Brandon Vedas, 21, died online trying to impress his IRC buddies in a 'shroom channel by consuming a cocktail of various drugs that was far beyond lethal doses.

 

Users in the channel egged him on, encouraging him to take different drugs for the webcam, while watching the 'show' on his website.

 

BBC article is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2724819.stm

 

IRC logs from the channel are here: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/oea/logs.html

Update (fafalone):And here, the page originally linked to was shut down; I recovered the partial log from google caches, but if anyone has the complete thing that was originally posted, send it to me or post an address.

rofl.

 

i salute him for serving evolution by eliminating himself from the gene pool!

 

I wasn't going to say it first.

 

As much as I'm glad justice finally hit an idiot publically, I feel deep sympathy for his parents who will no doubt find dozens of silly ways to blame themselves.

Must have been a very entertaining Webcam. A guy swaying back and forth until passing out. I wish I got to watch.

Not really.

Anyone got a cached copy of the log? The page was taken down.

Why is it that people get off on watching things like that. This must be why Faces of Death was so popular.

 

poor guy he just wanted to be noticed. I do think this is not entirely his fault though. I do belive that we make our own decisions but we can become victims of circumstance.

There might be something here http://pages.sbcglobal.net/oea/ripper.html but I can't check it as the stupid content filter at work is blocking the page, because apparently it's all about sex. Which it isn't.

Latest update is a new site from his brother:

 

Linkage is here http://www.workaphobe.com/archive.asp?UID=166

Here faf:

 

log1

 

log2

Yeah I got those from the Google cache... they were taken down but i see they're back up... see also http://fafalone.hypermart.net/ripper.html for a more complete log (thx spny ;x).. note: file is 600kb