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Chinese man jailed for setting ‘slow’ internet cables on fire

/ 03:28 PM January 12, 2022

Chinese man jailed for setting 'slow' internet cables on fire

Beijing, China A man in China has been sentenced to seven years in jail for setting internet equipment ablaze after becoming enraged over a slow connection, authorities have said.

The man, surnamed Lan, was at an internet cafe in southern Guangxi province last June when his frustration with the connection speed spilled over.

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He responded by destroying a public box containing optical fiber network cables, a local court said in a statement on Monday.

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The court said the man “used a lighter to set a napkin he had on him on fire, then burned down a telecommunications box at a traffic intersection.”

The fire caused nearly 4,000 households and offices, including a public hospital, to lose internet access for 28 to 50 hours.

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“After the incident, public security officials seized Lan’s instrument of crime a lighter,” according to the court in Cenxi, a small mountain city.

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Lan was later hit with a seven-year jail term for “destroying public telecommunications facilities.”

The story prompted widespread ridicule on the Chinese internet, with one Weibo user calling the man a “big baby.”

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TOPICS: China, Crime, fire, Internet
TAGS: China, Crime, fire, Internet

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