The Sun leads with 'Death by Xbox' cover story
With a headline of ‘Death by Xbox’, the paper has pushed to the fore the tragic case of Chris Staniforth, a 20-year-old who died of deep-vein-thrombosis (DVT).
The report directly links the DVT to Staniforth spending up to 12 hours playing Xbox games – his father said he was “sucked in” to online multiplayer for games like Halo.
DVT is the formation of a blood clot that develops often without symptoms and is most commonly occurring in immobilised hospital patients or regular smokers - but is also linked to long-haul flights and travel, where it occurs due to lack of movement in transit.
The Sun throws in that “in recent years it has been increasingly been seen among those who sit for long spells in front of computer screens”. As tragic as this story is, that’s an odd claim to throw in when it can occur in anyone immobilised or still for a long period of time. (And let’s not forget an Xbox needs to be plugged into a TV, not a computer.)
Staniforth’s father David said he is now launching a campaign to raise awareness of DVT and video games – but added he isn’t levelling criticism at Microsoft.
“Kids all over the country are playing these video games,” he told The Sun. “They don’t realise it could kill them.
“I’m not for one minute blaming the manufacturer of Xbox. It isn’t their fault that people use them for so long. But I want to highlight the dangers that can arise.
“Playing on it for so long is what killed him – and I don’t want another child to die.”
A statement from Microsoft said: “We recommend gamers take breaks to exercise as well as make time for other pursuits.”
The report comes just a few days after The Sun published a report about an asthmatic teenage girl who suffered “a heart attack while playing on her Xbox”, and four months after it ran a widely-mocked report about how the Nintendo 3DS poses a health-risk and made players ill or dizzy.
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PokjbvPosted:
"his father said he was sucked in to online multiplayer for games like Halo"
It not like microsoft is putting a gun to your head and saying play this game for hours.
It not like microsoft is putting a gun to your head and saying play this game for hours.
-Ranger-Posted:
Should of got his fat ass off the couch... it's his fault. he was 20... why the hell was he with his parents anyhow...
OasisPosted:
Lol 'child' *looks at picture* he's 20 for gods sake.
Not convinced mate, how about you were a dead beat still living with your parents. Eating trash and playing games too much.
It's sad that he died but DVT can be made worse with a unhealthy lifestyle. His fault, not Xbox.
I play tones, but incorporate an active lifestyle into my schedule. It's not hard, stupid things will happen to stupid people.
Not convinced mate, how about you were a dead beat still living with your parents. Eating trash and playing games too much.
It's sad that he died but DVT can be made worse with a unhealthy lifestyle. His fault, not Xbox.
I play tones, but incorporate an active lifestyle into my schedule. It's not hard, stupid things will happen to stupid people.
-TRiiXxy-Posted:
i work 8 hours a day on all weekdays then i come home then i come home have 11 hours xbox with a toilet and food break then 5 hours sleep, then the weekends i spend the saturday with my nipper and saturday night i will play for 15 hours then sleep till 8am sunday morning then im on it by 8.30am and i get of about midnight and im not dead yet so w.e.... killer xbox's load of shite
hellohi1995Posted:
anything could kill someone, he just happened to die from a DVT not a killer xbox..
TheMoDiiFii3rPosted:
wtf did the xbox do?
did the xbox killed him? No
dumb*ss people this days...
Death By xbox is a stupid headline...
did the xbox killed him? No
dumb*ss people this days...
Death By xbox is a stupid headline...
CarbonixPosted:
BIGSARGE143 I think Xbox should shutdown the Xbox LIVE Servers for at least an hour every 4 to 5 hours. that way. people would have no choice but to get up and do something besides sitting.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read, please for love sake of humanity, kill yourself.
epraiderPosted:
BIGSARGE143 I think Xbox should shutdown the Xbox LIVE Servers for at least an hour every 4 to 5 hours. that way. people would have no choice but to get up and do something besides sitting.
That would be a bad idea. What if someone, who had a sort of busy schedule, were they only have certain amounts of freetime, and those happen to be on the same time as the shutdown. There would be massive complaints. Now, building on that, If someone gamed for 4-5 hours straight, they could be disable for around 45 minutes. Thats understandable.
epraiderPosted:
Thats a bunch of bullshit. Even if he got up to get food(he obviously has a weight problem) this wouldn't of happened. It s his parent's fault for not monitoring his gaming. This was probably brought on my a pre existing medical condition that was unknown at the time, and that was amplified by The 12+ hours of straight gaming.
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