With the rise of technology, more forms of dangerous and unhealthy addictions have sprouted out such as gaming, mobile phones and social media addictions.
This can prove to be very unhealthy but very common especially among those in the younger generation who have pretty much grown up with this technology.
Recently, a video of a primary school pupil brandishing a meat cleaver at his father because his dad would not let him play video games on his mobile phone went viral on Chinese social media.
The 13-second video, shot by an unidentified person in the southern Chinese autonomous region of Guangxi, shows a male primary school student waving a meat cleaver in front of a middle-aged man who had obviously taken away the youngster’s mobile phone, and is shouting “give it back to me”.
The boy continues to brandish the weapon before the man overpowers him and takes hold of the weapon.
According to SCMP, the incident was filmed on February 10 and the person who shot the video told a television station in the central Chinese province of Henan that the two individuals involved were father and son.
The scary stand-off started when the father stopped the boy playing games and confiscated his mobile phone. This made the boy angry and grabbed the meat cleaver to threaten his dad.
The person also said that the father often spoilt his son but decided to do otherwise this time, leading to the fight.
The boy in the video was wearing the red scarf that Chinese primary school students are required to wear, meaning that the “chopper threat” came after the winter holidays had ended and school had begun.
Mobile game addiction among children is not a new phenomenon in China. Many gaming companies have even introduced rules prohibiting minors from playing games for too long and require each player to upload their identity card and undergo a facial recognition verification to prove their age.
Watch the video below:
We hope that no one was hurt in the incident.
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