Posted on 07/31/2018 4:42:06 AM PDT by simpson96
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WKRC) - Adding another page to the book of "ways people on the internet injure themselves or others for fun" is the simply-named "Hot Water Challenge".
The "challenge" involves either drinking boiling water or pouring it on a friend. Predictably, (and sadly) the "challenge" has already killed a child in Florida.
Now, a teenager in Indiana is still living with the wounds and scars of the dangerous new "challenge".
15-year-old Kyland Clark says that he and a friend saw "Hot Water Challenge" videos on YouTube and that when he fell asleep, his friend poured hot water on him.
It was supposed to be just a joke.
"And then, like, I looked down at my chest, and my skin just fell off my chest. And then I went and I looked in a mirror and then I had skin falling off right here and on my face," he said.
Clark suffered second-degree burns on the face, chest, and back. It put him in the hospital for a week. Doctors admit that they've been seeing more and more victims of internet "challenges" end up in the emergency room these days.
"And, it's suggesting to people that they can try it and they won't be hurt, but they will be. I can guarantee it," said Dr. Ed Bartkus, EMS Director at Methodist Hospital. "If your friends are telling you to do this, they are not good friends."
Dr. Bartkus says that the "challenge" can lead to permanent disfigurement from the burns if poured on someone. If someone drinks it, and severely burns their throat, the burns to the airway could close it, causing death.
According to doctors, Clark's wounds will heal and the pigment in his skin should be back to normal in a few months.
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“some people you just cant reach”
The stupid it BURNS!
Stupid SHOULD HURT!! FYI. when it comes to wet burns. sheets, clothes, jackets, underwear, all cause the burns to be much much worse because the liquid sticks to your skin longer. hot water + sheets and a mattress.. is a disaster
Great generation: School shooters who can’t determine their own gender despite being teenagers and who eat Tide PODS and pour scalding-hot water on one another. Truly Hogg is the mind of this generation.
Millennial 1: Eating Tide pods has become passe. I wish there was someting even stupider we could do to demonstrate the utter spiritual bankruptcy of our generation.
Millennial 2: I know! Let’s dump boiling water on ourselves!
Millennial 1: You’re a genius! You put the kettle on. I’ll get my phone.
And they vote, to the left.
It’s not an internet challenge. It’s a posting of a stupid action that is accessed through the internet. The internet is a network.
The problem is the irresponsible fools who post things like this, and the ignorant fools who don’t have anything productive to do and who carry out the idiocies.
We get to pay for it, since ER care is “free.” (Paid for by those suckers who have jobs.)
When this guy gets better, he should beat the hell out of the 'friend' who did this.
Seriously? What next, the .44 Magnum Challenge?
These kids are living rebuttals to the Flynn Effect.
With friends like that....
Future leaders of this Republic? Maybe they will decide to trade nukes with each other.
“You mean boiling water burns!?”
What a bunch of mentally stunted idjits are out there!
The stupidity level here is unreal. Has common sense gone totally out the window? Lots of Darwin Award Candidates here.
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