Kid Drinks Gasoline To Be More Like the Transformers

[Masa]

Kid Drinks Gasoline To Be More Like the Transformers

This is one of those stories that gets passed from one friend to another by e-mail and twitter, and quickly spreads around offices. It almost sounds like something you’d read in The Onion, but the deeper you get into the story, the more serious it becomes. Who knows if its even true? The story is being reported by a bunch of international newspapers, which would lead you to believe so (but I’m still skeptical). Read on..

Shanghai Daily is reporting that a 14-year-old from Yibin in Sichuan, China has been drinking Gasoline for the last five years to become a “valiant fighter” like Optimus Prime. The youngster first saw the animated Transformers tv series when he was nine years old, and was so impressed that be “that he began drinking fuel on a daily basis to “obtain energy” and become a mighty warrior like the Transformers.”

The kids parents scolded the kid after he started smelling the gas in cigarette lighters, and later began to notice that the gasoline in their motorcycle had begin disappearing. They caught the kid in the act and locked the motorcycle away, but the boy started stealing gasoline from unsuspecting neighbors. After the parents learned that their child was drinking two or three bottles a day, they decided to take him to a hospital. The doctor explained to the boy that he would not gain supernatural strength, but instead now has mental disorders from the lead and a strong “gasoline dependence.”

“Since my son start to drink gas, his intelligence quotient dropped sharply and he couldn’t figure out addition and subtraction of sums within 100,” the father said. “Before that, he was a very smart boy, and he could even repair the television. But now he doesn’t know the answer of 7 plus 17.”

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/20/kid-drinks-gasoline-to-be-more-like-the-transformers/

[Sev]

Imagine if it would've worked. That'd be fucking epic!

[shadowstar]

Why hasn't he... you know, died yet?

[Saikami]

^ That's what I was thinking o__O;

[JTRIX]

The kids parents scolded the kid after he started smelling the gas in cigarette lighters, and later began to notice that the gasoline in their motorcycle had begin disappearing. They caught the kid in the act and locked the motorcycle away, but the boy started stealing gasoline from unsuspecting neighbors. After the parents learned that their child was drinking two or three bottles a day, they decided to take him to a hospital.

omg... how the heck the parents don't take their kid to the doctor after seeing him drinking the first time, but instead waited until he starts to drink 2-3 bottles a day???

[Tuffty]

Wow he's not dead? Great work by the parents there btw. Their own son displays some sort of mental problem that sees himself drinking gasoline in order to emulate a cartoon character 5 years ago, yet fail to act on it.

And I can think of so many Transformer-related puns to this story.

[THUNDERDUCK]

I wonder what his mileage is though?

[JFC]

DEFINITELY need a facepalm emoticon.

[Mugen]

[kuno_thunder]

I'm trying not to laugh too loud at that facepalm.  Transformer facepalm ftw!!  The only thing that could beat that is TWO transformers doing a facepalm.

[tenkei]

man, it sucks that kids think like this, and suckier that kids parents are too fucking stupid to make sure their kids AREN'T drinking gas and to take them to a hospital....

but this shit is also hilarious and headline alone made me go 'fucking awesome.'

[SomethingWild]

Awesome story, yet sad it dragged on for so long. 5 years of drinking gasoline.. insane.

[StreakInTheSky]

Smart kid my ass.

[Kaizer]

I heard about this a while ago. It's ridiculous. ._.;

[shurastriker]

WHAT? replacing energon cubes with gasoline?... shura is not amused.

btw, maybe the parents really expected to own a transformer son.

[Kaizer]

^ Yeah they probably did since he'd been drinking it for a long time already.