About 10 to 15 minutes after settling into bed with her fiance, [Brandi] Owens heard a loud pop.... Seconds later, Owens’s 12-year-old daughter, Timiyah Landers, came tearing down the hallway, engulfed in flames from her knees to her hair. She “looked like a fireball,” Owens said. “She was yelling, ‘Help me.’ ”
Owens’s fiance, Marquell Sholar... doused the teen in cold water, Owens grabbed at her daughter’s flaming clothes with her bare hands, ripping them off. “I was reaching through the fire,” Owens said, adding that she didn’t even realize she had burned her hands. “It was like a reflex. . . . I didn’t even feel the fire, I was just saving my daughter.”...
It was the outcome of attempting a viral Internet dare known as the “fire challenge,” which usually involves pouring rubbing alcohol on your body, setting yourself on fire and filming it all.....
August 21, 2018
"Being burned alive was one of the worst things you can imagine. It’s my fault. I can’t say nothing else besides it was a dumb idea."
Said Tamiyah Landers, quoted in "She ‘looked like a fireball’: Internet ‘fire challenge’ leaves 12-year-old Detroit girl severely burned" (WaPo).
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This "internet challenge" stuff is beyond my comprehension.
The Internet Challenge is the kids' version of adults being offended.
Forget it Jake
It's Detroit
John Henry
I am beginning to think every man, woman and child carrying a pocket-size video camera has a downside.
There are limits to what people are willing to do in these stupid things. Set yourself on fire? Sure! But not a single leftie took up the 'Turn In Your Passport Challenge' or the 'Move to Canada Challenge'. Not one. There are limits...
Richard Pryor’s funniest line: “When you is on fire and running down the street... people will get out of your way.”
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Remember when you were a kid and your mother said don't touch the stove burner? Now it's hard for parents to keep with the ever expanding list of "don'ts".
Maybe I should say parent (singular).
Quick, get the marshmallows!
90% of FailArmy is teenage boys doing stupid, dangerous things for videos. You just know some are going to have ER visits and a lifetime of back & neck pain if not brain damage.
Getting a headstart on competing for the Darwin Awards.
Sue, sue, sue.
Bet there is no warning label saying, "Do not pour contents on your person and hold a flame to it" ANYWHERE on the bottle.
Eleanor,
Indeed, 'Mr. Darwin to the red courtesy phone, Mr. Darwin, red phone if you please'.
Pretty sure that, between getting confused about gender and creating new pronouns to formalize the confusion, changing the word 'vagina' to front hole, and internet challenges such as setting yourself on fire and videoing it- for fun, we're watching the last generation in this run of Western Civilization.
Bad is good. Up is down. Men are Women. Socialism is Prosperity. War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength. Freedom is Slavery.
Good luck. Will the last one to leave blow out the candle.
Today we've had two examples of Detroiters- Madonna and Self-Immolation Girl. My old home town. Heh.
Most internet challenges are stupid (saw one on the Toronto Star's twitter feed this morning encouraging people to tip waiters 100% of the bill). But this one is evil.
I suspect the person making the challenge saw "Me, You, and Everyone We Know," but this poor girl did not.
rehajm said...not a single leftie took up the ''Move to Canada Challenge'. Not one.
Wouldn't matter if they did. Canada won't take them unless they fit one of the categories. And annoying stupid American isn't one of the categories.
There are some seriously stupid young people out there. They walk among us. They commit crimes and post incriminating evidence on social media. They engage in an escalating series of dangerous stunts (cinnamon, eating Tide pods, even setting themselves on fire) all to get likes and upvotes on social media from people they don't know. Like I said, seriously stupid.
With apologies to James Taylor, but I've seen fire and I've seen Dane....
"There are some seriously stupid young people out there."
And yet the media gives them a platform. (Hogg, David)
The Darwin Challenge.....see how stupid you are and still retain the ability to live.
I definitely knew someone as a kid who would attempt this stunt (as well as other crazy stunts I won’t bother to mention) on multiple occasions. I was at an age when playing with fire was fun. I have no idea where our parents were through all this. I can’t imagine what would have happened if we’d had today’s internet around to encouraging us to seek out fame for our stupiditiy.
Systemic government racism prevents white and Asian people from participating in the "fire challenge".
I'm sitting here with my mouth open. It assumed that position as I read this post. Seemingly on its own.
