Teens taking the "Fire Challenge" are just so cool

[kenny]

1. In mom and dad's bathroom set on your cameraphone to record.
2. Stand in a shower stall, but with the water off to be extra-cool.
3. Pour isopropyl alcohol on your chest.
4. Light it.
5. Enjoy bragging rights at school ... (when you get out of the hospital for your skin grafts)

Now that my brain has developed it's too late to be this cool.
I just wish we had Youtube back when I was a stupid adolescent.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/08/01/pkg-kids-fire-challenge-danger.kctv.html

 

[ruby59]

It has got to be a macho guy thing. Girls would not be that stupid.

 

[movie zombie]

and as forrest gump so accurately stated, "stupid is as stupid does".

 

[packrat]

Can't fix gloopy.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Yup. In my days, it was lighter fluid, though.

 

[stracci2000]

I agree with Ruby. A teen girl would never do this, because the eyelahes and hair are way too important to mess up. We girls worry so much about self-image!

 

[kenny]

It has got to be a macho guy thing. Girls would not be that stupid.

Ouch!
May we call you Miss. Andry?

 

[TC1987]

So stupid. Every day, I thank my lucky stars that I never had any children. Revoke the child labor laws and put the little twits back to manual labor.

 

[TooPatient]

It has got to be a macho guy thing. Girls would not be that stupid.

Actually, one of the articles I saw showed a girl doing this...

 

[HollyS]

A FB friend has posted a local news video of a young girl whose friend threw perfume on her and lit it.

Not only will girls do it, someone may do it to an unwilling child. Your child. How frightening is that?

Lord have mercy.

 

[iluvshinythings]

"Darwin!" (if you are stupid enough to set yourself on fire maybe you should stay out of the gene pool)

But if someone did that to my child I would hope it would be labeled an assault.

 

[momhappy]

Meh. We've all done stupid things as teens (some worse than others).