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Haha, what the hell?

Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes

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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I would think that drinking gasoline for five years would cause you to, you know, die, but hey, I guess it doesn't.

I don't think they considered that he might've just been trying to win a free tank of gas.
 
This also might have been the result of gas fights with his friends.

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I thought the Transformers converted fuel sources into Energon... wait a second... they are responsible for the oil shortages!

As for that kid... he's going to need a villain.

*starts drinking crude oil*
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....breaths....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. I love the news.
 
As far as I know, they've been using oil a drinks (at they mention it in passing) since Beast Wars.

Gemini said:
In the stupid new show that just got cancelled, the Constructicons would frequently drink crude oil, as if it were coffee
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That show is good and no one can tell me different.
 
This movie was terrible on a level that consistently made me want to yell at the screen for it being flat and emotionless, and pointless, and plotless, and unexciting, and just generally ****ing stupid and insane...

Like, if the racist caricature twinbots weren't bad enough (and daaaamn, they were about ten times worse than I expected after hearing the initial uproar), whenever the characters actually started talking to each other I became more and more convinced that Bay let a horny 14 year old boy write a movie about sex and robots....

I couldn't stop laughing during the college bits... For those of you still in HS, let me warn you, Michael Bay's college of immediate sexy dance parties in frat houses that seem to be professionally lit with dancing models is a lie.... And holy ****ing god, the only human looking female in the movie is Shia's mom, who is therefore portrayed as an inept and stupid woman because lulz wwy not???

There are no redeeming factors to this movie. You see the ending coming after the first third and then you have to wait it out.

Seeing this was the first time I have been tempted to walk out of a movie theater that I have paid my own good money to sit in... The fact that I paid for this garbage let me rationalize sitting through it...

I simply cannot see what ANYONE sees in this film. The only cool thing is Optimus' voice, and its the same guy that's been doing it for decades, so that hardly counts.

EDIT: And I would just like to point out that this is coming from a guy who loves Will Smith movies, particularly Independence Day... Hell, I even loved Armageddon. I am not saying that something can't be stupid and amazing all at once... Seeing Snakes on a Plane was my most fun movie experience maybe ever... But there comes a point where the stupid piles up and up and up on top of the awful dialogue and the paper-thin characters and the film just collapses... This happened to me within the first half-hour of the movie.

Can I just ask a question? I mean, I love action movie heroes, even ones that are mostly just shells of characters... But what does ANYBODY see in Sam Witwicky? He seems to bumble through the entire film by luck, no intelligence of his own, and without any real personality... The whole inability to say "Love" thing, aside from being the most cliche bull**** thing they could have pulled (although, I suppose, there's not really any other direction to take this relationship), adds nothing whatsoever to him...

All the character is is "apparently geeky weirdo with hot girlfriend + robots". They Actually had to turn him into a plot device because there's nothing else interesting about the character to explore.

Does anybody really think the Transformers movies are going to level up to the Blockbuster Summer Movies of the past? These are terrible, terrible movies... Well, the first was mediocre and fun, but this was just painful to watch.

I'll watch Catwoman before I see this again. Twice.
 
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Dr.Strangefate said:
This movie was terrible on a level that consistently made me want to yell at the screen for it being flat and emotionless, and pointless, and plotless, and unexciting, and just generally ****ing stupid and insane...

Like, if the racist caricature twinbots weren't bad enough (and daaaamn, they were about ten times worse than I expected after hearing the initial uproar), whenever the characters actually started talking to each other I became more and more convinced that Bay let a horny 14 year old boy write a movie about sex and robots....

I couldn't stop laughing during the college bits... For those of you still in HS, let me warn you, Michael Bay's college of immediate sexy dance parties in frat houses that seem to be professionally lit with dancing models is a lie.... And holy ****ing god, the only human looking female in the movie is Shia's mom, who is therefore portrayed as an inept and stupid woman because lulz wwy not???

There are no redeeming factors to this movie. You see the ending coming after the first third and then you have to wait it out.