-sw
When I was in college a guy in the dorm was drinking shots of flaming peppermint schnapps (you do it in the dark to see the blue flame) but he was a little too drunk and spilled it on himself instead of down his throat and his clothes caught fire and he spun around and fell off the second floor balcony onto the grass below. Did I mention he was very drunk? He didn't get hurt - probably being so drunk meant he had relaxed muscles or something - and he didn't get much smarter either.
So to be clear this was a flaming peppermint schnapps drinking challenge, not a set yourself on fire with alcohol challenge; that part of it was just an accident.
My initial reaction was to be grateful that my children are in their 30s. Then that thought led me to briefly hope that I don't ever have grandchildren.
Teenagers are as dumb as a post. And they want to have the vote...
Geeze.
Was it on Facebook?
Natural unselection.
We really need Crack to explain how this is whitey's fault. I left a message but apparently he's busy on a project with Sarah Jeong.
We have a new category, the Viral Darwin Awards. When endangering yourself and others is a “challenge” there’s a world of hurt coming.
I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Let me rephrase that.
Did the girl see the fire challenge on Facebook?
Rick, did you see the new super-sanitized Sarah Jeong Twitter feed? It’s obvious the NYT put her on a short leash because instead of hating Whitey and loving to be cruel she’s tweeting about how nice a cold glass of water is. Some say it’s hysterical in its own way. YMMV
Mike,
Loved it. Especially the tweets asking why she isn't updating us on the white goblins.
This "internet challenge" stuff is beyond my comprehension.
Each of these various dangerous internet challenges should simply be referred to as The Darwin Challenge.
This was a thing 50 years ago. . .
Daffys Special Trick
Oh that poor girl. How horrible.
I won't say anything about how stupid that was. I don't care how stupid it was. Burns over half her body. I hope she'll be OK somehow.
I was relieved that she was well enough to comment, but I think that's a mistake. The quote in the headline seems to be from a different kid, a 16-year-old in Santa Ana who survived the stunt (article linked within this one).
Richard Feynman would light his hands on fire as a kid doing magic shows, but it was just his hands. He soaked them in cold, cold water first, then dipped them quickly in petroleum ether, then "accidentally" brushed past a flame. The hydrocarbon stayed on the outside of the water layer, and the water evaporating kept him from being burned (until he grew hairs that acted as wicks). Right on the stupid/very-clever borderline - and still dangerous as hell.
From knees to hair. Poor child.
WaPo article:
"...12-year-old daughter..." "...doused the teen..."
Um, no. She's not a teen, since that starts at 13. No wonder we have to take everything that they report with a grain of salt.
I just realized that the Internet is the Darwinian force this world really needs.
Touche RobinGoodfellow.
Blogger Ignorance is Bliss said...
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
8/21/18, 7:27 AM
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Thread winner.
When I was in elementary school, we were all taught to "stop, drop, and roll" in case of being engulfed in flames. I always found it such an odd safety tip. Were children actually finding themselves were "stop, drop, and roll" would come in handy? Apparently, yes.
The STUPID (in action): It BURNS.
Question: Does Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (Google) block these internet challenges to protect their users? Because if you were wanting to protect users by censoring certain things, this seems like a good candidate.
There was one I saw recently where an idiot bathed himself in a tub of concentrated bleach. He had even tested it on a small patch of skin and learned that the burn was serious 2nd degree within just a few seconds, and yet in he went and then to the hospital with what were certainly going to be life altering scarring over his entire body.
Are Planned babies sedated before they are scalped and disassembled into their constituent organs and clumps of cells?
When I worked at University of Michigan hospital, there were a couple of times I did overtime shifts in the burn unit.
Seeing a man who was so horrifically burned that no sheets or bandages could be placed on what was left of his naked quadruple amputated body that was all bloated up like a balloon is something I still remember 30 years later.
Next up: setting yourself on fire while eating Tide pods.
In college buddy of mine lit his arm on fire while downing a flaming shot. All of us laughed at him except for my roommate who tried lighting his cigarette in the flames. Good times.
It was the outcome of attempting a viral Internet dare known as the “fire challenge,” which usually involves pouring rubbing alcohol on your body, setting yourself on fire and filming it all.....
There's no hope for humanity, is there?
Where the hell is that damn comet...?!
I understand the girl forgetting to stop, drop, and roll, but it's unforgivable of the parents. Pulling her clothes off with their bare hands? They were in their bedroom, they could have smothered the fire with blankets.
Stupid people die doing stupid things. She lived. So she'll probably reproduce. I can only imagine what antics her children will be up to with concentrated stupidity.
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