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Title: 'Hot Water Challenge' reportedly leaves teen with second-degree burns
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/ ... -with-second-degree-burns.html
Published: Jul 30, 2018
Author: Alexandra Hein
Post Date: 2018-07-30 12:22:00 by no gnu taxes
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Views: 1650
Comments: 22
A 15-year-old teen suffered second-degree burns to his face and body after his friends allegedly poured boiling hot water on him as he slept in a bid to complete the “Hot Water Challenge.” Kyland Clark, of Indianapolis, said that he and his friends were watching videos of the challenge last week on YouTube before he fell asleep, and that his friend had attempted the challenge as a joke, Fox 59 reported. Clark said he was startled awake, and that his injuries were immediately apparent. “My skin just fell off my chest, and then I looked in the mirror and I had skin falling off here and, on my face,” he told the news outlet. He was hospitalized for a week, and while doctors are hopeful that the pigment will return in his face in a few months, they warn that the challenge can cause permanent injuries or even death. “If your friends are telling you to do this, they aren’t good friends,” Dr. Ed Bartkus, of Indiana University Health, told Fox 59. Bartkus said the burns could cause permanent disfigurement or damage the airway. Last summer, an 11-year-old girl in New York suffered burns to her face and chest after her friends had poured hot water on her. The 12-year-old who reportedly dumped the water on her was charged with felony assault. In Florida, a variation of the challenge tragically killed an 8-year-old girl last summer after she attempted to drink boiling hot water through a straw. Ki’ari Pope and her cousin had allegedly been watching videos of the challenge, and the scalding hot water caused fatal injuries to her throat. “There’s a limit to what you should do in a challenge and what you shouldn’t,” Clark told Fox 59. “Don’t take it overboard.”
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#1. To: All (#0)
Note to self: Boiling hot water can severely injure a person.
With friends like these...
Gee, thanks doc. (Is this article from The Onion??) Man...what insane times we live in.
Next up: The Russian Roulette Challenge.
Her throat died?
These so-called Darwinian Award "Challenges"; When and why did they and Stupidity become The Rage? Social Media and the Internet has become a fatal Poison Pill for the West. For today's Yoof (and for all liberals needless to say), Common Sense and Logic have become...EXTINCT.
Serves her right, drinking through a plastic straw.
Undertaken by the same group that wants to ban all guns because they're smarter than adults.
THAT is pretty much what's happening, isn't it? But if you're suggesting the next evolutionary step in this Idiocracy would be the "official" Russian Roulette game, yes, I can see it happening. "Challenges" or "Pranks" these days = Suicide Pact for the dumbest kid in the group of "friends". It's actually heartbreaking that this is becoming epidemic. The most susceptible (as well as the perps) seem to be those without fathers or without a strong male mentor. No one is saying it, but this phenomena is all about evil preying upon the weak, and acceptance of cruelty and the lack of compassion and empathy. Isn't this a spiritual problem? Recall many years ago some had been warning (and being ridiculed for it) that a non-nonchalance toward murder and violence depicted as "winning" in video games -- as well as normalizing graphic/slasher movies -- would take root and anesthetize young minds from evil, bloody imagery? Well, it's happened. Today's liberals/Dems are severely lacking as groups in morals, shame, without fear of accountability. OR TO GOD. In other words, removing Christendom as America's societal moral compass is rapidly creating a society of psychopaths and sociopaths. No one feels shamed by any cruel, disgusting or evil behavior anymore. Nothing is "wrong" and everything is relative in Christendom's replacement: Secular Humanism.
Kids are a lot dumber than they were in the days they were given a .22 single-shot rifle when they were old enough to hold it level.
My guess is they would use a fully loaded revolver, and then wonder, "how did this end so quickly."
I can remember firing a 22 rifle at objects in a ditch when I was a teenager. We were smart enough to know how to aim it an object that wasn't a danger to anyone. If we did that these days, we might be charged with numerous felonies.
Plastic straws must be banned! It's for the children!
Nah. They used a semi-auto with only 7 in the magazine instead of 8.
