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By: Bill Selles - Published January 05, 2007 at 7:58 AM EST - Writer Archive
A seven-year-old boy was killed in Thailand when he was electrocuted, apparently unplugging his Game Boy.
Reports are coming across the wire and on major gaming sites that the young boy, Connor O'Keefe, who killed Saturday in Thailand while on vacation, may have been a victim of his video game system. The boy, from England, had been swimming in the hotel pool before returning to the room. When he went to unplug the Game Boy charger from the wall, he was electrocuted. It is assumed at this time that the boy was still wet and water got into the electrical outlet.

The initial police report indicated that the boy simply was electrocuted when he touched the outlet due to being wet, but there is not growing speculation that the boy was attempting to unplug his Game Boy at the time. According to a statement by Nintendo issued to IGN, ""Nintendo wishes to offer its sincere condolences to the family of Connor O' Keefe. Details of the accident are currently unclear so we are unable to make any further comment at this stage."

Expect more updates as they become available.

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oh, well when i clicked this i thought a gameboy actually managed to kill a boy. Turns out it was the electric socket.
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damn ;/
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sounds like boy kills himself unrelated to gameboy
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when i saw the topic i thought to myself how the hell does a gameboy kill someone? dropping it off the empire state building?? still sad though :/
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same here #4, cant really blame nintendo if the kid was wet though
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Freaks me out :O I should dry my hands when my mom tells me to now =\
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#6 that would be a good idea - or just stop peeing on them so much =)
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LOL i thought like som1 threw a gameboy at som1s head or something but yea its not like it was the gameboys fault on this one
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pretty sure he got himself killed by mixing water and a wall outlet~
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Sad, he was only 7 :/

Not the gameboys fault though :o
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agreed #10
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Yeah it's not Nintendo's fault, it could of been anything he could of unplugged, for example a toaster or a hairdryer, it wouldn't be the manufacturers fault..

That's like pulling the trigger and shooting somebody in real life with a gun and saying it's the gun's fault, just doesn't work.
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like everyone else i thought an actual gameboy killed the kid but he was just being dumb and didnt dry himsefl off before playing his gameboy. guess the kid couldnt hold his excitment or something but you really cant blame Nintendo for something like this.
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you always hear about this danger but never actually hear of anyone getting killed by it.
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do parents not teach anything to kids anymore? where were his parents anyway?
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It seems that there is another game-related kill. 2 man have stolen a PS3, police knew them and went to their house where they were playing PS3. When opening the door, the guy had the SIXAXIS (ps3 controller) in the hand, police believed it was a gun and shoot him. Its reported on a french website.
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yeah i heard a woman died for a wii http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/13/woman-d..
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nice
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nice
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gameboy good :D
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i have a gba-sp
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LOL :)
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Not good, not good at all. It was probably one of them copy-gameboys that they produce overthere.
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#23 i like gba man, but is true
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#10 got it
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