Fan Drinks Petrol To Be Like Transformers

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A 14-year-old boy in China has been drinking petrol to be like his Transformers movie heroes Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, reports say.

"Since the boy watched the film, he started drinking gasoline to become a valiant fighter," the West China Metropolis newspaper reported, citing his father.

Optimus Prime, a main character in the Transformers movies and cartoons, is a huge robot that can turn into a truck.
He leads a heroic Transformer faction called the Autobots, including Bumblebee, against an evil robot group called the Decepticons.

"We were shocked when one day we found out the boy drank half a bottle of gasoline from our motorcycle," the father said.
"Since my son started drink gasoline, his intelligence dropped sharply.

"Before that, he was a very smart boy, and he could even repair the television. But now he does not know the answer of seven plus 17."
The teenager's mother also told how the teenager likes to inhale the liquid gas in lighters and has stolen lighters from a grocery store.
The worried parents from Sichuan province eventually took their son to a Yibin City hospital.

Doctors said the boy had mental disorders and a strong "gasoline dependence".

"The gasoline contains a lot of lead, which can do harm to people's brain," Peng Houquan, a doctor at the hospital said.


"To make things worse, the boy is in the physical development stage, and the lead has caused serious damage to his body."

Transformers is now a Hollywood blockbuster movie franchise and its second action film is currently breaking box office records in China.
Sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has earned about 400m yuan (£34.4m) in the country, breaking the record set by Titanic 10 years ago.

Source : Sky News
 
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