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Get this:
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1129569
Now where do I start? They should ask the mother if he RTFM.....It states clearly that it's a good idea to take a break after 30 minutes if you are inclined to get seizures or if you experience dizziness........hmmmmm
Can you say survival of the fittest? Can you say the gene pool just got a lil' chlorine? :D
All I can say was, that guy ws an idiot, plain and simple..... He didn't deserve to die, but at the very least, he should have stopped........ and the mother suing Nitendo for something they are complety covered..... THE GUY WAS 30!
Nice post.... :D
i cant believe she thinks she should be able to sue for that. it is a sad story, no question, and of course she should be upset, but suing for future loses? wtf is she thinking? it was his own fualt, plain and simple. he knew he had a condition. he played like a fiend anyways. did he take breaks? did he take medication? come on now.
And she's suing for lost income that a person who spends over 40 hours a week in front of a TV would make? Umm. okay. Nintendo should settle out of court for $.50. Which is probably generous.
It's like suing places when you spill your coffee on yourself.... Responsibility should usually stay with the subject of the activity. Besides those games give you a headache after a while anyway.
looks like another one for The Darwin Awards
remeinds me of a story heard last week...someone was trying to get OSHA to ban dual shock ps2 controllers...cause the vibrations caused numbness ...after 7-8 hours continuous play...well DUH... :rolleyes:
btw...the 2001 Darwin awards are just out...go see em...hehe...too damn funny
(11 October 2001, Tennessee) Eight freshman college students were hanging around a vacant library late one night, when they decided it would be a thrill to leap into a small opening they thought was a laundry chute.
Perhaps a few more years of college would have helped them realize that libraries don’t often have laundry chutes. It was actually a garbage chute feeding directly into an automatic trash compactor. 19-year-old Wesley was the first to jump, and he enjoyed an exhilarating three-story slide before being crushed to death in the rubbish bin below.
8 hours of continuous play and you get numbness in the hands? I'm gonna have to call in sick tomorrow to test that out......hehehehehe
just when you thought peps couldn't get any dumber >_<; hehehe only in America ;)
good post thanx KorpDeath
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It does sound sort of rediculous. First, what future earnings? He was playing it for three years, 48 hours a week... Secondly,there was a warning, he misused it.
It's sort of like suing the manufacturer of a boat. The say "If you can't swim, don't use the boat". The person does, the person falls out, and the person drowns, and then the boat manufacturer is sued for lost future potential to walk long distances on terra firma.
americans are so litigous...(and some of that is seeping up north unfortunately)...there's a competition every year - can't remember the name but basically it involves what companies have had to do to protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits...
the one i remember was this...
a maker of a baby stroller put a big yellow and black warning sign on it that read...
Please Remove Child Before Folding Stroller.
i kid you not...
Though he seems like a real idiot, I kinna know his feeling.
I usually don't play Video Game, but sometimes I do(especially during a short vacation), and when I play video game, It is hard to stop playing. Sometimes I play video game for more than 10 hours without a break. Man!! I think I'm really a lucky guy....
You laugh at all of those safety warnings and labels, but there's a reason companies put them there.
Maybe they should include N64 as a new even in the Extreme Games?
N64 in the X-games? Reminds me of the monty python sketch where there is a guy writing a novel in a stadium, in front of a crowd. "...and we're coming up on the first verb of the sentence, it's the verb 'was', and the crowd is just loving it! Looks like the adverb 'very' coming up..."
I love it. We start out with an idiot's mom sueing Nintendo and we end with Monty Python. Go figure.
Speaking of that Monty Pyton sketch, I remember watching a comedy show which had an animation of 2 guys sitting in an arena having a staring competition.
Sorry to deviate from this tragic subject.
I use my n64 as an ashtray. That flap thing works nicely. That system is dead, and so is that stupid mutha ****a. lol
|| ITS IN MY EYE! ||
How the Hell could someone play N64 for 48 hours a week on average??? N64 games don't even take a week to finish! THis guy must have been a real loser...he dies from his geekiness and then his mom comes in to give a corporation hell.... wow....
How the Hell could someone play N64 for 48 hours a week on average??? N64 games don't even take a week to finish! THis guy must have been a real loser...he dies from his geekiness and then his mom comes in to give a corporation hell.... wow....
_-_-Sanity now it's beyond me-_-_
But you're forgetting the golden rule of Monty Python: "And now for something comepletely different."Quote:
Originally posted here by KorpDeath
I love it. We start out with an idiot's mom sueing Nintendo and we end with Monty Python. Go figure.
Okay, that guy probably can even beat Zelda. Never takes a pis either. :)
and i guess there wasnt a flourecent light in the house either?
as far as the law suit mabey she remembers the lady who sued McDonalds for spilling coffee on herself
didnt dhe get 2 mill or so?
No my fav was a guy sued McDonalds because his wife went to take a bite of a burger and a hot pickle fell out and burned her lip making her unable to perform fellatio. He actually won a pretty penny for that.
this is classic; purely clasic: if you go numb playin a game you stop , plain and simple. ive gone 30- somethin hours straight on x-box not felt a thing but even i know if it dont feel good you dont do it lol.. yeah you take full responsibility every time you plug somthing into the wall never mind viewing intense rapid grahic simulation cells. the resoluton( what i mean is the blinking on your screen that you cant hardly see is alone set to trick your brain into registering sleep. the moment you turn your comp or any video game on your tricking your brain in to thinking your asleep. video games and the web are like a dream inducuced psychosis. yes the internet can be compared very significantly to a dream world...... one a person uses at his/her own risk. you must read all documentation that comes with all electronics and take it very seriously ... who was it that said " computers are simple....it just takes a genious to understand the simplicity". first rule of anyone who is intelligent is to read all ducumentation before handling anything even your toothpaste lol floride is actually poisonous to the human body ... its just to funny she thinks she has a case...it'll never happen... and what the heck is a 30 year old doin playin that much video games man cmon thats kinda lame in itself seems he got what he wished for........