How hot is the tar, I wonder. I’ve always wondered exactly how injurious this procedure is. Is it just “degrading” and sticky? Or is it burning hot tar that does permanent damage?
From what I have found on the Internet, tar fully melts at about 200 degrees. I would suggest that putting something on the skin at 200 degrees would cause 3rd degree burns. 3rd degree burns are the worst. 3rd degree means that the burn has worked its way through all three layers of skin. Only good side … least painful, at first, because it has burned all nerves at the burn location. Secondary burns of the 1st and 2nd degree nature around the 3rd degree burn will be very painful.
It may not have been hot at all. I get 5-gallon buckets of cold-process roof coating at Lowe's.
Just hot enough to peel a layer off skin off here and there. This is real life stuff, doncha know.
Hopefully it was a life changing event for the perp. If not, he will probably face much tougher punishments in the future.