Newest Tik Tok stupidity nearly kills a teenager...

[Archae]

Thing is, we could be just as stupid at times, 50+ years ago.

I knew a few guys who'd brag about "driving home on autopilot."
(Translation: Driving home blind drunk.)

Boy badly burned attempting TikTok challenge

EAST HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - Dangerous social media challenges have resulted in injury and even death, including a new one called “The Whoosh Bottle Experiment” that sent a Connecticut boy to the hospital.

The experiment, which is sweeping across TikTok, involves people pouring rubbing alcohol into a plastic jug then lighting it on fire. When ignited, it makes a “whoosh” sound.

The East Haven Fire Department says a teenager was badly burned Dec. 28 while imitating the TikTok experiment, WFSB reports. He is being treated at the Bridgeport Hospital Burn Center for severe injuries.

https://www.wbay.com/2022/01/03/boy-badly-burned-attempting-tiktok-challenge/

[3Hotdogs]

1. Now the way I hear it, If you REALLY support Donald Trump, well... the 1st anniversary of the

January 6th Glorious Restoration is coming up.

I encourage all of The Great Donald's patriots to, "Make A Woosh," at 2:00 P.M. (P.M. -- that means its in the afternoon) on January 6th. That's the time the Glorious Restoration started.



Let's all honor Donald for the hope and inspiration he gave us.

[Vinca]

2. I don't know. I know a whole lot of people who did stupid things 50 years ago -

including me - and we never ended up setting ourselves on fire. Come to think of it, I think the dumbest thing I did (more than 50 years ago) was swallow raw eggs on a bet during a teenage sleepover.

[gratuitous]

3. The other good thing about doing stupid things 50 years ago

Is that our nitwit stunts (I plead guilty to one or two or a dozen) weren't recorded and enshrined forever on the internet.

[Vinca]

7. LOL - nor were our "racier" moments.

[JanMichael]

4. Did something similar in the 70's as a kid. Take two tennis ball cans. Cut the bottom off one...

...and tape them together with duct tape. Pour some lighter fluid or other flammable liquid i...wait should I post the rest? will some kid blow their face off if they try this?

bummer.

[JHB]

5. Rest assured, no susceptible kid is reading what fogeys on DU think

If it ain't on video on the right apps, it doesn't exist.

At least, for this sort of thing.

[JanMichael]

6. True. At 54 I feel like one of the youngest DUers.

It has trended older and older and older since I started in 2001.

Obviously the people that started in 2001 would have gotten 20 years older but it doesn't seem like we get a lot of new younger people here anymore.

So anyway you dropped the tennis ball into the tube and then drop a match on top of that and it will shoot the tennis ball several hundred yards flaming into the distance.

Don't put your face over the tube.