"16-hour caffeine, video game binge"

[DrLeftover]

20 March

Boy hospitalized with kidney failure after 16-hour caffeine, video game binge
14-year-old Henrik Eide Dahl consumed 8 liters — about 270 ounces — of an energy drink so he could stay awake playing Call of Duty. Expected to make a full recovery, the teen says he now knows ‘it is not good to drink that much energy drink.’

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Flown to hospital in Lillehammer, he fell into a coma as his kidneys started to fail. Placed on a drip, he was kept alive by a respirator.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/boy-hospitalized-caffeine-video-game-binge-article-1.1727889#ixzz2wX313ckn

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Glad that he learned his lesson.

 

[Evil Eye]

I suppose. I wonder why it had to be learnt in the first place though...

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I suppose. I wonder why it had to be learnt in the first place though...

Because 14 year olds don't have the best judgement?

 

[Jazzy]

I suppose. I wonder why it had to be learnt in the first place though...

Because 14 year olds don't have the best judgement?

Neither do his parent/parents either obviously.

 

[Evil Eye]

Because 14 year olds don't have the best judgement?

Would you have done this as a 14-year-old?