[LINK] Man dies - a hoax?

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Andy - add this to the list:

http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=3102000-134215
...Korea, March 2000. 
This one includes a very similar padding in the last paragraph about the
huge number of Internet cafes in South Korea...

Ignoring the 1981 reference for a moment (because there's no citation), the
current urban myth seems to run from early 2000 to late 2002, so far. It's
always located "somewhere else". To be fair to the SMH, it was just a mat
from Associated Press, but don't their "urban myth" antennae work at all?

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Farkas [mailto:andyf@speednet.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 08:45
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> Subject: [LINK] Man dies - a hoax?
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> Yesterday's SMH: "Man dies after playing computer games non-stop"
> 
>  <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/10/1034061260831.html>
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> Having heard this story before, a quick google search brings us to:
> 
>  <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_382974.html>
> 
> dated just over a year ago. Further googling (a new verb for the
> dictionary?) suggests it has happenned as far back as 1981:
> 
>  <http://www.cs.colby.edu/~rjones/courses/cs397/fall2000/history.html>
> 
> So, I was wondering if this is actually a hoax. Food for 
> thought I guess.
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