Kid Dies From A....GameBoy.

[souljaa]

A BOY of seven was electrocuted on holiday while charging up the Game Boy he got for Christmas.

Connor O'Keefe was unplugging the charger in his hotel room in Thailand.

Distraught mum Kathleen Curry, 45, who found his lifeless body on the floor, said: "We're all devastated." Kathleen, who bought the charger in Thailand, said: "My son was only unplugging his Game Boy - he does it all the time at home.


"There should be some kind of warning about the different electrical currents you get abroad because this would not have happened in England."


She said Connor was aware of the dangers of electricity and denied claims he plugged in the charger while still wet from swimming.


Police described Connor's death at the Sunset Beach Hotel in Phuket on Saturday as a tragic accident.


They insisted the complex, rebuilt after the 2004 tsunami disaster, was not to blame.


Yesterday the family, from Walworth, South East London, paid tribute to their "wonderful child".


Connor's cousin and godmother Chanelle said: "We're just devastated. He loved his holidays and computer games were his passion. He was absolutely brilliant at them."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_head...name_page.html

[Drake14]

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wow that really sux :/

Glad i dont have a gameboy.

[souljaa]

o_O

wow that really sux :/

Glad i dont have a gameboy.

Haha..He shouldn't have unplugged it while he was still wet....But I guess he was 7..so..

[Drake14]

It says they found his lifeless body on the floor...The parents weren't in the room with him?

Who leaves a 7 year old in a hotel room alone?

[souljaa]

It says they found his lifeless body on the floor...The parents weren't in the room with him?

Who leaves a 7 year old in a hotel room alone?

True.. :S...Or maybe since he came back from swimming..they were outside and he just came in to unplug his gameboy.

[Drake14]

True...

Could have just been a freak accident...

Maybe the parents weren't looking or whatever and he unplugged it, they turned around and saw him....i guess only the parents really know.

[aosmallan]

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wow that really sux :/

Glad i dont have a gameboy.

Haha..He shouldn't have unplugged it while he was still wet....But I guess he was 7..so..

She denied claims that he was wet, which means someone speculated that the boy could have been wet from the pool, or someone saw the boy entering the room after coming from the pool, no one knows for sure, according to the article at least.

It's sad that he died, but the mother saying that there should be a warning that electrical devices and outlets have different voltages in different countries is a terrible justification. There are voltage measurement and requirements on every AC adapter to a device. It was her job to know whether or not she had the right charger... If you're going abroad it's almost a complete given that voltages and sockets are going to be way different...

[Twigz]

That's crazy...great parenting on their part, eh? Totally irresponsible...if they have child labor laws in Thailand, they should do something about that...

[LiNuX]

uh oh, games can kill u now? well that sux only north america uses 110 volt i think, asia and europe is all 220 volt, much higher, i was actually shocked once when i was really little, i still remember, i was sitting and i put my finger in the wall socket lol, it was a little zap, but it hurt, i never did it again cuz my parents did yell at me later on when i told them lol

[souljaa]

uh oh, games can kill u now? well that sux only north america uses 110 volt i think, asia and europe is all 220 volt, much higher, i was actually shocked once when i was really little, i still remember, i was sitting and i put my finger in the wall socket lol, it was a little zap, but it hurt, i never did it again cuz my parents did yell at me later on when i told them lol

LOL....Good going