Nintendo responds to Game Boy accident

[wraggster]

via gibiz (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=22036)



Nintendo of Europe has issued a statement regarding the accidental death of a young boy killed on holiday while charging his Game Boy.

"Nintendo wishes to offer its sincere condolences to the family of Connor O'Keefe," reads the statement.

"Details of the accident are currently unclear so we are unable to make any further comment at this stage," it added.

O'Keefe was killed last Saturday after unplugging the Game Boy in his hotel room in Thailand.

Police Lt. Colonel Sopol Borirok said the incident was an accident, adding: "No blame has been attached."

The story has been picked up by a number of UK newspapers, including the The Sun, The Mail and The Mirror, which splashed the story across the front page with the headline 'Killed by Game Boy.'

[Wils]

What a really tragic accident. A typical, over-the-top "won't *somebody* think of the children?! *BAN* these sick games!" response from the Dail Mail, though, which doesn't help (as per usual). The nob-ends.

From what I've been reading, *whatever* the cause, Nintendo aren't to blame one jot, despite what the Mail may say. It looks like it's probably down to a combination of the lad having wet hands and some dodgy Thai electrics or he may have just touched the prongs of the plug, although it's a massive waste of a young life either way.