Monday, July 24, 2006

China : Internet cafe easy target to teen pranks

Shanghai daily reports bored teen Internet cafe customers antics

Teen terrorist by -- CITY police announced the arrest of a 19-year-old man suspected of making fake terrorist threats. Police said the suspect surnamed Li sent an online notice from an Internet cafe in Fengxian District on July 3, claiming he was planning to blow up the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

Li allegedly confessed to police that he came up with the idea out of boredom and just wanted to frighten other Netizens.

Despite Shanghai city 's internet cafes highly regulated, the city police do face such pranks.

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