A man in China has been sentenced to seven years in jail for setting internet gear ablaze after turning into enraged over a gradual connection, authorities have stated.
The man, surnamed Lan, was at an internet cafe in southern Guangxi province final June when his frustration with the connection pace spilled over.
He responded by destroying a public field containing optical fibre community cables, a neighborhood courtroom stated in a press release on Monday.
The courtroom stated the man “used a lighter to set a serviette he had on him on fire, then burned down a telecommunications field at a site visitors intersection”.
The fire brought on practically 4,000 households and workplaces, together with a public hospital, to lose internet entry for 28 to 50 hours.
“After the incident, public safety officers seized Lan’s instrument of crime – a lighter,” in response to the courtroom in Cenxi, a small mountain metropolis.
Lan was later hit with a seven-year jail time period for “destroying public telecommunications services”.
The story prompted widespread ridicule on the Chinese internet, with one Weibo consumer calling the man a “large child”. – AFP
