The 23 year old, surnamed Yin, strapped a fake bomb to his body in March and made his way to the top of the 88-story Jin Mao tower — the world’s 13th tallest building and Shanghai’s second tallest, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Monday.
Brandishing a knife in one hand and talking into a mobile phone with the other, Yin threatened to blow himself up and destroy the building unless police allowed him to meet the city’s top government officials to warn them about the coming cataclysm.
“Our planet is going to be destroyed in 2012. I demand to speak to the relevant officials within 20 minutes. Otherwise, I will blow up the tower’s observation deck,” Yin told police over the phone, according to the prosecution.
He repeatedly shouted “The earth is going to be destroyed,” before being talked into surrendering more than an hour later.
Yin was working as a waiter at a hotpot restaurant in neighboring Jiangsu Province at the time he came to Shanghai to carry out his plan, the prosecution told the court.
Yin said, “I want more people to know that the earth will be destroyed in 2012, so they still have time to build shelters to save more lives.”
He has now been jailed for 2 years for possessing dangerous
objects. He was considered to not have any mental problems, although
taking such a movie literally could be seen as just a lack of mental
aptitude.
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