8-year-old hospitalized after YouTube stunt goes wrong
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[QUOTE]A New Hampshire 8-year-old who copied a YouTube stunt suffered burns on his body when the trick went wrong.
Tashia Ditucci's son, James, suffered second-degree burns on 15 percent of his body after a sleepover with his 10-year-old brother and cousin. during the sleepover, they saw a video on YouTube of people covering their hands in sanitizer and lighting their hands on fire. The sanitizer ended up on James' shirt and the flames spread.
"They don't ever get to see the after effects of what might happen it it should go wrong," Tashia Ditucci said. "Now, my son is an example of what could happen if it does go wrong."[/QUOTE]
[url]http://abc6onyourside.com/news/offbeat/8-year-old-hospitalized-after-youtube-stunt-goes-wrong[/url]
I mean I know the kid's only 8 and impressionable but you should really know not to mess with fire.
Sucks anyway.
I don't really think this is any more valid than when people were outraged back in the day because Beavis and Butthead 'caused' kids to light their house on fire because Beavis would go "FIRE, FIRE"
This, unfortunately, is just dumb kids doing dumb kid stuff they see on TV or YouTube. Can't really hold anyone responsible for it. If it was a sleepover, undoubtedly the kids probably snuck a lighter and hand sanitizer while parents were asleep.
Hopefully he gets well soon. No doubt he learned a lesson.
The fact that this even rates a news article these days is hilarious. Growing up in the 90's my friends and I would do this sort of thing, and when we'd get burned my folks would whack me over the head and say that's whatcha get. Hell I caught my whole head on fire once, and that was the response I got after the fire was out.
This article reads like it's YouTube's fault. You don't need YouTube to be a dumb kid with a lighter.
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;51707639]The fact that this even rates a news article these days is hilarious. Growing up in the 90's my friends and I would do this sort of thing, and when we'd get burned my folks would whack me over the head and say that's whatcha get. Hell I caught my whole head on fire once, and that was the response I got after the fire was out.
This article reads like it's YouTube's fault. You don't need YouTube to be a dumb kid with a lighter.[/QUOTE]
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Stupid people do stupid things. Just like people putting iPhones in microwaves because someone said it charges it, almost burning their house down in the process.
Hopefully no feels before reals moron tries to make a kneejerk law out of this.
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Trying to guilt trip him isn't going to work when the kid undeniably did something incredibly dumb.
You don't have to be an adult to know playing with fire isn't smart.
[QUOTE=Araknid;51707694]Trying to guilt trip him isn't going to work when the kid undeniably did something incredibly dumb.
You don't have to be an adult to know playing with fire isn't smart.[/QUOTE]
not trying to guilt trip him just showing something that plenty of people would think is news worthy
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;51707639]The fact that this even rates a news article these days is hilarious. Growing up in the 90's my friends and I would do this sort of thing, and when we'd get burned my folks would whack me over the head and say that's whatcha get. Hell I caught my whole head on fire once, and that was the response I got after the fire was out.
This article reads like it's YouTube's fault. You don't need YouTube to be a dumb kid with a lighter.[/QUOTE]
This isn't the minor accident you're making it out to be. He suffered burns to 15% of his body. That's serious enough to be life-threatening to an adult, not to mention a child. The focus on YouTube is because it is a platform that reaches billions on a daily basis, of course it's relevant to mention why he did it in the first place.
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;51707639]This article reads like it's YouTube's fault. You don't need YouTube to be a dumb kid with a lighter.[/QUOTE]
Can confirm, I was dicking around with a lighter a [I]lot[/I] back when I was younger.
The only reason I stopped was because my dad came out one day and pointed out that I was setting shit on fire like 4 feet from a can of gas in a wooden shed and I went "huh, so I am"
a kid in my class in highschool took a spray can of axe and sprayed it all over his hand and lit it on fire when the teacher walked out. this was done during class. Imagine all the shit the teacher would get if an accident similar to the op happened. The teacher was only out for like 30 seconds
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;51707744]not trying to guilt trip him just showing something that plenty of people would think is news worthy[/QUOTE]
That doesn't exactly say that (or even remotely). You posted a picture. Not only are your intentions vague, but you don't even press a point forward by just posting a picture. If you want to make a point, state it, don't just post a picture that could be interpreted in a thousand different ways, most of which seem like some stupid attempt at some 'zingy comeback.'
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;51708349]That doesn't exactly say that (or even remotely). You posted a picture. Not only are your intentions vague, but you don't even press a point forward by just posting a picture. If you want to make a point, state it, don't just post a picture that could be interpreted in a thousand different ways, most of which seem like some stupid attempt at some 'zingy comeback.'[/QUOTE]
yeah i should've explained it then. but i'm explaining it now. i don't think it's hilarious that it got on the news because it definitely looks news-worthy, even if it isn't
Youtube should have an option in the back-end where you can put that "Please don't do this at home" message at the start of a video.
