Posted on 07/30/2014 8:55:17 AM PDT by Enterprise
If pouring rubbing alcohol on your chest and lighting it on fire sounds like a bad idea, you're on the right track. A 15-year-old boy in Kentucky had to learn the hard way, however, after he attempted a stunt called the "fire challenge" that's been popping up on sites like Facebook and YouTube. "I just poured alcohol on it, and lit it, and it just automatically went and burst," the teenager, who suffered second-degree burns, tells WKYT-TV.
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"Unbearable," the teen says. "Literally after it got put out it was already blistering."
(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...
I promise not to release the pix I have of FReepers lighting off bottle rockets from the cleft of their buttocks. Including my own. If I were ever stupid enough to try it, which of course I’m not. And if you see any internet vids to the contrary, they’re fakes. Mom.
Who knew? Undoubtably we need more warning labels on lighter fluid. I always wonder who some of these warnings are for. Now I know. They're for people too stupid to live in any society that has evolved beyond the invention of fire.
That is one hilarious photoshop, in a sick way! Only us old farts would recognize it.
I jumped off our house roof with an umbrella......wrecked the umbrella.
Look for the "Word Crimes" video by Wierd Al on Youtube.
It's worth three minutes of your time. I literally (not figuratively) Laughed out Loud.
Why am I hearing strains of “Dueling Banjoes” in the background as I read this article...?
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Dan Quayle School of Spelling??
Sorry, banjo player here who couldn’t resist.
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I hope you didn’t get injured! YIKES!
Well done.
It doesn’t appear that some people have read a dictionary in quite some time. The usage of literally that he uses is correct. Another definition of literally now includes it’s use as ‘virtually’.
In any event, kid does dumb thing. Kids have always done dumb things. When I was younger, most of my peers were lighting dead plant matter on fire and inhaling it, and continue to do so despite it leading to cancer and death.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.....LOL!
Dan Quayle School of Spelling??
At any one time, there's only ONE grammar cop on dudy around here....
So which one of you is the phony?
My only mistake was volunteering to go first........
I’m the phony.
Everybody knows we banjo players are illiterate.
Sooooo, what do you call a banjo player in a 3 piece suit?
The Defendant.
I jumped off our house roof with an umbrella......wrecked the umbrella.
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So you’re the one Guy Clark is singing about in his song The Cape.
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