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Boy drank gasoline to be like the Transformers
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Sabrblade at 2009-07-21 9:32 pm
A ShanghaiDaily.com article reveals that a 14-year old Chinese boy drank gasoline for FIVE YEARS to be like the Transformers, whom he's idolized since he was young. He eventually developed a great drop in IQ points and dependency for gasoline:
"A 14-YEAR-OLD boy drank gasoline for five years to obtain 'energy' - just as his idols 'Bumble Bee' or 'Optimus Prime' do in 'Transformers,' the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
After the boy, in Yibin City, southwest Sichuan Province, had watched the animated TV series, he began to drink gasoline to become a 'valiant fighter' like 'Optimus Prime,' his father told the newspaper.
'He began to drink gasoline five years ago, when we found he liked smelling lighter fuel,' he said.
The boy's mother owned a grocery stall, selling small goods such as lighters.
In 2004, she often found lighters missing two or three days after she'd bought them. She later found that her son had been stealing them..."
Read the article in full here.
"A 14-YEAR-OLD boy drank gasoline for five years to obtain 'energy' - just as his idols 'Bumble Bee' or 'Optimus Prime' do in 'Transformers,' the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
After the boy, in Yibin City, southwest Sichuan Province, had watched the animated TV series, he began to drink gasoline to become a 'valiant fighter' like 'Optimus Prime,' his father told the newspaper.
'He began to drink gasoline five years ago, when we found he liked smelling lighter fuel,' he said.
The boy's mother owned a grocery stall, selling small goods such as lighters.
In 2004, she often found lighters missing two or three days after she'd bought them. She later found that her son had been stealing them..."
Read the article in full here.
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