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Headline News - Gasoline is Bad for you
Goatmon
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Now, I'll be the first to admit that kids (and many adults) do a lot of pretty stupid things, but come on.
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I'm usually pretty sympathetic to kids, especially ones that develop mental problems, but here we have a boy who literally drank himself stupid. Well, stupider.
Also I guess we can talk about people doing dumb, abusive things to themselves. Or something.
Shanghai Daily wrote: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.
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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I'm usually pretty sympathetic to kids, especially ones that develop mental problems, but here we have a boy who literally drank himself stupid. Well, stupider.
Also I guess we can talk about people doing dumb, abusive things to themselves. Or something.
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god some people are dumb
What the hell.
It reminds me of when I was six, and they warned us not to go into sewers because the Ninja Turtles didn't really live there. Apparently some kids thought they did? I don't know.
Why don't we just call you Vivixenne Funhater Mc.. McFunhaterson.
What's the point in faking a story about a kid chugging gasoline?
Transformers viral marketing?
I don't actually know if it's fake or not, the Chinese newspapers do not have this listed as a headline, but what little they do mention is that they are investigating the truth behind the story
(and before you say anything even though the SD is in English it's still run by the people who also run the Chinese-language newspapers)
I read McFunhatterson
now I want a fun hat.
That's what I'm taking from this.
TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT
and he ran at them with a can of petrol and a lighter
and they tasered him in the face
and his head burst into flames
all tasers should come with this functionality
Bet he learned his lesson.
Yao Ming!
yeah that was all over the news here
I mean you'd think I'd be terrified at the idea of someone's head bursting into flames
flames of FIRE
but honestly I couldn't stop laughing
aaahahahahahaaa
It's the image, I think. It's one of those randomly occuring yakety sax moments in life.
turns out the dude was Ghost Rider
boy were their faces red
I feel so bad for the parents and the kid, but AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
this kid actually did something about it
I say he is to be saluted
I've never seen Optimum Prime or Bumblebee drink gasoline.
That kid was dumb.
And chug that fucking shit.
pour some out for your robromies
wouldn't he be
y'know
dead?
once you get hooked you need the good stuff to keep it intense
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The point is that China still puts lead in their Goddamned gasoline.
when the population can't afford cars that run solely on unleaded fuel, that doesn't leave a lot of options, y'know?
that's some S.T.A.L.K.E.R. shit right there