Are people getting dumber? Are parents involved in their kids’ lives at all anymore?

I bring up these questions because some kid in China started drinking gasoline 5 years ago when he was 9 so we would become more like a Transformer.  He was inspired to do so after viewing the Transformers cartoon series.

The youngster was so impressed that he began drinking fuel on a daily basis to “obtain energy” and become a mighty warrior like the Transformers. [Russia Today]

Idiot.  And it gets worse.  Apparently, drinking gasoline makes you dumber (duh) according to the kid’s parents:

“. . . 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.

“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, and he could even repair the television. But now he doesn’t know the answer of 7 plus 17.” [Quote from the idiot father via Russia Today]

Parents: if your kid doesn’t know by age 9 that drinking gas is bad for you YOU’RE A HORRIBLE PARENT!

This concludes todays parenting lesson.

[Source: Geekologie, Runaway Theologian, Russia Today, Shanghai Daily]