10 Year Old Terror....Why?

[Wrabbit2000]

This is a story so near tragic and so hollywood like for being surreal to imagine, I couldn't help but stifle a laugh a couple times while reading it. It's just...cold beyond explanation. However, that is the point and ultimate question I share it to point out.

While some of us are still trying to get into the entertaining world of animation, others see it as deadly serious business. Just ask one young lad in Guiyang City who was so perturbed by the noise of construction outside his apartment during a cartoon session that he severed the safety line of the guy doing the work, leaving him to hang on for dear life eight floors above ground.


According to media in Guizhou Province, a man was installing a light onto the outer wall of an apartment building's eighth floor at approximately 3:40pm. During the job he noticed his safety line shaking and spotted a young boy cutting at his lifeline with a knife from the window of a room on the same floor.

Now, at this stage, it might be easy to think up a dozen reasons or things to mitigate or what have you for how this wasn't as cold as it appears to have been. Then...the kid had to just say what he thought on the matter and remove all question.

The rescue was slowed somewhat because the crew had trouble finding an apartment on the floors above with someone home, allowing rescue workers access to the fatigued worker. However, after about 40 minutes of hanging on, the man was able to be removed from the wall without injury. When police confronted the 10-year-old he initially denied guilt, but soon broke under pressure and confessed. He told police, "The sound of drilling outside was noisy while I was watching cartoons, so I cut the rope with a knife."

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This was a major city in China, and near as I can see from the links with translations, it's legitimate. It's only a shade off what we read about in Western nations on a near daily basis, albeit in less dramatic ways for most cases. That's the whole thing though.

Western culture is drowning in media driven violence. That gets blame for kids and violence. Western culture is losing great degrees of morality as it's historically been known. That is often blamed. Poverty and capitalism as an economic system is even blamed when this sort of headline leads a story in Chicago or London.

This is China though, and that does make it a bit interesting because it is still a very controlled society where media is concerned, to the best of my understanding. They aren't drowning in a gun culture or a society with violence enshrined in song, movie and general media.

So what is the cause where all 'usual suspects' are generally missing by the nature of the society?