Man’s death goes unnoticed for 30 hours in Chinese internet cafe

In a bizarre incident, staff at an internet cafe in Wenzhou, China, failed to notice that one of their customers had died and instead assumed he was simply sleeping. According to the South China Morning PostThe man, whose identity remains unknown, had begun an extended gaming session on June 1. The cafe’s employees thought the man was fast asleep and did not bother to wake him up.

However, on the evening of June 3 at 10 p.m., a cafe employee tried to wake him up but found him unresponsive and his body cold. The alerted employee contacted the police, who confirmed his death.

“Based on the breakfast leftovers on his desk, he did not eat lunch on June 2. He may have died suddenly on the morning of June 2,” a police officer said, according to Jimu News.

The man’s brother-in-law, surnamed Chen, said the exact time of death could not be confirmed because his family did not allow pathologists to perform an autopsy.

He also interviewed the cafe staff and expressed his frustration that the death had gone unnoticed for so long.

“He was sitting in an open area and not in a closed enclosure. There should have been staff checking on him and noticing his strange behavior,” Chen said.

The manager of the internet cafe said the man appeared healthy and was a regular customer who usually stayed for six hours at a time. He added that gamers regularly fell asleep between their gaming sessions and the two staff members on duty at the time did not notice that the man had been “sleeping” for so long.

“The staff thought he was resting so they didn’t wake him up. When we wake up a sleeping customer, they often get irritated and scold us,” he said.

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