At least he got to be brighter than his peers for a brief moment ;___;
On a sidenote: Hand-sanitizer is pretty handy to have in your backpack if you need an emergency firestarter.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;51707805]This isn't the minor accident you're making it out to be. He suffered burns to 15% of his body. That's serious enough to be life-threatening to an adult, not to mention a child. The focus on YouTube is because it is a platform that reaches billions on a daily basis, of course it's relevant to mention why he did it in the first place.[/QUOTE]
it's just 2nd degree burns
[QUOTE=Zang-Pog;51708689]That might be true, but he is still eight years old.
Hopefully this will make lots of people think twice about you know, leaving their kids unsupervised[/QUOTE]
It was a sleepover though. Parents don't typically stay up all night to keep an eagle-eye on their kids when they go to sleepovers. That's the only reason why I don't really blame them.
Why did an 8 year old have access to a lighter in the first place? The parents kinda are to blame.
I don't think they specify what they used. Could've been a lighter or some matches. A lot of people have barbecue lighters in their kitchen up in a drawer somewhere. Some pretty benign stuff.
Parents are responsible for a large part of what their kids have access to, but most parents don't really consider the possibility that their kid is gonna try to set themselves on fire unless they've shown some kind of predisposition to arson or something.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;51707805]This isn't the minor accident you're making it out to be. He suffered burns to 15% of his body. That's serious enough to be life-threatening to an adult, not to mention a child. The focus on YouTube is because it is a platform that reaches billions on a daily basis, of course it's relevant to mention why he did it in the first place.[/QUOTE]
While 15% burns do fall under the moderate classification it's more about the morbidity when you're talking about a burns patient, even when we're talking a larger percentile of surface area being affected. You only really see an exponential climb up after you leave the 10-20% TSA, with significant increases in morbidity and mortality as early as 30%. In a country like the USA you'll see almost no mortality with minor and even somewhat moderate wounds if the appropriate care was quickly given.
The important morbidities tend to be, in any burn, pain, hypothermia, anaemia, and infections, when we're talking about a minimal surface area, with serious complications such as cellulitis, pneumonia, rhabdomyolysis (destruction of the skeletal muscle), compartment syndrome, and so forth that you'll only largely see in a patient with grade II-IV burns over a surface area of at least 30%, though isolated instances of this can occur in a deep burn to a smaller area depending on the location.
For the record, I believe the mean mortality rate is about 3% at this level, hardly much to be concerned about because most deaths are due in this case to inhalational poisoning, burns to the airway, and shock if the patient was unable to withstand the injury.
People do stupid shit every day, what makes this any different?
[QUOTE=Segab;51708793]Why did an 8 year old have access to a lighter in the first place? The parents kinda are to blame.[/QUOTE]
Don't act like you didn't know exactly where your parents kept the knives, lighters, hunting equipment, firearms, and liquor when you were 8. Deceiving your parents and sneaking away with stuff you aren't supposed to have was a childhood art form for me.
[QUOTE=Pascall;51708786]It was a sleepover though. Parents don't typically stay up all night to keep an eagle-eye on their kids when they go to sleepovers. That's the only reason why I don't really blame them.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, from what I remember as a child, especially when they're THAT young, that's the time you SHOULD be keeping an eye on them, because when you get a bunch of young (and stupid) kids together like that, you know what happens?
[I]Brainstorming[/I].
[QUOTE=shad0w440;51709264]Don't act like you didn't know exactly where your parents kept the knives, lighters, hunting equipment, firearms, and liquor when you were 8. Deceiving your parents and sneaking away with stuff you aren't supposed to have was a childhood art form for me.[/QUOTE]
I didn't know where we stored the hunting equipment and firearms because we didn't have any.
Quip aside, I knew where stuff was because my parents didn't try to hide shit from me, but they were really good at telling me what was dangerous and why it was dangerous.
Helps that I knew a bunch of kids whose parents were a lot more secretive with these things and those kids always ended up hurting themselves or getting the shit beaten out of them because they accidentally lit shit on fire or ended up breaking expensive shit.
[QUOTE=shad0w440;51709264]Don't act like you didn't know exactly where your parents kept the knives, lighters, hunting equipment, firearms, and liquor when you were 8. Deceiving your parents and sneaking away with stuff you aren't supposed to have was a childhood art form for me.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about other people's parents, but mine kept shit like that well out of reach or behind a lock, so just knowing where they are didn't help.
It worked, too - not once did I engulf myself in fire.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;51709462]I didn't know where we stored the hunting equipment and firearms because we didn't have any.
Quip aside, I knew where stuff was because my parents didn't try to hide shit from me, but they were really good at telling me what was dangerous and why it was dangerous.
Helps that I knew a bunch of kids whose parents were a lot more secretive with these things and those kids always ended up hurting themselves or getting the shit beaten out of them because they accidentally lit shit on fire or ended up breaking expensive shit.[/QUOTE]
It's not to say my folks didn't tell me that I could hurt myself or that those sorts of things were dangerous, they treated it the same as your folks, as a kid I just didn't care. All that did for me was let me know to mess with it when they weren't around. Not all kids are perfect little angels who listen to their parents, me included. I've got the scars to prove it, and I learned the hard way.
8 year old learns that fire is hot
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