Cenk Uygur
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Gamer Collapses Outside Internet Cafe After 14-Day Marathon
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June 28, 2015
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3:47Now Playing"A Chinese man who reportedly collapsed after a 14-day internet gaming marathon asked paramedics who arrived to treat him to "turn on the computer" so he could continue surfing the web.
In the latest example of the country's troubling obsession with the virtual world, the 21-year-old named only as Mr Xia collapsed onto the pavement outside an internet café in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, according to a report in the Anhui Business Review.
When paramedics arrived to take the goggle-eyed man to hospital he reportedly told them: "Leave me alone and turn on the computer for me. I want to surf the internet."
Ms Wang, a cleaning lady at the café, said she had seen the young man stagger out of the building following a two-week online binge during which he had chain-smoked, repeatedly dodged showers and eaten almost nothing."
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