(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A 15-year old from Columbus, Ohio was rushed to an area hospital Tuesday after collapsing during a marathon session of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that lasted between four and five days.
Tyler Rigsby was admitted to the Ohio State University Medical Center, suffering from dehydration. Hospital officials say he was released later in the day.
Local news reports say Rigsby only paused the game to use the bathroom, grab an occasional snack and take a shower. He stopped playing Tuesday to visit his aunt with his mother.
"It's like he was looking at me but he wasn't there. It was like he was looking through me," Jennifer Thompson, Rigsby's aunt, told Columbus NBC affiliate WCMH-TV. "We were talking and I heard a thump and I looked over and he just fell."
The boy's mother, Jessie Rawlins, said he turned pale and his lips "became a disturbing blue color."
"I was very scared," Rawlins added. "I thought he was going to die. He just fell over three times."
The collapse was scary stuff, but it could have been a lot worse. At least two gaming enthusiasts have died this year after marathon play sessions. Last month, an 18-year old player in Taiwan was found dead after a 40-hour marathon session with Diablo III. And in February, another Taiwanese gamer had a fatal heart attack while playing in an Internet Café in Taipei while playing online hit League of Legends. Fellow players, though, didn't notice he had died for another nine hours.
It isn't just PC players who are at risk, however. Last August, 20-year-old Chris Staniforth suffered a pulmonary embolism after a marathon session on his Xbox. The deaths -- and Rigsby's collapse -- underscore the risk of game addiction, which more and more people are becoming worried about as the industry grows.
While severe, Rigsby's dehydration was treatable, but doctors say he got lucky.
"When you're dehydrated, the amount of fluid in your entire body is decreased and that includes the fluid that's in your blood vessels," says Dr. Mike Patrick, an emergency physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital. "So you have decreased blood volume. That leads to decreased blood pressure. When your blood pressure gets to a certain point, you're unable to get enough blood up to the brain. If you're not getting enough oxygen to the brain, that can cause you to pass out and it could cause you to die."
Rigsby is home now, but don't expect to find him playing Modern Warfare 3 — or any other game — anytime soon. The family threw their Xbox 360 out.

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In before some mother with no connecting to this boy or his mother try to sue activision for this

Its not activisions fault, the plaintiff would get laughed at what would they sue for? The game being too interesting/fun to the child?

(1) The kid isn't technically alowed to play the game. (hes 15, the box says 18+)

(2) Parental controls should have been set. (pretty easy to do)

(3) Activision can't boot you off after your daily 1-2 hours of game time. (bunch of pissed people would ensue)

(4)It is the parents/ kids responsibility to know when they have had enough, any court anywhere should tell you this.

I guess stupider stuff has happened like the McDonalds coffee accident but oh well.


The real question is how in the hell could anyone play cod for 4-5 days? I get irate mad after a few games.

Whose to blame?
Parents & kid equally.

Parents: Who let's there child play for that much time without telling him anything?
Kid: why the hell don't you get up to get a drink, you have so many intermissions and other such things!

That's my thought

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Longest I've played is an all-nighter with my friends before we get utterly bored.

how the fu ck can you play on a game for that long i get bored after about 4 hours

Hence why it was sarcasm, thats why there is a smiley at the end of it...And people have gotten sued for less.

Ive played 12 hour zombie sessions, but I can still tell when my body is hungry or thirsty. I think the kid was just a retard. No offence to retards.

haha wow now thats sad for the parents and the child.

lol imagine his reaction when he finds out that his parents threw his xbox360 :lol:

Well he did not eat or drink but at least he took a shower <