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| 2014-07-30 |
| Lexington, Ky. (CBS CLEVELAND) -- A 15-year-old in Kentucky suffered second-degree burns after rubbing alcohol on his chest and lighting himself on fire in imitation of popular Facebook and YouTube "Fire Challenge" videos. Because, like, it's on YouTube, Dude. It's gotta be real. Lexington police said that officers were called to the 3600 block of Appian Way to assist a teenager who had burned himself after watching the "Fire Challenge" videos online, WYKT-TV reports. The teen, whose name was not given, mimicked the online videos by pouring rubbing alcohol on his body and then setting himself on fire. Tried to make an ash of himself. "Unbearable, yeah, basically," said the teen who suffered second-degree burns. "Literally after it got put out it was already blistering, it's just hard." Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid. If you are gonna be stupid, ya gotta be tough. Videos of the "Fire Challenge" also show teens spraying themselves with aerosol cans before lighting portions of their body on fire in order to singe off their own hair. But the videos never show the physical aftermath of lighting one's self on fire. "Just watching it and never seeing what ended and just being childish," the teen said of his actions. One of the firefighters who took the teenager to the hospital said that the burns suffered by the boy will likely affect him for the rest of his life. "After getting a second or third degree burn later on in life if you get a sunburn it's going to be compounded by these particular burns," the emergency worker told WYKT. "You can get caught on fire and die, your house can get caught on fire, wherever you're at can get caught on fire," said the teen, cautioning others not to light themselves on fire for any reason. First lesson about fire. It's HOT!! It will BURN!! |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #12 Pulled my Jews harps out of mothballs just for this article (yep, plural, proll'y the only Yankee that has some) |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-07-30 15:37 |
| #11 Gesundheit, gorb! ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-07-30 14:16 |
| #10 I'll bring my kazoo. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-07-30 13:30 |
| #9 And an harmonica and concertina. But not all at the same time. And yes, I can play I'll be Happy Tonight. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-07-30 12:19 |
| #8 I also play an accordian. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-07-30 12:17 |
| #7 Thanks Besoeker for that! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-30 10:48 |
| #6 Seldom heard, but another of my favorites sung by a former Marine. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-30 10:10 |
| #5 Deacon ~ can you pick "I'll be happy tonight?" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-30 09:37 |
| #4 According to some, you can achieve "perfect pitch" with a banjo. That is to say, a perfect pitch of tossing it into the trash dumpster where it strikes an accordion......... I'm just repeating what other said. No, really I like banjoes..... Do too..... |
| Posted by: Everyday A Wildcat! (KSU) 2014-07-30 09:12 |
| #3 I'm a banjo picker. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-07-30 07:51 |
| #2 One question. Was there banjo music in the background? (I'll stop now.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-30 07:25 |
| #1 Sounds like criminal child endangerment to me. Civil suits all around for Facebook and UaTube. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-07-30 06:38 |