Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break 177
UgLyPuNk writes "A group of inmates at the Huai'an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre decided they'd had enough of the 'monotonous work and intensive training.' Working together, they tied their duty supervisor to his bed and made a run for it. The 14 patients, aged from 15 to 22, hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby town — but were uncovered when the driver took them to the police station instead, suspicious of the identically dressed young men who were unable to pay the fare."
First post! (Score:5, Funny)
First I escaped Slashdot Addiction Camp, and now this! What a perfect day.
Reeeeroy Jenkiiiiiins (Score:4, Funny)
Hurra! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I know China is crowded (Score:5, Funny)
Not really. People training for the clown car trick typically practice in China.
Re:'monotonous work and intensive training' (Score:5, Funny)
Using inmates at an internet-addiction boot camp as slave labor for your WoW gold-farming business...
McGuyverism Triumphs Again (Score:5, Funny)
Good way to show you don't have a problem (Score:2, Funny)
So, people claim that these kids ain't addicted or have a problem. But they assault their supervisor and have one most of the most ill out escape plans in history. Really, what was their destination going to be? Home? Their parents send them there. No money. Well HOW ABOUT WALKING THEN? No, lets hail a cab (more likely a bus service with 14 people but I guess Americans never heard of public transport) with no money in camouflage gear...
The Three Stooges could not have done it better.
This does for the proof that there is no such thing as game addiction what "I will beat up anyone who says games make me violent" does for the "video games don't cause violence" crowd. Or Jeremy Clarkson does for any issue. He is such a twat that anything he stands for is automatically a lost cause because if he is for it, it has got to be wrong. If you don't know who Jeremy Clarkson is, he is part of a program that tours Vietnam on a motorcycle with american songs blaring in the background. It is a blessing he wasn't born in America, or he would have thought driving through Vietnam on an motor painted in the American flag with Bruce Springsteen blaring from speakers was a good idea.
Anyway, back op topic. Spoiled kids escape from military school. Cry me a river. Beat them harder next time. If you game for 28 hours straight, you have a problem. Constipation for one.
Re:Punishment? (Score:3, Funny)
mod points (Score:5, Funny)
Re:McGuyverism Triumphs Again (Score:5, Funny)
Expect the chinese government to spin this into a positive light for their work camp by "teaching teamwork and on-the-fly improvisational skills".
Also, since they didn't beat up the cab driver, steal his cab, take it for a joy ride and kill a hooker with a baseball bat it's clearly proof that these camps are combatting video game addiction too...
A Clockwork Orange (Score:3, Funny)
I imagine a boot camp with scenes reminiscent of the conditioning in "A Clockwork Orange".
No! No! No!, not Ludwig Von.....
Re:Hurra! (Score:2, Funny)
Achievement Unlocked: "Prison Break"!
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Re:Reeeeroy Jenkiiiiiins (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Punishment? (Score:2, Funny)
I was thinking the same thing. It's a really sick world. I also have crystal meth addiction but I'm not bothering anybody and don't have nagging parents telling me to get off the ice. I remembered when I was young I had my pipe taken away (parents thought that the pipe was the meth), little did they know I had a few spare pipes under the bed. Up all night in HS sleeping during class, but know what I still got A's. People are different, just because someone behaves different than the others you shouldn't lock them up if they are not hurting anybody or bothering anyone else.
There I fixed that for you...though you could substitute just about anything from prostitutes to religions. This is large scale social engineering. They are "culling the herd" like cattle. Traits that they want to remove, they remove. Just be glad they don't want to remove genetic traits or else you might find yourself castrated.
Its really in NO WAY different from what we do here. .
-Steve
Re:Good way to show you don't have a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Really, what was their destination going to be? Home?
You don't know?
Seriously, man. Use your brain a little bit.
That's absolutely obvious.
The nearest Internet cafe.
Re:'monotonous work and intensive training' (Score:4, Funny)
They'll want to chop off their own hands and gouge out their eyes before using a computer again.
Re:'monotonous work and intensive training' (Score:4, Funny)
that's such a brilliant idea that I would be surprised if it hasn't already happened.
Perhaps Jeff Bezos will try to patent that too!
Re:'monotonous work and intensive training' (Score:4, Funny)
The dude is a multi-billionaire and gets to use the "I was the first man on Mars" line at every club he walks into. He deserves no apologies for any of us regular losers.
Re:'monotonous work and intensive training' (Score:5, Funny)
24800 experience for escaping from the prison warden, they get to keep their clothes and choose between steel handcuffs or plastic ties!