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'Salt and ice' another dangerous challenge attracting kids
Deseret News ^
| 8.23.2012
| Lois M. Collins
Posted on 08/23/2012 1:22:13 PM PDT by Morgana
A new teen fad called "the salt and ice challenge" is drawing crowds on social networking sites and YouTube. But like other teen "challenges," it has proven to be dangerous. And health-care experts are telling parents to talk to their kids about the risks.
In Pittsburgh, a 12-year-old boy will spend the summer recovering as a result of having a large cross burned into his back by his twin brother and a pal as part of this newest challenge, according to the Post-Gazette. He ended up in the West Penn Burn Center for treatment.
For the challenge, tweens and teens put salt on their skin and then press ice into it to see who can tolerate the pain the longest. The longer the ice is pressed into the salt, the more serious the injury. CBS Pittsburgh noted that when salt comes in contact with ice, the freezing point of the ice is lowered as the salt dissolves. And that's a process that borrows energy from what is close by. In the case of this teen stunt, what is nearby is human flesh, so the energy is pulled from skin and "you get a burn similar to frostbite."
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ice; napl; salt
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Despite the drought, the US has raised a bumper crop of stupid.
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08/24/2012 11:50:23 AM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Morgana
The same principle is used with ice cream makers. Pity they didn’t stick with ice cream...
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08/24/2012 12:03:03 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Slings and Arrows
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08/24/2012 1:24:05 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: Darksheare
Your coffee has salt, doesn’t it?
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08/24/2012 7:05:18 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: fso301
We used to see who could hold their hand in the ice cream bucket the longest.First thing I thought of, too.
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08/24/2012 7:16:06 PM PDT
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ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: Slings and Arrows
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08/25/2012 11:27:05 AM PDT
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Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: Darksheare
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08/25/2012 11:43:49 AM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Can I still deny involvement?
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08/25/2012 12:44:01 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: Darksheare
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08/25/2012 2:01:49 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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