Teen Sets Himself on Fire for Online 'Challenge' (LOL!)

Newser ^ | July 30, 2014 | Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

[Enterprise]

If pouring rubbing alcohol on your chest and lighting it on fire sounds like a bad idea, you're on the right track. A 15-year-old boy in Kentucky had to learn the hard way, however, after he attempted a stunt called the "fire challenge" that's been popping up on sites like Facebook and YouTube. "I just poured alcohol on it, and lit it, and it just automatically went and burst," the teenager, who suffered second-degree burns, tells WKYT-TV.

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"Unbearable," the teen says. "Literally after it got put out it was already blistering."

[skinkinthegrass]

good riddance!

[Responsibility2nd]

If pouring rubbing alcohol on your chest and lighting it on fire sounds like a bad idea, you're on the right track.

Yes. Bad idea. Better to set your crotch on fire. And have your friends stomp it out.

[VA_Gentleman]

“If you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.” -Roger Alan Wade

[dfwgator]

[Enterprise]

Oh man, that’s priceless!!!!!

[Tax-chick]

My son just did his arms.

[TexasCajun]

Video: ...God, I'm sorry but I had to just LOL at Buckwheat!!

Fire Challenge Gone Wrong

[Night Hides Not]

Thanks to teenage boys, Charles Atlas became a multi-millionaire. Until the day my stepfather passed away, he'd ask me, "have those muscles arrived in the mail yet?"

[Enterprise]

Does he have scars? (I hope not)

[Tax-chick]

No, it doesn’t seem to have done any damage.

He’s not objectively stupid - he’s a National Merit Scholarship finalist - but he’ll set just about anything on fire.

[Enterprise]

OK

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

When I hear people misusing the word “literally” it makes me want to literally slap them upside the head.

[GeronL]

Our culture and schools and parents have all failed to even inculcate the most basic common sense in the next generation, they will literally fall for anything.

Which was probably the goal.

[Mastador1]

You know when we were kids we used put lighter fluid on our hands and light it, the difference being that if you put the lighter fluid out fairly quick you don’t get burned, but rubbing alcohol? Just another sign of how well our education system is working, the liberals must love how many idiots it turns out.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

“Remember kids - don’t try this at home...try this at your friends’ home.”

[dfwgator]

That must be him after the fire, he used to be white.

[Thunder90]

The kid was going for the Darwin award...

[V_TWIN]

Lol

[TexasCajun]

And then he jumps OUT of the shower!!

[Pilgrim's Progress]

So is there a let’s jump off da bridge challenge? or let’s make some wings outta papier mache and fly off the roof challenges? if not, why not?