Sayonara Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 rofl. i salute him for serving evolution by eliminating himself from the gene pool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 5, 2003 Author Share Posted February 5, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PogoC7 Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Must have been a very entertaining Webcam. A guy swaying back and forth until passing out. I wish I got to watch. Not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Anyone got a cached copy of the log? The page was taken down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED FIRE COW Posted February 6, 2003 Share Posted February 6, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 6, 2003 Author Share Posted February 6, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 6, 2003 Author Share Posted February 6, 2003 Latest update is a new site from his brother: Linkage is here http://www.workaphobe.com/archive.asp?UID=166 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted February 6, 2003 Share Posted February 6, 2003 Here faf: log1 log2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted February 6, 2003 Share Posted February 6, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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