Darwin Awards....Quarterfinalist....Nice showing but not likely to capture top spot

[HeavyAssault]

Oregon teen hospitalized with severe burns after attempting viral TikTok fire challenge

An Oregon teen was hospitalized with severe burns after accidentally lighting herself on fire while attempting a viral TikTok challenge earlier this month, according to a local report and her family.

www.foxnews.com

Keep it up people, there's plenty of time to capture the top honors.

 

[whatsupdoc]

Teenagers are about the stupidest beings on earth.

 

[theLBC]

 

[Carlos Danger]

Worry not. If there's one thing I'm convinced of it's that stupid alive, widespread, and growing. There seems to be some unadvertised contest with the grand prize being eternal existance or free Slurpies for life.

 

[theLBC]

Worry not. If there's one thing I'm convinced of it's that stupid alive, widespread, and growing. There seems to be some unadvertised contest with the grand prize being eternal existance or free Slurpies for life.

there is this guy that explained how many millennials were raised with terrible parenting, and then trained to expect instant gratification, never having had to look up anything in a library...everything they wanted delivered to their door the next day...
basically spoiled brats that were given participation trophies for sucking at whatever, and now expect rewards for sucking at their jobs.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Kinda sad really.

 

[candyx]

Teenagers are about the stupidest beings on earth.

I take it you never been to the White House........

 

[diggler1833]

We really, really need to remove the warning labels on everything and give natural selection a chance...

 

[Redmanss]

Sorry, but there's nothing humorous or Darwinistic about a 13 y/o girl not understanding just how flammable and dangerous isopropyl alcohol is and having to endure life altering skin grafts and a tracheotomy as a result.

This is just sad.

 

[Animal357]

Stupid breeds more than the rest of us

 

[Bullfrog08]

I dont want to even think about the stupid shit we did at 13. We all just got lucky....she didnt!

 

[Redmanss]

I dont want to even think about the stupid shit we did at 13. We all just got lucky....she didnt!

Yep, many of us damn sure grew up without adult supervision for 23 1/2 hours a day. I cut apart bottle rockets and fire crackers by the hundreds for the powder, packed it tight into small glass model paint jars and lit them off, huge boom. And that was while I was 10, never mind all the other stupid shit I did when I really thought I knew better. Things like moving through minefields and running at a big gaping hole in the perimeter wall a VBIED just ripped and BBIEDs were pouring though, all of which would have been "Darwin Award" worthy if they turned out a split-second different. To this day I'm amazed, and thankful, I have all the parts I was born with.

I recommend taking this as a teaching moment to your kids, nieces/nephews, brothers and sisters, and anyone else you're close to that's at a very impressionable age and/or mindset. Remind them yet again there's a lot of stupid people on the internet, this thread not excluded, and it's best to not mimic the vast majority of shit they see out there. Including and especially, reveling in the pain and suffering of a young girl who *GASP* just wanted to be cool and popular like any teenager does.

 

[candyx]

Maybe parents shouldn't give smart phones to their children exiting the birthing canal , social platforms are very educating it seems.

 

[BullGear]

This kind of stuff has been going on for at least the 60 years I've been alive. My dad talked about kids drinking pure grain alcohol when he was a kid in the 30's.

 

[EddieNFL]

Yep, many of us damn sure grew up without adult supervision for 23 1/2 hours a day. I cut apart bottle rockets and fire crackers by the hundreds for the powder, packed it tight into small glass model paint jars and lit them off, huge boom.

I used shotgun hulls.

 

[pmclaine]

Sorry, but there's nothing humorous or Darwinistic about a 13 y/o girl not understanding just how flammable and dangerous isopropyl alcohol is and having to endure life altering skin grafts and a tracheotomy as a result.

This is just sad.

Completely agree.

Despite my warnings/misgivings my daughter is a Tik Tok person. She is 13.

We spoke of this exact incident last night.

My daughter was in the midst of doing a Tik Tok craft she saw. Take two plastic knives, heat each individually over a candle and bend mid point at 90 degrees, than "weld" the two blade points together over the candle to make a set of "granny glasses" because wearing "Granny glasses" is a fun thing for thirteen year old girls to do I guess.

