China Scene: West

Boy sells dad's motorcycle to raise games money

A 14-year-old boy in Yangling, Shaanxi province, ran out of money for online games so he sold his father's motorcycle and disappeared for weeks.

In April, the boy drove his father's almost-new motorcycle to an Internet caf in order to play computer games. When he ran out of money, he put up the motorcycle for sale on the Internet and got 1,000 yuan ($146). He went to Xi'an, capital of the province, to play.