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Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-a-run-for-it dept.

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."

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  1. 'monotonous work and intensive training' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Instead of playing WoW, are they just living it now?

    1. Re:'monotonous work and intensive training' by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know what would be the perfect "abuse of authority/prison-industrial complex" scandal story?

      Using inmates at an internet-addiction boot camp as slave labor for your WoW gold-farming business...

  2. I know China is crowded by Skarecrow77 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    but shouldn't 14 people in a single cab still be considered somewhat suspicious on it's own?

    1. Re:I know China is crowded by Improv · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not really. People training for the clown car trick typically practice in China.

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  3. Hurra! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Achievement Unlocked: "Prison Break"!

  4. mod points by poptones · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wanted to mod you up, but there's no option for "drug induced rambling."

  5. Re:Age 15-22? by cosm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's the age of [whateveritscalled] in China? i.e. Why do over 16/18 (?) year olds need to "escape"? Pressure from the government, or parents, or honour, or something else?

    I think the word your looking for is "oppression", and the answer is "any".

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  6. video games are an escape from reality by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and considering the reality of china, where the state treats everyone like a slave, i can understand why so many in china would be addicted to video games. i would be too if i lived in china

    there exists in china the lives of the rich in the coastal cities, who are able to afford some degree of freedom

    but for the rest of the country, the majority, you have some sort of nightmare where the worst excesses of communist authoritarianism combine with completely unbridled capitalist rapaciousness, to produce a distinctly modern chinese breed of hell on earth for the poor in china. the state has no problem abusing you and propagandizing you, and the corporations have no problem working you like a mule, and will bribe the corrupt state authorities to get away with it

    it really is not surprising that some workers are committing suicide in flocks:

    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/foxconn-says-personal-issues-not-wages-led-workers-to-suicide.html

    modern china is a brutal corporatist authoritarian nightmare, the worst of communism and capitalism, mushed together as a hybrid schizophrenic hell

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