Fallout 4 player saved by gaming chair after car smashes into home

Ben Rose claims he was saved by his gaming chair after a car smashed into his apartment

 

FALLOUT 4 players encounter a lot of dangerous situations in the Boston wastelands, but one gamer got more than he bargained for while playing Bethesda’s latest masterpiece.

 

Texas resident Ben Rose was enjoying a peaceful afternoon session on his Xbox One when an uninsured driver came crashing through the wall of his Irving apartment, leaving him with fractured vertebra and a sliced Achilles tendon.

However, Rose reckons that things would have been a lot worse had he not been playing Fallout 4 in a unique gaming chair, telling CBS Local: “You play in a wasteland and then your apartment turns into a wasteland.

“Cars versus people don’t really end up well. So I really thought it was over. Everybody asks were you walking in your parking lot? Or were you in your car? What do you mean she drove through your apartment?



The avid gamer was playing Fallout 4 at the time of the crash



The chair is what saved me. It pushed me out of the way. It kept me from going under the car

Ben Rose

 

“The chair is what saved me, without a doubt. That took the impact. It pushed me out of the way. It kept me from going under the car.”

An online fundraiser has been started for Rose, who has been left to pick up the bill following the driver’s blunder.

It has raised over $3000 in five days, and Rose has thanked friends, family and the random strangers who have donated to the cause.

 

Unfortunately for Rose, the driver of the car was uninsured

 

An online fundraiser has been created to help Rose pay the bills

 

He added: “Words cannot express my gratitude. So many amazing people out there making donations like this so close to Christmas.

“To those of you whom I know in person, I will find a way to repay your love. To those amazing anonymous donations to a random guy in a time of need proves there is good people in this world still.”