13-year-old girl severely burned while imitating TikTok video, family says

ABC ^ | May 29, 2021, | Meredith Deliso

[BenLurkin]

Destini is currently unable to speak to tell them what happened. But based on what they found in the bathroom and after talking to her friends, they believe the seventh grader...was trying to copy a TikTok video in which someone draws a shape using a flammable liquid on a mirror and then lights it on fire.

Destini brought into the bathroom a candle, lighter and bottle of rubbing alcohol, which they believe exploded in the poorly ventilated space, setting her and other items on fire... When they retrieved Destini's phone, TikTok was still recording video...

Destini has been in the intensive care unit ever since, and her family is hoping she will be able to move to the burn unit soon for further care. She will likely need several more months to recover, including inpatient rehabilitation to regain use of her arm and mobility in her neck, shoulders and fingers...

The family has said their church and Destini's school have been supportive since the incident happened. Andrea Crane, a student at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, has also moved back home to help care for her sister...

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[Eagles6]

Tik Tok is a tool of the Chicoms, Big Tech and the left being used to rot the brains of our young...and not so young.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I remember back to some of the stupid sht I did when young. First thing you’d do was look around to make sure nobody saw you. Now the in thing is to record yourself for posterity. Crazy times.

[Truthoverpower]

Very sad

Play with fire - you get burned

Now to be honest I was quite the pyromaniac when I was a youth ;but somehow survived it

I went as far as stealing pyrotechnical chemicals from the chemistry lab which me and my friends are a lot of fun with

My absolute favorite was phosphorus dissolved in carbon disulfide

This liquid would put on a piece of paper or a fire cracker for that matter would sit there for about two minutes until the carbon disulfide with evaporate and then flash! It would just spontaneously combust

You can imagine how much fun that was in high school with smoke bombs and firecrackers

My other favorite one was elemental sodium

Elemental sodium is a shiny metal that you can cut with a knife

If you take a piece of sodium and you put it in water; it violently reacts and gives off hydrogen gas

One of my favorite pastimes was take a gallon milk container fill it 1/3 with water throw a piece of sodium in there but the cap on and throw it

💥 BOOM! Good fun. Then sirens.

We’d be long gone on our bikes

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am sorry she was so badly injured, but some people have to learn the hard way. I read here yesterday that some college students got freaked out by a flag hanging from a construction crane, thinking it was a noose. A few years ago, also at a college, a banana peel stuck in a tree was thought to be a hate crime. With all of the stunning lamebrainedness out there, I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that a teen might think it fun to set a mirror on fire in an enclosed space. I must not be creative enough, but I have never once thought about setting a mirror on fire, inside or outside.

[ConservativeInPA]

those who posted such dangerous videos should be held accountable.

Bull crap. It's called good parenting and taking personal responsibility. While tragic, it really is no one else fault.

[kiryandil]

Don't worry, though - social media has prevented that Mean Old Trump from making mean old tweets!

Meanwhile, dangerous crap like this gets a total pass...

[Brown Bag Special]

Darwin is quickly running out of awards.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

When I was about 12, my friends and I decided we wanted to build a rocket, and one of us somehow had a formula for gunpowder or something like it. We found out we could buy the ingredients from a pharmacy, but when we asked the pharmacist, he refused to sell them them to us.

Then we discovered we could get rocket kits and ready-made engines from Estes Industries.

[rockrr]

First thing you’d do was look around to make sure nobody saw you.

That was your training kicking in. Even if your sense of common sense was malfunctioning, your sense of shame still worked. Nowadays the things that shame taught us to suppress or reject are things that kids eagerly share with the world.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I learned to make a crude form of black powder when I was 10 or 11. You had to buy the ingredients in separate places, or at least at different times. Pharmacists usually aren’t stupid.

Remember the waterproof fuse you could buy from the ad in the back of Popular Mechanics? Good stuff.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yeah, we didn’t figure on the pharmacist catching on to us, but I guess that worked out for the best.

[FamiliarFace]

I know I am old school, but 12 year olds have cell phones? And in the classroom, no less?

I guess there are no real parents anymore.

I know I was unpopular with my kids for being a “mean mom”. I didn’t allow my daughter to wear makeup until she was 15. No cell phone until she had her driver’s license. No dating until she was 16.

The boys had the same rules, except they never asked for make up, thankfully.

My husband and I had to have a backbones to be a good parents. It wasn’t easy to have rules and stick with them.

[bigbob]

Yeah, times we tried doing a wheelie on our bikes or got a black eye playing Tarzan we could lie and say we ran into a door. Now everything is recorded for future generations to see your dumbassery.

[al_c]

Social media is the downfall of society.

[PapaBear3625]

I spent the weekend at my brother's campsite and I guess everything there revolves around Facebook from ordering firewood to tracking cornhole tournament standings. They were stunned when I told them I did not have a FB account. It was like I was a relic out of the 20th Century.

Having seen how often a FaceBook posting gets the poster losing his job because annoyed leftists swarm his employer, I decided I would not be on FB, Twitter, or any other social media platform where my real-world identity is readily findable.

[Bulwyf]

That’s a common injury in enclosed spaces. The poor lady in the 90s that I can remember from my home town was doing her hair, using who knows how much hairspray and decided to have a cigarette as well. She flash burned her lungs so badly she died on the spot.

[Bulwyf]

Take them out of public schools, figure out a homeschool coop or something like that in your area. Schools aren’t our friends period.

[metmom]

I heard of someone who spray painted their bathroom and lit a cig and same thing happened.

[Hot Tabasco]

TTIUWV

I don't speak acronym nor do the majority of folks here. But here is my Acronymic response:

TJIFKWWZ

[Bikkuri]

"Yeah, times we tried doing a wheelie on our bikes or got a black eye playing Tarzan we could lie and say we ran into a door. Now everything is recorded for future generations to see your dumbassery."

First time riding a 10-speed and slam on the front brake (face plant with added road-rash on face).