A group of young Chinese web addicts staged a mutiny at an Internet “boot camp”, tying up their instructor and fleeing the facility over its tough military-like techniques, state media said Tuesday.
The 14 mutineers, aged 15 to 22, were all caught by police when they failed to pay a taxi fare following their escape from the rehabilitation centre in east China’s Jiangsu province last week, the Global Times said.
They had tied up their supervisor in his bed to allow them to escape the “monotonous work and intensive training” at the camp, it said.
Parents of 13 of the Internet addicts have already sent them back to the Huai’an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre after picking them up at a local police station, the paper said.
“We need to teach them some discipline and help them to establish a regular lifestyle,” the paper quoted an employee at the camp as saying.
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