playstation? play dead.

Sunder sunder at sunder.net
Thu Nov 29 07:17:46 PST 2001


Um, what the fuck does this have to do with cypherpunks?  And he could
have easily been playing on a XBox or Dreamcast.

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, mattd wrote:

> http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,3341838%255E421,00.html
> 
> Man dies playing playstation
>  From AAP
> 29nov01
> 
> A FISHING boat deckhand playing a computer game was electrocuted when a 
> huge wave smashed through the window of the trawler's wheelhouse off the 
> southern Queensland coast, according to police.
> 
> Richard Wells, 19, of Innisfail, in north Queensland, was playing a Sony 
> Playstation and sitting at a metal table when the wave smashed through the 
> cabin glass of the trawler Arrow Sea near Fraser Island yesterday.
> A police spokesman today said a post mortem examination had determined the 
> man had died of asphyxiation caused by electrocution.
> 
> "It was the combination of water and electricity and metal," he said.
> 
> "A huge wave came over the bow of the vessel and smashed through the cabin 
> windows."
> 
> The spokesman said three other crew members also suffered shocks and minor 
> burns as they attempted to help Mr Wells, who was trapped in the wrecked cabin.
> 
> The crew set off a satellite distress beacon after the accident and a 
> rescue helicopter went to the scene.
> 
> But the crew was able to get the trawler to Bundaberg under its own power, 
> where it docked early today.
> 
> Police have impounded the trawler until their investigations are complete.





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