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Hoping to turn a machine boy, 14, drinks petrol

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-23 09:11

A 14-year-old boy in Xingwen county, Sichuan province, has been drinking petrol for five years, thinking he'll turn into a powerful gladiator, like the ones in the super-hit movie Transformers.

He started drinking gasoline after he first saw the film in 2004.

Chen Dahai, the boy's father, who runs a small store in the county, said the boy started with drinking the fuel in cigarette lighters and then moved on to consuming jars of gasoline.

The father took the boy to see a doctor, who diagnosed him with "some mental disorder".

(West China Metropolis Daily)