a Top 10 Deaths Caused by Video Games

Some are just messed up

some are really out of the league

and some...well some are just damn sad

 

Im just gonna give out 10-5 of the list, and u can check later on the last 5 of the list anyway here is the list

 

10. Korean Killed by Starcraft (2005)

 

Starcraft is an online multiplayer game in which you command a fleet of space warriors and are plunged into battle with other legions of warriors controlled by other real people. It’s so popular that professional gamers (yes, they actually exist) can make upward of $100,000 a year playing this game. It’s an extremely addicting game and, when the man identified only as “Lee” succumbed to death, authorities said that it was because of “heart failure stemming from exhaustion.”

 

9. 18-Year-Old Killed by an Arcade

 

Peter Burkowski was an 18-year-old “A” student that stopped into an arcade at about 8:30 p.m. one Saturday. He set a couple high scores in the Berzerk machine, turned away from it to pay some attention to another game, and as soon as he put his quarter in, collapsed from a heart attack. The autopsy revealed scar tissue in Peter’s heart that effectively made him a “ticking time bomb” set off by a video game which apparently increased his blood pressure and heart rate dramatically.

 

8. Vengeance Killing for Virtual Sword

 

Qiu Chegwei lent his Dragon Sabre for the online game Legend of Mir 3 to his friend Mr. Zhu Caoyuan. Mr. Zhu being a resourceful a-hole, sold that thing for about $675. Mr. Chegwei, though, being a bigger a-hole and less resourceful, stabbed the hell out of his friend with a very real knife, killing him. Mr. Chegwei is currently serving a life sentence, which could be suspended to 15 years for good behavior.

 

7. Everquest Suicide

 

This story is up for some debate. But the fact is that then-21-year-old Shawn Woolley played hours of the online game Everquest before fatally shooting himself while sitting in front of his computer. His mother found him with notes related to the game strewn about the room, but none of them offered specific evidence for his motivation.

 

6. 13-Year-Old Commits WoW Suicide

 

Xiao Yi was 13 when he jumped from the top of a 24-story building. The note he left behind for his parents was written from the point of view of a video game character. Further, the note detailed his wish to meet three of his gaming friends in the afterlife. His parents asked him, at one point, about his addiction. He replied that he “had been poisoned by games and could no longer control himself.”

 

 

You can check the rest of the list at

http://www.spike.com/blog/10-deaths-caused-by/74056?page=1&numPerPage=1

[Psyche]

Obvious mental illness.

[Guest barackobama]

Very interesting indeed....

[Sarah]

maniacs... comitting murder and suicide over a game?!

[Determined2Win]

Might want to put a [NSFW] on this, considering it's OTF.

 

On Topic: When a video game has that much control over your life, it just shows what kind of a society we really live in.

 

-D2W

[SilentGuns]

 

10. Korean Killed by Starcraft (2005)

 

Starcraft is an online multiplayer game in which you command a fleet of space warriors and are plunged into battle with other legions of warriors controlled by other real people. It’s so popular that professional gamers (yes, they actually exist) can make upward of $100,000 a year playing this game. It’s an extremely addicting game and, when the man identified only as “Lee” succumbed to death, authorities said that it was because of “heart failure stemming from exhaustion.”

 

6. 13-Year-Old Commits WoW Suicide

 

Xiao Yi was 13 when he jumped from the top of a 24-story building. The note he left behind for his parents was written from the point of view of a video game character. Further, the note detailed his wish to meet three of his gaming friends in the afterlife. His parents asked him, at one point, about his addiction. He replied that he “had been poisoned by games and could no longer control himself.”

 

 

 

Only shows that blizzards games give you a killer addiction...I read about the kid who killed himself after playing WoW , thats just sick. His parents wanted to sue Blizzard.

[Omar]

That's just sad...

 

It's a fucking game..

[Justice...]

4. Man Kills Toddler Over Broken Xbox

 

 

Tyrone Spellman, 27, played long hours on his Xbox. So, when his 17-month-old daughter pulled on some cords and tipped the Xbox to the ground, breaking it, he become completely enraged. He struck her with such force that it “cracked her skull several times.” The autopsy, too, revealed a broken arm that was at least two weeks old which social workers had failed to identify previously.

 

 

 

what the... fuck???!?!?!?