Having blackened sights with a burning spork I am super aware of the sound of flaming plastic making a "ziiiiip" noise as it drops earthward at lava like temperatures. On skin it would be maiming....on the appropriate burnable fabric life threatening.

This is the scene in which I brought up the girl blowing up her bathroom.

Im glad my daughter is out of her slime recipe stage....that one had her and her friend using some vodka as part of the ingredients.....I think I still have boxes of slime shit hidden away in my ammo pile when I took all that shit away.

Call them dumb if you want but I might have been 12 when I discovered gasoline floats on water and will still burn while on the concrete patio blowing up Tamiya models with firecrackers and gas.

 

[W54/XM-388]

Perhaps somebody should sue the social media companies over the injuries and see how they like it.
They probably wouldn't win but perhaps the negative publicity might help parents save their kids lives.

 

[Choid]

I think the only thing that saved my life as a teenager is that I was limited to bad ideas from other teens in about a thirty mile radius.

 

[pmclaine]

Yep, many of us damn sure grew up without adult supervision for 23 1/2 hours a day. I cut apart bottle rockets and fire crackers by the hundreds for the powder, packed it tight into small glass model paint jars and lit them off, huge boom. And that was while I was 10, never mind all the other stupid shit I did when I really thought I knew better. Things like moving through minefields and running at a big gaping hole in the perimeter wall a VBIED just ripped and BBIEDs were pouring though, all of which would have been "Darwin Award" worthy if they turned out a split-second different. To this day I'm amazed, and thankful, I have all the parts I was born with.

I recommend taking this as a teaching moment to your kids, nieces/nephews, brothers and sisters, and anyone else you're close to that's at a very impressionable age and/or mindset. Remind them yet again there's a lot of stupid people on the internet, this thread not excluded, and it's best to not mimic the vast majority of shit they see out there. Including and especially, reveling in the pain and suffering of a young girl who *GASP* just wanted to be cool and popular like any teenager does.

Probably still have a piece of Coke bottle glass in my inner left thigh from putting a bottle rocket into a bottle full of water point down.

At the time I felt it, saw the little spot of blood with the 1/4 inch hole and thought it was cool like getting hit by shrapnel from a German 88 or something.

Lucky it didnt get an eye or something more vital like a nut sack.

 

[Redmanss]

Completely agree.

Despite my warnings/misgivings my daughter is a Tik Tok person. She is 13.

We spoke of this exact incident last night.

My daughter was in the midst of doing a Tik Tok craft she saw. Take two plastic knives, heat each individually over a candle and bend mid point at 90 degrees, than "weld" the two blade points together over the candle to make a set of "granny glasses" because wearing "Granny glasses" is a fun thing for thirteen year old girls to do I guess.

Having blackened sights with a burning spork I am super aware of the sound of flaming plastic making a "ziiiiip" noise as it drops earthward at lava like temperatures. On skin it would be maiming....on the appropriate burnable fabric life threatening.

This is the scene in which I brought up the girl blowing up her bathroom.

Im glad my daughter is out of her slime recipe stage....that one had her and her friend using some vodka as part of the ingredients.....I think I still have boxes of slime shit hidden away in my ammo pile when I took all that shit away.

Call them dumb if you want but I might have been 12 when I discovered gasoline floats on water and will still burn while on the concrete patio blowing up Tamiya models with firecrackers and gas.

I had a buddy in sixth grade that heard how to make “napalm” by melting styrofoam in gasoline, so of course we had to try it. We never lit it outside a fire pit though, but once again we as kids did some REALLY stupid shit.

Good deal on your little girl, Bravo-Zulu.

 

[pmclaine]

Perhaps somebody should sue the social media companies over the injuries and see how they like it.
They probably wouldn't win but perhaps the negative publicity might help parents save their kids lives.

The scary part is I think some of that shit is posted in hopes it will be copied and end in bad outcomes.

That Russian whale challenge shit is sick.

Who cares about how fucked up social media is......6 year old kids are being taught to masturbate in their schools now.

The whole environment is toxic for these kids. Greta Thunberg thinks her child hood is being robbed because I eat burgers yet doesnt complain about the violence and sexual shit kids are being confronted with and are unprepared to process.

