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Boy who injected himself with a crushed butterfly mixed with water 'for online challenge' suffered horrific seven-day slow death, it is revealed - with the insect's toxins feared to be the cause of death
Daily Mail ^ | 2-19-25 | James Reynolds

Posted on 02/19/2025 7:13:45 AM PST by Strict9

Davi Nunes Moreira, 14, died in hospital in Planalto, Brazil last Thursday after telling staff he had injected a solution made of crushed butterfly into his leg.

Believed to have carried out the dangerous procedure as part of an 'online challenge', Moreira began vomiting and struggled to walk before admitting his mistake.

The youngster was taken into hospital by his father and remained in the Vitória da Conquista general hospital for a week, receiving specialised support, before he died.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: admitsmistake; imbecile; stupidity
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To: Strict9

TIKTOK KILLS PEOPLE.


61 posted on 02/19/2025 8:38:30 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
When I was 14 we played Nick Knocking where you knocked on someone’s door and ran away and hid and watched...

We called that Ring and Run or Ding Dong Ditch, sometimes a flaming bag of dog poop was added on the front porch if someone wanted to go for the Two-fer.

62 posted on 02/19/2025 8:40:35 AM PST by dznutz
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To: Strict9; dinodino; Fresh Wind; ansel12; AbolishCSEU; Getready; dp0622
I have done a lot of reading recently about transgender. This article titled Gender Ideology Run Amok by Abigail Shrier comes to mind for this case.

"Prior to 2012, in fact, there was no scientific literature on gender dysphoria arising in teenage girls. Dr. Lisa Littman, then a Brown University public health researcher, used the phrase “rapid onset gender dysphoria” to refer to the subsequent sudden spike in transgender identification among teenage girls with no childhood history of gender dysphoria."

"This spike is not unique to America—we see it across the Western world. To offer just one statistic, there has been a decade-to-decade increase of over 4,400 percent in the number of teenage girls seeking treatment at the United Kingdom’s national gender clinic. Across the West, teen girls are now the leading demographic claiming to have gender dysphoria."

"What is behind this is social contagion—the spread of ideas, emotions, and behaviors through peer influence, one more instance of teenage girls sharing and spreading their pain. There is a long history of social contagion with this demographic—anorexia and bulimia are also spread this way. And we know that teen girls today are in the midst of the worst mental health crisis on record, with the highest rates of anxiety, self-harm, and clinical depression."

63 posted on 02/19/2025 8:41:57 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Fresh Wind

Tick Tock is very different in China. No stupid people dancing or otherwise dumb activities, they have things like teaching their children how to play musical instruments, how to study, how to draw, etc. They want to culturally and intellectually improve their population, especially the kids.


64 posted on 02/19/2025 8:44:09 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: Retain Mike

There is a reason that advertisers and cult leaders and the cultural fad/celebrity industries, etc., make their existence off the female sex.


65 posted on 02/19/2025 8:45:20 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Strict9

Well, I’ll just cross that one off my to-do list.


66 posted on 02/19/2025 8:47:28 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ansel12
‘Thammy MC’ was left unable to walk after standing in a bucket of ice and salt for an online ‘dare’ that turned her feet black and nearly required the amputation of her toes.

At least she won the dare.

67 posted on 02/19/2025 8:50:49 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Fresh Wind

(Tik Tok makes you stupid)

Same thing with a WHOLE LOT of YouTube “influencers”


68 posted on 02/19/2025 9:01:52 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dznutz

My backside would have been skinned by Dad if we had done the poop bit...


69 posted on 02/19/2025 9:08:51 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Strict9

I tried jumping off of the doghouse with an umbrella on a windy day hoping I could fly like Mary Poppins. Didn’t break my leg, or anything. Just scraped my knee.


70 posted on 02/19/2025 9:09:15 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

you lucky bastard


71 posted on 02/19/2025 9:10:48 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Strict9

Just the top was frozen....


72 posted on 02/19/2025 9:11:25 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: FamiliarFace

I put some gasoline in a small dixie cup because one of the neighborhood kids said it would sparkle when lit. I caught the gas can and the dixie cup on fire. Luckily, a neighbor quickly jumped the fence to smother the fire. Then it was Woodshed time.


73 posted on 02/19/2025 9:13:01 AM PST by Pol-92064
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To: Strict9

It was just a doghouse. Maybe 4 or 5 feet high. ;)


74 posted on 02/19/2025 9:16:14 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Strict9

Nope that was for yiu, I was just agreeing. As for the other fellow he does bring up a point that Trump was impeached, almost jailed and shot and no one did anything. He wasn’t lying.


Perhaps. However, he reminded me of the scene in “The Crow” where the meth-head called “Skank” went off on a long rambling screed and the boss said “Maybe we should just record him and play it back at half-speed so we can understand what the hell he’s talking about.


75 posted on 02/19/2025 9:25:24 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Pol-92064

Now that’s good luck your neighbor was around.

When I was an adult, two hoodlums in our neighborhood lit a fire in my backyard. I yelled at them, put out the fire, called their mom and told her what they did, and they got a pat on the back. I hated those neighbors. They weren’t even next door neighbors. They lived around the corner from us.


76 posted on 02/19/2025 9:25:54 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Tennessee Nana

We were grabbing car bumpers and “shagging a ride.”


77 posted on 02/19/2025 9:27:44 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Fireone

Not mine when it comes to kids. They are not mature yet. They need gradually decreasing monitoring and protection until they reach adulthood.


78 posted on 02/19/2025 9:37:53 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Persevero

I respectfully disagree, in this case.
This ‘kid’ was 14, that’s not a kid, that’s old enough to make wiser choices.
At no point in my young life did I ever think about sticking needles into my body, let alone with butterfly parts inside.


79 posted on 02/19/2025 9:51:00 AM PST by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Strict9

The internet is Satan’s playground.

God fearing folk recognize that and never let their guard down when interacting on the internet.


80 posted on 02/19/2025 9:55:09 AM PST by Biblebelter
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