THAT is pretty much what's happening, isn't it? We're getting closer: Florida man hit by car doing Drake's 'In My Feelings' challenge “Dancing in the Street” was a popular 1964 song by Martha and the Vandellas. But dancing in the street was also the reason a Florida man got hit by a car recently as he attempted Drake’s “In My Feelings” challenge. Jaylen Norwood posted a video on Instagram to his 15,300 followers of him doing the viral dance move on a street in Boynton Beach. He performed the dance for just a few seconds before he was hit by an oncoming car. According to Norwood’s Instagram caption, he knew the car would be coming. He was originally supposed to jump on the hood of the car to finish the dance but slipped on a wet spot while wearing sandals. Norwood wasn’t seriously injured and proudly displayed his scrapes and cuts on the video.
According to Norwood’s Instagram caption, he knew the car would be coming. He was originally supposed to jump on the hood of the car to finish the dance but slipped on a wet spot while wearing sandals. Hope they were Birkenstock. Idiot. These people are so desperate for attention that they are willing to commit suicide...In the name of "glory". Like Daffy Duck:
Yeah. In the 4 seconds they have left as they bleed out. Trouble is, they've all been watching too many cartoons and Tee-bee shows/movies where the "heroes" get shot multiple times and recover by the next week. Their "buddies": "Duuuude! We weren't serious. But...that wuz cool!"
Wile E. Coyote blew himself up, fell off a cliff, was killed by land mines and dehydrated tornadoes, hit with anvils, bowling balls - you name it - and he was good to go in the next scene. Somehow all of us kids had enough common sense not to do any of that.
Somehow all of us kids had enough common sense not to do any of that. Lol, yeah. TILL Social Media "Challenges" and the "Selfie" rage.
We didn't have an anvils to experiment with. Actually, my family did. Never forget that thing. But no, we didn't have any dehydrated tornadoes stashed away in the attic. To be fair, our generation also didn't have cell phones with which to brag about our exploits. When you have a tool like that at your disposal, social rules and safety rules to start to get mixed.
I think our youth should start the Drain-O challenge.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
That’s one dumb potato. Willie Greens kin.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
#2. To: All (#0)
A 15-year-old teen suffered second-degree burns to his face and body after his friends allegedly poured boiling hot water on him as he slept
#3. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
“If your friends are telling you to do this, they aren’t good friends,” Dr. Ed Bartkus, of Indiana University Health, told Fox 59.
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
#5. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Ki’ari Pope and her cousin had allegedly been watching videos of the challenge, and the scalding hot water caused fatal injuries to her throat.
#6. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
(Edited)
Kyland Clark, of Indianapolis, said that he and his friends were watching videos of the challenge last week on YouTube...
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#5)
Her throat died?
#8. To: Liberator (#6)
These so-called Darwinian Award "Challenges"
#9. To: misterwhite, pinguinite, redleghunter, CZ82, Tooconservative (#4)
Next up: The Russian Roulette Challenge.
#10. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
#11. To: Liberator (#9)
But if you're suggesting the next evolutionary step in this Idiocracy would be the "official" Russian Roulette game
#12. To: Hank Rearden (#10)
#13. To: misterwhite, Fred Mertz (#7)
Serves her right, drinking through a plastic straw.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Trump: My People Should ‘Sit Up in Attention’ Like Kim Jong-un’s Staff.
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#11)
(Edited)
My guess is they would use a fully loaded revolver, and then wonder, "how did this end so quickly."
#15. To: Liberator, no gnu taxes, misterwhite, pinguinite, redleghunter, CZ82, Tooconservative, Fred Mertz (#9)
Next up: The Russian Roulette Challenge.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Trump: My People Should ‘Sit Up in Attention’ Like Kim Jong-un’s Staff.
#16. To: Deckard, all (#15)
He performed the dance for just a few seconds before he was hit by an oncoming car.
#17. To: no gnu taxes (#11)
My guess is they would use a fully loaded revolver, and then wonder, "how did this end so quickly."
#18. To: Liberator (#17)
(Edited)
Trouble is, they've all been watching too many cartoons and Tee-bee shows/movies where the "heroes" get shot multiple times and recover by the next week.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Trump: My People Should ‘Sit Up in Attention’ Like Kim Jong-un’s Staff.
#19. To: Deckard (#18)
Wile E. Coyote blew himself up, fell off a cliff, was killed by land mines and dehydrated tornadoes, hit with anvils, bowling balls - you name it - and he was good to go in the next scene.
#20. To: Deckard (#18)
Somehow all of us kids had enough common sense not to do any of that.
#21. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
#22. To: Deckard (#15)
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