Man spends 6 years in internet cafe
Published: 2013 March 29 17:00:23 (5129 Views)
A Chinese video game addict has spent the last six years living in an internet cafe, according to reports.
Li Meng apparently almost never leaves his chair, except to buy food and take the occasional shower, at the cafe in China’s north-east city of Changchun, in the Jilin province.
Reports suggest the ‘bespectacled youth clearly hadn’t been to a hairdresser for a long time’.
One person told the Beijing Times: ‘He generally comes at night to play the game, gets sleepy during the day and sleeps here. From time to time will be out to take a bath.’
He is thought to have supported himself by selling virtual goods for real money.
He apparently has a monthly income of 2,000 yen, or £212, of which £53 is paid as a fee to the cafe every month.
A report in Business Insider suggested it had been a challenge to get his attention, saying: ‘No matter what was said, he refused to communicate with anyone else.
‘I consulted the cafe owner, who simply explained that having been there for so long, they barely noticed his presence, and found him to be straightforward and of little annoyance.’
China has a well-documented problem with young people’s addictions to gaming, with reports of camps designed to cure children of their internet cravings.
It was reported earlier this year that the father of a 23-year-old Chinese man hired ‘online assassins’ to kill his avatar repeatedly, in the hope his son would give up and get a job.
- Metro
Li Meng apparently almost never leaves his chair, except to buy food and take the occasional shower, at the cafe in China’s north-east city of Changchun, in the Jilin province.
Reports suggest the ‘bespectacled youth clearly hadn’t been to a hairdresser for a long time’.
One person told the Beijing Times: ‘He generally comes at night to play the game, gets sleepy during the day and sleeps here. From time to time will be out to take a bath.’
He is thought to have supported himself by selling virtual goods for real money.
He apparently has a monthly income of 2,000 yen, or £212, of which £53 is paid as a fee to the cafe every month.
A report in Business Insider suggested it had been a challenge to get his attention, saying: ‘No matter what was said, he refused to communicate with anyone else.
‘I consulted the cafe owner, who simply explained that having been there for so long, they barely noticed his presence, and found him to be straightforward and of little annoyance.’
China has a well-documented problem with young people’s addictions to gaming, with reports of camps designed to cure children of their internet cravings.
It was reported earlier this year that the father of a 23-year-old Chinese man hired ‘online assassins’ to kill his avatar repeatedly, in the hope his son would give up and get a job.
- Metro
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