Chinese teen chops off hand to cure Internet addiction

February 05, 2015 12:44

Talk about extreme measures! In a grisly incident, a 19-year-old boy in China chopped off his left hand with a cleaver in order to cure his Internet addiction.

Xiao Wang (pseudonym), a high school senior, is recovering after doctors were able to successfully reattach his hand. He performed the amputation on a stone bench next to a bus stop on Sunday with a cleaver taken from his kitchen. He then hailed a cab and headed for the hospital where doctors conducted 10 hours of emergency surgery to reattach Xiao's severed hand. Doctors have said it would take a week to know whether the hand would be saved.

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