‘Thought he was sleeping’: man, 29, dies at China internet café but demise goes unnoticed for 30 hours
- Cafe boss says very often waking a dozing customer leads to them becoming irritable and reprimanding staff
Workers at an internet cafe in eastern China did not realise for 30 hours that a 29-year-old man had died inside their facility, instead assuming he had fallen asleep.
The man visited the cafe in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, on June 1 for a long gaming session. A cafe worker called the police at 10pm on June 3 after the man, who was lying on a computer desk, did not respond when he was tapped on the arm, according to the mainland news portal Jimu News.
The worker also said in the report that the body had gone cold, which prompted him to call the police.
The man, whose identity was not released publicly, had previously left the cafe at 6am on June 2 to get breakfast.
“Based on the breakfast residuals left on the desk, he did not have lunch on June 2. He possibly died suddenly on the morning of June 2,” a police officer was quoted as saying.
The man’s brother-in-law, surnamed Chen, said the exact death time was not confirmed because his family did not permit pathologists to perform an autopsy.
