Couple's online gaming causes infant's death

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Couple's online gaming causes infant's death

Korean press picks up tale of tragedy when couple plays World of Warcraft to excess, infant perishes from neglect.
In a story out of Korea which is just now surfacing in the Western press, a couple in Incheon, South Korea, were arrested last week when their four-month-old daughter died after being left alone by the couple for hours. The mother and father reportedly had gone to a nearby Internet cafe, lost themselves in playing Blizzard's massively multiplayer online PC game World of Warcraft, and returned to their home only to find the infant dead from suffocation. "We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death," a policeman told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper. The couple reportedly told police, "We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day." The infant was the couple's only child.

By Staff -- GameSpot

[Matrix Heart]

They should throw them in an active bubbling volcano 

[BigBDrugStores]

hope it was thier best game ever. its going to be thier last

[MANBEARPIG.]

0WNAGE!

[Da WCC Hopar!]

PWNED!



i hate that fuckin game

[Sikotic™]

Who can be that obsessed with gaming? Jesus.

[Acgrundy]

I have said it plenty times before, video games are worse than drugs for some people.  I liked video games when I was a kid, but not anymore, dunno how you could get so submerged into something like that.  people catch a ton of flak for smoking pot, but people who play endless hours of video games don't.  just shows how ignorant people are.

[Suffice]

this reminds me of Trainspotting

['EclipZe]

buh video gaming sucks... wtf is so cool about world of warcraft lol ? I can't understand why peepz play that all day long..