‘So scary!’: 7 million in China stunned by video of online game-addicted son threatening father with meat cleaver over mobile phone confiscation
- Stand-off between father and son over too much time playing games on mobile phone ends in dad seizing meat cleaver from child
- Gaming addiction is not uncommon in China and the problem is exacerbated during holiday seasons
Chinese social media has been stunned by a shocking video clip which shows a primary school pupil brandishing a chopper at his father because his dad would not let him play video games on his mobile phone.
The 13-second video, shot by an unidentified person in the southern Chinese autonomous region of Guangxi, has shocked millions of people online.
It shows a male primary school student waving a meat cleaver in front of a middle-aged man who has 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 chopper.
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. The boy became angry and grabbed the chopper to threaten his dad.