Teen drowns in memepool
Posted by Matthew on Friday December 31, 2004 @02:52PM
from the too-much-of-a-good-thing dept.
Matthew writes: A Colorado Springs boy was found dead after having drowned in a memepool Thursday night or early Friday morning.
According to friends, Ryan Lanson discovered the website memepool.com late Monday and had decided to read through it from the beginning. He was found dead at his keyboard while reading Will Wheaton’s Weblog, indicating that he’d made it from September 15th, 1998 to March 7th, 2002, in just three days.
“He was close, and through the worst of it. If he had just lasted another two years, he would have made it. Oddly enough, the cause of death was dehydration. In his drive to power through six years of the web’s most bizarre content, he forgot to eat, drink, or sleep. It only takes a few days for that to kill a person,” said the lead crime scene investigator.