Seeing this was the first time I have been tempted to walk out of a movie theater that I have paid my own good money to sit in... The fact that I paid for this garbage let me rationalize sitting through it...

I simply cannot see what ANYONE sees in this film. The only cool thing is Optimus' voice, and its the same guy that's been doing it for decades, so that hardly counts.

EDIT: And I would just like to point out that this is coming from a guy who loves Will Smith movies, particularly Independence Day... Hell, I even loved Armageddon. I am not saying that something can't be stupid and amazing all at once... Seeing Snakes on a Plane was my most fun movie experience maybe ever... But there comes a point where the stupid piles up and up and up on top of the awful dialogue and the paper-thin characters and the film just collapses... This happened to me within the first half-hour of the movie.

Can I just ask a question? I mean, I love action movie heroes, even ones that are mostly just shells of characters... But what does ANYBODY see in Sam Witwicky? He seems to bumble through the entire film by luck, no intelligence of his own, and without any real personality... The whole inability to say "Love" thing, aside from being the most cliche bull**** thing they could have pulled (although, I suppose, there's not really any other direction to take this relationship), adds nothing whatsoever to him...

All the character is is "apparently geeky weirdo with hot girlfriend + robots". They Actually had to turn him into a plot device because there's nothing else interesting about the character to explore.

Does anybody really think the Transformers movies are going to level up to the Blockbuster Summer Movies of the past? These are terrible, terrible movies... Well, the first was mediocre and fun, but this was just painful to watch.

I'll watch Catwoman before I see this again. Twice.
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You and Ebert would get along great.
 
Dr.Strangefate said:
This movie was terrible on a level that consistently made me want to yell at the screen for it being flat and emotionless, and pointless, and plotless, and unexciting, and just generally ****ing stupid and insane...

Like, if the racist caricature twinbots weren't bad enough (and daaaamn, they were about ten times worse than I expected after hearing the initial uproar), whenever the characters actually started talking to each other I became more and more convinced that Bay let a horny 14 year old boy write a movie about sex and robots....

I couldn't stop laughing during the college bits... For those of you still in HS, let me warn you, Michael Bay's college of immediate sexy dance parties in frat houses that seem to be professionally lit with dancing models is a lie.... And holy ****ing god, the only human looking female in the movie is Shia's mom, who is therefore portrayed as an inept and stupid woman because lulz wwy not???

There are no redeeming factors to this movie. You see the ending coming after the first third and then you have to wait it out.

Seeing this was the first time I have been tempted to walk out of a movie theater that I have paid my own good money to sit in... The fact that I paid for this garbage let me rationalize sitting through it...

I simply cannot see what ANYONE sees in this film. The only cool thing is Optimus' voice, and its the same guy that's been doing it for decades, so that hardly counts.

EDIT: And I would just like to point out that this is coming from a guy who loves Will Smith movies, particularly Independence Day... Hell, I even loved Armageddon. I am not saying that something can't be stupid and amazing all at once... Seeing Snakes on a Plane was my most fun movie experience maybe ever... But there comes a point where the stupid piles up and up and up on top of the awful dialogue and the paper-thin characters and the film just collapses... This happened to me within the first half-hour of the movie.

Can I just ask a question? I mean, I love action movie heroes, even ones that are mostly just shells of characters... But what does ANYBODY see in Sam Witwicky? He seems to bumble through the entire film by luck, no intelligence of his own, and without any real personality... The whole inability to say "Love" thing, aside from being the most cliche bull**** thing they could have pulled (although, I suppose, there's not really any other direction to take this relationship), adds nothing whatsoever to him...

All the character is is "apparently geeky weirdo with hot girlfriend + robots". They Actually had to turn him into a plot device because there's nothing else interesting about the character to explore.

Does anybody really think the Transformers movies are going to level up to the Blockbuster Summer Movies of the past? These are terrible, terrible movies... Well, the first was mediocre and fun, but this was just painful to watch.

I'll watch Catwoman before I see this again. Twice.
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No disrespect at all intended, but I cannot fathom putting that much thought into this movie.
 
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