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

With friends like these...

“If your friends are telling you to do this, they aren’t good friends,” Dr. Ed Bartkus, of Indiana University Health, told Fox 59.

Gee, thanks doc.

(Is this article from The Onion??)

Man...what insane times we live in.

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.

Her throat died?

Kyland Clark, of Indianapolis, said that he and his friends were watching videos of the challenge last week on YouTube...

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.

Her throat died?

Serves her right, drinking through a plastic straw.

These so-called Darwinian Award "Challenges"

Undertaken by the same group that wants to ban all guns because they're smarter than adults.

Next up: The Russian Roulette Challenge.

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.

But if you're suggesting the next evolutionary step in this Idiocracy would be the "official" Russian Roulette game

My guess is they would use a fully loaded revolver, and then wonder, "how did this end so quickly."

Serves her right, drinking through a plastic straw.

Plastic straws must be banned!

It's for the children!

My guess is they would use a fully loaded revolver, and then wonder, "how did this end so quickly."

Nah. They used a semi-auto with only 7 in the magazine instead of 8.

Next up: The Russian Roulette Challenge.

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.

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.

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:

My guess is they would use a fully loaded revolver, and then wonder, "how did this end so quickly."

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!"

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.

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.

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.

Lol, yeah. TILL Social Media "Challenges" and the "Selfie" rage.

Somehow all of us kids had enough common sense not to do any of that.

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.