Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral 'Boiling Water Challenge' (abc13.com)

A burn surgeon at Loyola University Medical has treated eight different people for second and third-degree burns after they attempted to replicate the viral "boiling water challenge," according to one local news station. These people (like many others as seen across social media) heated water and threw it into the sub-zero air, expecting it to transform into a powder-like state and blow away in the wind. But that apparently didn't work out for everyone; sometimes the water stayed liquid and hit people. The youngest patient seen at Loyola is 3 years old. Sanford said that individual (like some of the other patients) was just standing next to someone else throwing the water.... Sanford said there are likely several others out there with first degree burns that didn't seek medical attention.
CNN Wire Services also reports at least three more "boiling water challenge" burn victims in Minneapolis and Iowa.

Comments

Re:Should be Illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

shut the fuck up

"Call it evolution in action"

[Rick Schumann]

Never underestimate our species' immense capacity for stupidity.

Re:"Call it evolution in action"

[Aighearach]

The child survived.

There was no selection event.

No evolution happened.

My goodness, educational standards have sure fallen.

Re:"Call it evolution in action"

[KiloByte]

It wasn't the child, it was someone next to it. The idiot who threw the boiling water should be prosecuted for assault -- at this point, this can't be argued to be an accident, it's more like shooting into the air on a crowded street,

Killing an innocent bystander is no selection, at least unless the trait we're selecting against isn't "don't stand near dangerous morons".

Re: Darwin Challenge:

[Anonymous Coward]

Mum: Ifeveryone else was jumping off a cliff...
Today's kids: Yes, Mum. Yes I would.

Re:Should be Illegal

[HarrySquatter]

Why are you right-wingers so obsessed with her? She's a junior representative with no actual power yet you all can't stop talking about her.

Re:Should be Illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

She's 1, female and 2, ethnic latina, and 3, up and coming Democrat, and 4, they can't get laid in a whorehouse, being nazi INCEL Republicans. 5, pity their wasted lives, they 6, back a traitor who 7, will either hang for treason or rot in 8, prison.

Re:Hydrochloric acid challenge next?

[Type44Q]

In general we have removed the positive effects of natural selection from our society, which is leading us to a rather bleak future (just watch the semi-fictional film "idiocracy" for a good extrapolation).

No. The reason we have an "idiot problem" is certainly not because society restrains itself from euthanizing them; it's because society makes a special effort to produce them.

Re:Stupid people are stupid

[Solandri]

I just had someone argue that a candle could heat an entire room in case of emergency, you just had to put it on fire bricks and a flower pot, the bricks would heat up (somehow) and give off heat.

A single candle won't. But a candle gives off about 50-100 Watts of thermal energy. It's actually close to the thermal output of a human body at rest (about 80-100 Watts). So if the overriding survival concern was temperature (instead of, say, pollutants in the air), then yes, one or two candles will put out as much heat as having another person in the room. And two or three dozen candles will put out as much heat as a 1500W space heater.

People just think candles are weak because they are spectacularly inefficient as a light source. IIRC only 0.04% of the energy goes into light; the rest is given off as heat. So that Earth Day tradition where businesses turn off their 12% efficient T8 fluorescent ceiling lights and use candles instead actually wastes a phenomenal amount of energy. A single T8 bulb consumes 32 Watts, or about as much as those small tea candles. But puts out a helluva lot more light.

That's painfully obvious

[rsilvergun]

and you're missing my point. She's using the same playbook but for different ends. She's using New Media (Twitter, Youtube, etc) to by pass the media filter and get her message out. It works for her because she's cute and charismatic. Trump pulled it off with Celebrity, but same thing. And she doesn't back down or apologize for gaffs. That's key. Voters are like sharks in a pool, they smell blood they're on you in a second.

Politics has changed and she changed with it. That's why they're scared shitless of her.

And Trump is not a centrists, he's an opportunist. He has no actually political beliefs whatsoever. He's taken virtually every position possible but when it came time to put policy in action everything he did was to benefit him and his. He's a Kleptocrat.