Man Dies Playing Video Games




(Taipei, Taiwan) After going unnoticed for an estimated nine hours sitting at a computer terminal playing video games, a man was found dead.

The body of Chen Rong-yu, 23, was found slumped in a chair at a cafe in New Taipei city on Tuesday night, according to local reports. He was rigid on a chair with his hands stretched out towards the keyboard and mouse, police said. He had been playing League of Legends.

Mr Chen's body had apparently been sitting there for up to nine hours without any of the 30 other people in the cafe noticing. He was last seen by a waitress talking on the phone around noon on Wednesday.

An initial police investigation found he might have died of a cardiac arrest triggered by low temperatures. The man's family said he had been treated for a heart problem in September of last year.

In any event, the poor guy died and nobody noticed for nine hours.