Top 10 deaths caused by video games

[Forum]

I was watching tv and this sorta series came up and showed one of them and i looked online for more. Its pretty messed up.

http://www.spike.com/articles/id98jf/the-top-10-deaths-caused-by-video-games

[Mystery]

Except that most of these(if not all) are preventable.  And making a 'Top 10 Deaths From X' list is in incredibly bad taste.

Also, a quote from a thread about this article.

Murdering someone with a video game controller is not a video game related death. If I bashed someone's face in with a hard-bound book, it wouldn't be a reading related death.

That's just plain stupid. It's even worse because they listed it as their number TWO choice.

/shakes head

[crozier]

Yep I agree with Mystery, wholeheartidly.
I wouldn't blame video games, honestly. The people who did those acts are most likely sociopaths. The fact that video games urged these people to say kill your parents, is unlikely true. Im sure these kids would have killed somebody even if they never played a second of video games in there life. Your actions are not consequences of your hobbies, but are caused by YOU.
After watching Kill Bill, or Kick Ass, or playing Halo, it does not make me (or frankly anyone) want to shoot somebody in the head.
As for the suicided, they aren't any different then normal suicides.

[Yankyal]

Yep I agree with Mystery, wholeheartidly.
I wouldn't blame video games, honestly. The people who did those acts are most likely sociopaths. The fact that video games urged these people to say kill your parents, is unlikely true. Im sure these kids would have killed somebody even if they never played a second of video games in there life. Your actions are not consequences of your hobbies, but are caused by YOU.
After watching Kill Bill, or Kick Ass, or playing Halo, it does not make me (or frankly anyone) want to shoot somebody in the head.
As for the suicided, they aren't any different then normal suicides.

true dat. It's a good thing our Supreme Court saw through people trying to blame the actions of !@#$ed up people on videogames.