Drinking Gasoline: Will It Make You Into a Transformer?

Look, I like to watch supersized robots battle each other for the fate of the planet as much as the next fellow.  But would I want that life, myself?  A 14-year old from the Sichuan province in China decided five years ago that he was not content with merely being supportive of the Transformers and what they do – he wanted to become a Transformer.  To imbue himself with the noble prarie spirit of the Ford Probe, he began drinking the elixir of mechanical life, that Denali Drank, that Riyadh Red Label:

“But afterwards we found our motorcycle’s gasoline was always disappearing, and one day when we found the boy drinking half a bottle of gasoline stolen from the motorcycle, we were too shocked to say anything,” the father said.

Well one thing you could say might be, “Hey, stop drinking that gasoline!”  But the damage may be done…  

Drinking gasoline for five years sort of becomes a thing with your body, like drinking hairspray or mouthwash or concentrated extract of Gushers candy.

The parents locked the motorcycle away, but the obsessed boy started stealing the gasoline from neighbors, drinking two or three bottles a day.

Only after that did the parents decide to take him to a hospital. The doctor said the boy was unable to gain supernatural strength, but had mental disorders and had a strong “gasoline dependence” instead.

Yup, he had become the very thing he despised most: a Decepticon.  Irrational, temperamental, always getting in fights and slurring their words and writing novels.

“Since my son start to drink gas, his intelligence quotient dropped sharply and he couldn’t figure out addition and subtraction of sums within 100,” the father said. “Before that, he was a very smart boy [ed: really?], and he could even repair the television. But now he doesn’t know the answer of 7 plus 17.”

Source: Russia Today via Geekologie via Ditchard Renton, who transforms into an S-Class Maybach.