People ridicule with the comment "what do you want to do? Go back to the 1950's?"

Yes, yes I do, please now! Make it 1/1/1950.

 

[hlee]

The 50s were not what you saw on ”Nick at Night.” Is that even still a thing?

That was the whole point of the movie “Pleasantville...”

 

[Maggot]

Yep, many of us damn sure grew up without adult supervision for 23 1/2 hours a day. I cut apart bottle rockets and fire crackers by the hundreds for the powder, packed it tight into small glass model paint jars and lit them off, huge boom. And that was while I was 10, never mind all the other stupid shit I did when I really thought I knew better. Things like moving through minefields and running at a big gaping hole in the perimeter wall a VBIED just ripped and BBIEDs were pouring though, all of which would have been "Darwin Award" worthy if they turned out a split-second different. To this day I'm amazed, and thankful, I have all the parts I was born with.

I recommend taking this as a teaching moment to your kids, nieces/nephews, brothers and sisters, and anyone else you're close to that's at a very impressionable age and/or mindset. Remind them yet again there's a lot of stupid people on the internet, this thread not excluded, and it's best to not mimic the vast majority of shit they see out there. Including and especially, reveling in the pain and suffering of a young girl who *GASP* just wanted to be cool and popular like any teenager does.

By 10 we were already making flash powder out of potassium permanganate and aluminum dust. Pack it inside a copper pipe, stick in a fuse, cramt the ends shut in a vise, and voila' instant maim. Fortunately the worst thing I blew up was my parents basement and burnt off my eyebrows.

 

[BullGear]

Look at what a kid could do with one of those Chemical lab sets. Some of the Chemicals in those kids you can't get now without some kind of permit from the government.

Anyone remember making snakes with chemicals? We weren't told not to eat it, we just knew not to. We didn't have to have warning labels. Today's kids seem have to be told how to rationalize almost everything in their lives.

 

[hlee]

We weren't told not to eat it, we just knew not to.

This really is the issue. There just seems to be a part of the population that don’t process cause/effect or risk/reward relationships.

 

[BullGear]

This really is the issue. There just seems to be a part of the population that don’t process cause/effect or risk/reward relationships.

Don't get me wrong, there were some kids back in the day that didn't have any common sense. But today, it seems like common sense isn't all that common anymore.

 

[Son of Dorn]

Look at what a kid could do with one of those Chemical lab sets. Some of the Chemicals in those kids you can't get now without some kind of permit from the government.

Anyone remember making snakes with chemicals? We weren't told not to eat it, we just knew not to. We didn't have to have warning labels. Today's kids seem have to be told how to rationalize almost everything in their lives.

How 'bout this one? I can think of a couple things that could go wrong with uranium...

Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity

The ORAU Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity chronicles the scientific and commercial history of radioactivity and radiation. It has been deemed the official repository for historical radiological instruments by the Health Physics Society, and is located at the Professional Training Programs...

www.orau.org

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Match heads work really well in those little glass model paint bottles. The local store would even sell them to us if we said it was for our parents.

 

[BullGear]

Match heads work really well in those little glass model paint bottles. The local store would even sell them to us if we said it was for our parents.

Get a box of wooden stick matches. Get some aluminum foil. Cut the foil into 1 inch squares. now wrap the foil tightly around the head of the match.

Set the match in or on something at about a 30-45 degree angle. Now use a lighter to heat the foil. When the match ignites, it acts like a bottle rocket and will shoot 10-15 feet.

Fun time had by all...

 

[diggler1833]

I hate to say it...but kids these days have less of an excuse (adults too) to act stupid than we did 20-40 years ago. They literally learn how to do dangerous shit...by watching other people get fucked up doing the same thing on their cell phones.

How many dumbasses have permanently removed the hair off of their taint by failing to launch a skyrocket out if their ass? 59 million people on YouTube have seen dozens of agonizing fails, so why is it every July 6th we have 17 more new videos of kids and drunks having to go to the hospital with second degree burns around their asshole? The only reason why it wasn't uploaded on the 5th is because Kyle was still in a hospital bed having nurse Sausage Fingers apply ointment to his butthole.

^ By the way...I live watching those fail videos. I can hardly wait for July 6th again