Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the trying-this-at-home dept.

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.

3 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. Hydrochloric acid challenge next? by Ecuador · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

    --
    Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
    1. Re:Hydrochloric acid challenge next? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  2. Re:"Call it evolution in action" by Aighearach · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The child survived.

    There was no selection event.

    No evolution happened.

    My goodness, educational standards have sure fallen.