It is hard to believe that someone losing on an online video game led to this:
On the evening of September 10, the Lonely Gate affair unfolded at the first floor of the men’s dormitory at Nanjing University. At 10:45pm, male student A was defeated repeatedly by the same tactic in an online game. He broke down mentally and ran screaming out of his room without any clothes on. He yelled that he was going to jump out of the building and kill himself. When other dormitory denizens heard that there was a nude runner, they came out to watch. Student A tried to climb on the roof, but his roommates held him back while telling him that he still has many things left unaccomplished in his life. Indeed, student A suddenly remembered that he had never professed his feelings to the guidance counselor whom he had admired for a long time. So he charged out of the dormitory building.
It happened that the university was testing its broadcasting system in the area between Dormitory 1 and Dormitory 3, and the recording happened to be a declaration from the military training instructor to the guidance counselor whom student A admired. Student A was filled with sorrow and anger when he heard that, and he began to scream and yell downstairs. [ESWN]
Click the link to read what ended up happening.







12:35 am on September 19th, 2009 1
Apparently it was a malfunctioning loudspeaker (Chinese link) and was basically just students milling about for twenty minutes before going back inside. This blogger (who attends the university) says he's heard some other "explanations", some more compelling than others (a student declaring his love for a teacher, a private phone conversation broadcast over the speakers, boys protesting the security at the girls' dorms, a pajama modeling show).
11:33 am on September 19th, 2009 2
Are their lives really that boring?