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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.
CNN Wire Services also reports at least three more "boiling water challenge" burn victims in Minneapolis and Iowa.
Burn your bits and pieces off for an internet meme.
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). These stunts are one of the few natural selection sources left - whoever does a hydrochloric acid test for example should be removed from the human genome anyway. The problem is when bystanders get the effect instead of the idiot performing the actually stupidity... :D
It is definitely not news for nerds though, I don't see how it even remotely warrants inclusion on slashdot... Then again, I am not new here...
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Never underestimate our species' immense capacity for stupidity.
Let's see if people can get rid of demodex mites in their eyelashes using a high-powered laser pointer. Just be careful not to point the beam directly into the iris.
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The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Sometimes I turn pessimistic and think that we need a good war (or maybe measles) to clear out the country of morons and people who are half stumbling through life on autopilot, making a mockery of the struggles we went through as a country to give people the prosperity we enjoy today.
They see a video and instantly believe it. The water has to go through a phase transition and shed a ton of energy doing that (something like 500 cal/g) and depending on the size of the droplet will take at least 2-30 minutes, not seconds.
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.
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Global Warming Causes Severe Burns
Subhead: Winter Temperatures Too Warm for Viral Boiling Water Challenge
Who could have predicted that flinging a container full of boiling water in the air right next to them would be dangerous!? Next you're going to tell me that it's dangerous to drink boiling water or pour it on someone.
They should put a warning on it if it's that dangerous.
I tried doing this. It took some lateral thinking, but I figured it would be smart to throw the water away from myself and others, and not straight up. I already knew it was unwise to throw it against the wind due to a preceding incident involving having to go to the bathroom while camping.
Nature doesn't need that much brain-dead people.
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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.
Maybe AOC could help you with your vagina problem.
Sure, in a macabre way they're entertaining, but then I remember that if they can make it to 18 they will be eligible to vote.
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.
To instill the proper amount of deep-seated hatred, not only for this generation but the next, one must begin the bullying behaviors early.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
they did the same with Hilary. Not that she didn't have plenty of good reasons to hate her, but the good reasons were things like "she'll sell us out to mega corporations" and "She supports TPP and outsourcing".
You're not allowed to talk about those kind of things; they're profitable business. So you're stuck with trying to instill a general sense of dread.
With AOC it's harder because she doesn't really have any dirt. She's a pretty girl, meaning they probably can find anyone she sexually harassed. She's from a basic, middle class family so they won't find corruption. And so far she knows better than to apologize for anything (Liz Warren shoulda told everybody, including the Cherokees, to go fuck themselves on the Indian thing. Apologizing is never good in politics, Trump taught us that).
Speaking of Trump, AOC has the potential to be the left wing Trump: Somebody who nothing sticks to and who can bypass traditional media and go directly to the voters. With the main difference being that when she says Drain the Swamp see seems to mean it. If you're a billionaire who doesn't like paying taxes you'll spend some time trying to bury her before that happens.
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Her influence is pulling the Democratic Party out of the Overton Window [wikipedia.org],
Oh no! The Democrats will be skewed from center-right to slightly more centerish, whatever will they do!
and toward electoral suicide. She may be leading the Democratic Party off a cliff.
Not really, considering the only people who don't like her proposals are Boomers, and nobody cares what they think anymore. Go share some more red scare Minions memes, grandpa.
ok, they are idiots in the first place to throw boiling water next to people. let alone 3 year olds. but what does the trick need to work? i can imagine it must be quite a difference to throw it at -30C vs -1C. how was it in these cases? the linked article does not say much..
Out of 8 billion people on the planet, there will always be stupid people doing stupid things and accidentally hurting themselves. Are we going to try and outlaw this experiment because of 8 people?
The trouble with taking her seriously is that she keeps saying stupid shit.
So did Trump. The Democrats thought they could win just by pointing out his mistakes, while ignoring the concerns of his supporters. They were wrong.
AOC said that being morally correct was more important than being factually correct. A poll of people in her district showed a majority agreed with that statement.
Facts no longer matter in American politics, on either the left or right.
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.
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so it's possible she won't. I'm not sure I could blame her if she did sell out, but assuming she doesn't she's going to be untouchable. Assuming they don't redraw her district, but that'll be hard to do. Gerrymandering means making a few safe districts for Dems so you can make more safe districts for the GOP.
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I was up in the White Mountains, in a hiking lodge, state park, national park, I don't recall.
They have a roll--a memorial--of people who have died hiking in the area, going back to around 1900.
The plaque explains that hiking isn't extremely dangerous, but you are in the wilderness, you are on a mountain, and things can happen, and we should all be mindful of this.
Some of the deaths are mishaps; some are bad weather, some are just people who happened to have a heart attack while they were on the mountain. But about once every 10 years, someone dies sledding down Mt. Washington on a cafeteria tray. (I am not making this up.)
My guess is that when someone dies this way, word gets around, and then no one tries it for a while. But after a decade has passed, there is a new generation who came along too late to get the memo, and one of them does try it, and then there is a new name on the memorial.
-- Gary Lawson, The Far Side
he makes fewer gaffs due to experience so he seems more thoughtful. That is. Nothing more, nothing less.
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The real stupidity is throwing the water straight up, or throwing it against the wind.
I wonder if these people also are prone to pissing upwind. Darwin has a special place in evolution for people who piss or throw boiling water upwind.
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This is not exactly a Darwin Awards moment. They're tossing a bit of water into the air, not juggling chainsaws. Most people can manage it without getting water on themselves or others. It's also a cool demonstration.
A small number of people managed to injure themselves or others doing this. They're probably the same people who managed as children to hurt themselves with a Nerf toy. From the sound of it, only one or two of the injuries actually required care beyond home first aid. I do feel for the 3 year old who clearly wasn't old enough to watch out for himself, of course.
In related news, Ocasio-Cortez announced new legislation which would outlaw the possession, sale, or use of any such military style, tactical assault liquid.
C'mon folks. Troll yes, but this is hellafunny nonetheless!
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Damn. I've been expecting this kind of thing. One thing experience shows is that once a political strategy or tactic is found to be successful, it *will* be used by the opposition.
Rule by Emotion vs. Rule by Logic. I have a gut feeling that somewhere in the middle is the proper mix.
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