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11-29-2009, 07:07 PM
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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.
The parents talked to their son and asked him not to do it again. "But afterwards we found our motorcycle's gasoline was always disappearing, and one day when we found the boy had drunk a half bottle of gasoline stolen from the motorcycle, we were too shocked to say anything," the father said.
IQ dropped
They locked the motorcycle away after that but the boy began to steal gasoline from neighbors and was drinking more and more - two or three bottles at a time.
"Since my son started to drink gas, his IQ has dropped sharply and now he can't figure out simple addition and subtraction," the father said.
"Before that, he was a very smart boy, and he could even repair the television. But now he does not know the answer of 7 plus 17."
The worried parents finally took their son to hospital where they were told the boy had a mental disorder and a strong "gasoline dependence."
"The gasoline contains a lot of lead, which can do harm to people's brains. To make thing even worse, the boy is in the physical development stage, and the lead has caused serious damage to his body," Peng Houquan, a doctor from a hospital in Yibin, said.
"Transformers" is now a Hollywood blockbuster movie franchise and the second live-action film is currently breaking box office records in China.
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" has gained 400 million yuan (US$58.4 million) in the country, breaking the record set by "Titanic" 10 years ago.
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11-29-2009, 07:09 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:21 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:22 PM
| | | | Mental illness or not that's the kind of stuff I get really angry about. It's when society as a whole gets stupider and when people have absolutely no commen sense. It just makes me really sad to have to hear that a person is doing these things.
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11-29-2009, 07:22 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:23 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:31 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:38 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:38 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:44 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Eastern Connecticut | | | Is this even a real story? How do you even stomach "two or three bottles" without ummm...dieing? A 14 year old kid should have far more sense than this.
Meh...I hope no one gets angry at the Transformers products/movies/anime/whatever over this.
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11-29-2009, 07:50 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:51 PM
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11-29-2009, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound I thought that Gasoline didn't have lead in it anymore, thus the "unleaded" label.
lowsound | In the US and Canada, as well as most of Europe, auto gas is unleaded. Aviation gas is still leaded, and in some developing nations it is still leaded.
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11-29-2009, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound I thought that Gasoline didn't have lead in it anymore, thus the "unleaded" label.
lowsound | I think the kid lived outside the US or Canada, so you probably can still get leaded fuel there. |
11-29-2009, 08:12 PM
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You'd think if he could repair a TV, he'd know gasoline isn't good for you. Kids these days.... |
11-29-2009, 08:42 PM
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11-29-2009, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound I thought that Gasoline didn't have lead in it anymore, thus the "unleaded" label.
lowsound | "Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily"
Twas in China my good sir. |
11-29-2009, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by dragon574444 Is this even a real story? How do you even stomach "two or three bottles" without ummm...dieing? A 14 year old kid should have far more sense than this.
Meh...I hope no one gets angry at the Transformers products/movies/anime/whatever over this. | While reading the story I thought this as well. Perhaps I'm just in disbelief. |
11-29-2009, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by dragon574444 Is this even a real story? How do you even stomach "two or three bottles" without ummm...dieing? A 14 year old kid should have far more sense than this.
Meh...I hope no one gets angry at the Transformers products/movies/anime/whatever over this. | I think this is real.
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