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http://kotaku.com/5190168/man-dies-while-playing-wii-fit

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Man Dies While Playing Wii Fit

By Brian Ashcraft, 6:00 AM on Mon Mar 30 2009, 25,911 views
Tim Eves, 25, died on March 4 in front of his girlfriend while playing Wii Fit reports UK newspaper Telegraph.

He collapsed to the floor while jogging in place while doing Wii Fit. His girlfriend called an ambulance and tried to revive Eves (pictured), a scout leader and a rock band drummer. He was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to his mother, "We spoke to him on the phone when he was playing on the Wii machine. He told us he had just ordered himself a kebab and was sitting there with a glass of port... But a little while after he had put the phone down, he collapsed for no reason. It was completely out of the blue... They still can't come up with an answer why it happened, which is one of the reasons it is so hard to come to terms with — there was no reason for it... It is just unbelievable."

Evers was considered fit and healthy, and he might have been killed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. He had just returned from a trip to Portugal, where his parents live. He was celebrating his mother's 50th birthday.

A coroner's investigation is currently underway to determine the cause of death.








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This is just bizare, quite a tragedy for the family. I would expect closure to be hard to come by in situations like this.

I'm sorry, but SUDDEN ADULT DEATH SYNDROME?

What?

Isn't that just like saying "Oh yeah, he died of death."

Worst disease. Ever.

sA

I'm sorry, but SUDDEN ADULT DEATH SYNDROME?

Yeah, sometimes people just stop working.

http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1481570672/sudden_adult_death_syndrome.html

SADS? How....fitting.
I'm going to lock up my Wii Fit now. Just in case.

...and because it's boring.

it won't stay locked up, it will escape and come after you.
its struck once, it will strike again.

yea, SADS, i translate that into we have no idea what actually happened

greenskin lynn wrote:it won't stay locked up, it will escape and come after you.
its struck once, it will strike again.

yea, SADS, i translate that into we have no idea what actually happened

Actually its an issue where you gain an irregular heartbeat during a time of exercise then just die of sudden heart failure inexplicably because of it. It's rare but documented.

I've heard of it, just young people randomly dying.

But it's a really, really, really stupid name.

Word.

sA

smiling Assassin wrote:I've heard of it, just young people randomly dying.

But it's a really, really, really stupid name.

Word.

sA

I'm pretty sure some people said that about AIDS too....

Anung Un Rama wrote:

smiling Assassin wrote:I've heard of it, just young people randomly dying.

But it's a really, really, really stupid name.

Word.

sA

I'm pretty sure some people said that about AIDS too....

And probably SIDS.

At first AIDS wasn't used as a word like that but was called A.I.D.S. (not with full stops, just the normal letters) but it evolved over time. Same goes for SARS.