Chinese internet addicts stage mutiny at boot camp
Fourteen young detainees overcame their guard and fled a boot camp regime of physical training and psychological treatment designed to cure their addiction to the internet. The group, aged 15 to 22, staged their mass breakout by grabbing a duty supervisor when he was in bed and immobilising him in his quilt. He shouted for help and they apologised before tying him up. They then made their way in groups of three to the home town of the leader of the group.
The addicts made their break from the Huaian Internet Addiction Treatment Centre in eastern Jiangsu province last Wednesday, complaining that they could no longer endure its monotonous work and intensive training. For the recent escapees freedom proved short lived. A taxi driver alerted police after the young men were unable to pay the fare. There was little sympathy from their exasperated parents either, who had paid 18,000 yuan (1,830) for their children to receive six months treatment at the camp. Most insisted that their children should go back to the camp at once and since the breakout all but one have been returned.
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