'Fire challenge' leaves Michigan girl, 12, with severe burns over half her body

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Nicole Darrah | Fox News




A 12-year-old girl from Detroit, Michigan was hospitalized Friday with severe burns after participating in what her mother called the "fire challenge."

Timiyah Landers was hanging out with two friends at her house when she became "engulfed in flames" after apparently mimicking a video she saw on YouTube, her mother, Brandi Owens, told Fox 2.

Owens heard a small explosion and witnessed her daughter "running up [a] hallway on fire from her knees to her hair."

Owens' quick-thinking fiancé directed Timiyah to the bathtub and sprayed her with water. The 12-year-old was then rushed to the hospital, where the family learned more than 49 percent of her body was burned.

The girl's friends said they were participating in the "fire challenge," an internet trend in which people seemingly douse themselves in rubbing alcohol and set themselves on fire. One of the girls said she viewed videos of people taking part in the challenge online.

Timiyah, who was reportedly supposed to start seventh grade in the upcoming weeks, will remain hospitalized for several months. She'll need to have "at least 3 more surgeries" over the course of her long recovery, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the girl.

Owens told Fox 2 parents need to watch their children to make sure they're not partaking in such stunts.

"These kids are trying these YouTube challenges," Owens told Fox 2. "Monitor these kids, especially with these phones and if I could after with this happening, my kids would never be able to be on social media — no more iPhones, nothing."

Last month, a 15-year-old teen suffered second-degree burns to his face and body after his friends allegedly poured boiling hot water on him as he slept in a bid to complete the “Hot Water Challenge," an internet challenge they also learned about on YouTube.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[Goofy]

Over here we call that the "retard challenge"

[RBP]

We need a war on our soil. Too soft, too bored.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You know, when I see stories like this anymore, my first thought isn't even sympathy for the kid and family (which that used to be my first feelings on 'tragic' stories), my first thought is like the Forrest Gump quote, stupid is as stupid does. This girl is 12 years old, she knows about fire and what fire does yet she STILL chooses to light herself on fire because of something she saw on YouTube. I can't feel any sympathy for that kinda stupidity.

We grew up watching Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner/Coyote cartoons and we knew those were fake. We weren't running over cliffs thinking we would hang there in the air or dropping anvils or rocks on people's heads. We weren't emulating the Three Stooges and running a hand saw across someone's head and expecting the teeth to be all fucked up like they showed on the show. We knew that stuff wasn't real.

I don't know if it's the parents today or that kids are just getting more stupid and more ignorant, but damn, it makes me weep for the future of this planet.


/rant

[Goofy]

We grew up watching Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner/Coyote cartoons and we knew those were fake.

You take that back!!!!