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

Darwin Challenge:

[Anonymous Coward]

Burn your bits and pieces off for an internet meme.

Hydrochloric acid challenge next?

[Ecuador]

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...
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... :D

Re:Hydrochloric acid challenge next?

[ShanghaiBill]

So by this logic, you're going to stop going to the doctor and taking medicine when you are sick? If you break a leg or get blinded in an accident someone should just dump you in a remote area to go and die?

Nonsense, nobody is saying that we should kill or mistreat stupid people. We are just saying that they should be sterilized.

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.

"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".

Headline

[Kohath]

Global Warming Causes Severe Burns

Subhead: Winter Temperatures Too Warm for Viral Boiling Water Challenge

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.

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.