Boy Nearly Killed Trying To Cool Xbox 360

A 14 year old boy from Brevard, North Carolina was nearly killed Sunday while trying to stop his Xbox 360 from overheating.


The boy’s mother told local news that his Xbox 360 kept turning itself off after about 5 minutes. Her son had read online that he could stop it from cutting off by cooling the power supply. “I saw him put the cord on top of a box in the living room”, said the boy’s mother. “When I left to go next door he was playing a game but when I got back he was laying on his back on the floor and unconscious”.

While his mother was away the boy had taken the power supply and wrapped it in plastic and tape. In an attempt to cool it off, he submerged it into a pan of water with the cord still plugged in. The boy had regained consciousness by the time paramedics had arrived. He was taken to the Transylvania Community Hospital in Brevard where he spent the night.

*In the paper it also said that his Xbox 360 was fried and it left a burnt mark on the wall and around the outlet it was plugged into. Kids and electricity never work out very well.*

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WOW if your 360 is heating up, buy a cooler, IT'S $30 and it'll save you being electricuted. I have cooler works just dandy then again I'm not dumb enough to dip the power source in a pan if water regarudless of whether or not it's plugged in, it spells disaster either way for both you and the system. Kids these days...

What an absolute dumbass. Geez....WAIT a few minutes, gosh. Lucky for him he didn't get killed, but maybe it put a jolt of common sense into him. Hehe get it? Jolt? Lol sorry that was crap

lmao that kid is so stupid. Hopefully heating wont be a problem once I buy the 65 nanometer or w/e 360. Its suppose to be released in fall =).

O.M.G!!!!!

LOL. This kid is a dumbass. Hopefully the jolt put some sense into him haha.

wht a kid didnt he learn anything in school water + electricty = bad

I dont trust that damn cooler for anything. I used it on two different 360's and both of them bricked. And its loud. Im on my 3rd and its not connected and its doing just fine!

And as for the kid.....he had it coming....what an idiot!

I have the Pelican XBOX 360 cooler, hasn't given me any problems.

Wow Some peopel are stupid, why didnt he just buy a cooler.

wow. i mean he is 14. He should be a freashman in highschool. o why would he do that. I mean wtf. Lol.