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UK's Daily Telegraph reports fatal Wii Fit incident
The Telegraph reports the first Wii Fit fatality I've heard of. It's all the more notable for happening to someone young and supposedly healthy.Tim Eves was 'jogging' on the spot using the games console at home when he slumped to the floor.
His girlfriend Emma Tuck and friend Lewis Hickin, both 25, called an ambulance and tried to revive Mr Eves, but he was declared dead on arrival to hospital, despite the efforts of paramedics.Of course, it's no more Wii Fit-induced than Natasha Richardson's death was skiing induced. Sometimes people happen to die while doing other things. If you sell enough copies of a game, the odds of someone dying while playing your game increase significantly.
However, just to be safe, I hope Nintendo pulls Wii Fit from the shelves before it kills again. I'm pretty sick of seeing that thing knocking actual games off the sales lists. Nintendo should pull Wii Play as well. Just to be safe.
By Yora at 8:34 AM ON 03/31/09
As far as I know, nobody had killed other people while playing a shoter at the same time. ^^
By Bacongrease at 3:28 PM ON 03/31/09
Now wait we should apply the same rules here that we do to driving related deaths: teen in unknown condition was driving car crashed teen died alchohol is obviously to blame let's raise the drinking age. By that logic the G20 summit is obviously to blame for this death. We can't have a double standard.
By Nancy at 9:36 AM ON 04/01/09
I wonder if Jillian Michaels's Fitness Ultimatum for the Wii has killed anyone yet. I like the exercises, but I just about died from impatience trying to connect my Wii balance board. I finally gave up--and am still alive and kicking!
By Aloneatlast at 10:00 PM ON 04/01/09
Anyone notice that after he dies his gf and friend are free to be together methinks the board was purposefully sabotaged to kill the man.
@bacongrease I agree compltely but it wasn't the G20 summit it was the ending of BSG. It must immediatly be brought back forever or more deaths will occur. Countless lives hang in the balance.
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