Road crash stunt lands Chinese ‘humour blogger’ and his mum behind bars
- Online celebrity stages collision with his mother to try and attract more followers on social media
A fake road accident staged and filmed by a “humour blogger” has landed him and his cast and crew – including his mother – in detention for five days in central China.
Officers in Zhengzhou, Henan province, said on Wednesday they received a complaint on the weekend about an “online celebrity who planned and filmed a car crash video in the street that seriously disturbed the traffic order”.
At about 6pm on Sunday, a 26-year-old man identified only as Chao drove a blue Lamborghini to an intersection in Jinshui district and pretended to collide with an electric scooter driven by his 55-year-old mother, surnamed Cao, police said.
The stunt was filmed by his friend, Liu, and designed to help Chao attract more followers on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform.
The incident stopped traffic at the intersection for more than 40 minutes, police said.