Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

3mnkids

Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema

Karma: 230
Posts: 1649

Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

« on: July 21, 2009, 11:57:45 AM »

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200907/20090720/article_407995.htm

Quote

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.

Quote

"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.

wouldnt drinking gas kill you? I find this a little hard to believe. so he became stupid? If he was drinking gas Im going to say maybe he was stupid to begin with.


	Logged

There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far~ ruminations

ghouck

Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema

Karma: 585
Posts: 3749

Afro-Mullets RULE!

Re: Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 12:01:22 AM »

Drinking, I don't know, but there's a guy that worked for me that was Soooo scatterbrained, he could hardly speak in complete sentences, all kinds of weird things where he was highly intelligent in one area, and almost retarded in another. He went camping with some friends and they were huffing gasoline all weekend. They think he passed out with a lungful and his breathing was so shallow he basically starved his brain of oxygen just enough to make him retarded, but not enough to kill him. People don't know how bad inhalants are until they meet someone that had a bad run-in with them.

Crap like that happens up here quite a bit. There's such a culture of being intoxicated, especially out in the bush where people get REAL bored from time to time. There was a group of guys that found a barrel of Methanol (Wood Alcohol) that had washed up on some beach and they started drinking it. They all died, but the question remains: How bored do you have to be to drink something that washed up on the beach?


	Logged

Raw bacon is GREAT! It's like regular bacon, only faster, and it doesn't burn the roof of your mouth!

Happiness is green text in the "Stuff To Watch For" section.

James James: The man so nice, they named him twice.

"Aw man, this thong is chafing my balls" -Lloyd Kaufman in Poultrygeist.

"There's always time for lubricant" -Orlando Jones in Evolution

Doggett

Bustin' makes me feel good !
Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema

Karma: 983
Posts: 8415

I've seen things you people couldn't imagine...

Re: Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2009, 06:21:05 AM »

Quote from: ghouck on July 23, 2009, 12:01:22 AM

How bored do you have to be to drink something that washed up on the beach?

Oh, I don't know...

I've lived in some pretty dull places.

If I was a drinker, then, who knows, it might seem like a good idea...but then I do get some strange ideas and all of them seem pretty good at the time.


	Logged

If God exists, why did he make me an atheist? Thats His first mistake.

Jack

B-Movie Kraken

Karma: 1141
Posts: 10327

Re: Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2009, 07:08:02 AM »

I didn't know they still used leaded gas anywhere. Also surprising that it was the lead that caused him harm, I would think drinking gas would ruin the kidneys and liver, and probably eat holes in your stomach.


	Logged

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

- Paulo Coelho

BTM

Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema

Karma: 352
Posts: 2865

Re: Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2009, 09:27:15 AM »

Quote

"Before that, he was a very smart boy,

How smart could he have been if he was drinking GASOLINE to imitate a movie with GIANT ROBOTS?!?

I'm really hoping this story's fake...


	Logged

"Some people mature, some just get older." -Andrew Vachss

ghouck

Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema

Karma: 585
Posts: 3749

Afro-Mullets RULE!

Re: Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2009, 01:21:02 PM »

I wonder if he was a relatively smart kid but did PCP or Salvia and that led him to do that stupid crap. I heard of a guy who was doing PCP and almost killed himself because he was trying to dry out some pot by putting it in the air cleaner of his car with the motor running, only to huff the exhaust pipe thinking he was smoking the pot. Some people react pretty weird to drugs.