• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

the "how dumb are you" challenge

rkorner

rkorner

sir crash-a-lot
Joined
Oct 11, 2011
Location
Indiana
Moto(s)
lots of em
Name
ryan
Just started seeing this going around, about kids lighting lighting themselve on fire for a youtube challenge. :wtf


It seems the point of the challenge is to spray a small amount of flammable liquid like alcohol or perfume on an area of the body and light it on fire for a few moments... Accidents seem to happen if too much liquid is spread or they are unable to extinguish the flame quickly enough
Click to expand...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/fire-challenge-video_n_5634043.html

Yeah you read that right.

What in dafuq is wrong with kids these days??? Cant believe im part of this generation of morons. (Im 22)

we've all done our fair share of stupid crap but come on
 
Yeah, used to do that in HS/College with alcoholic hand sanitizer. It would flame for a few seconds and then burn out. If you accidentally used too much you then made a mad sprint for the bathroom to plunge your hand into the toilet. That was pre-Youtube days... stupidity is a human condition, it's not something new that "kids these days" are getting into.
 
rkorner said:
Just started seeing this going around, about kids lighting lighting themselve on fire for a youtube challenge. :wtf




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/fire-challenge-video_n_5634043.html

Yeah you read that right.

What in dafuq is wrong with kids these days??? Cant believe im part of this generation of morons. (Im 22)

we've all done our fair share of stupid crap but come on
Click to expand...

I still to this day light myself on fire but its for performances. Nothing wrong with it if you are taught how to do it correctly and have a proper safety team with you. I have seen some stupid shit on youtube though. People lighting their hair on fire and god knows what else. The best one I saw was the kid next to a pool and when he got lit up he ran away from the pool. :rofl
 
sckego said:
Yeah, used to do that in HS/College with alcoholic hand sanitizer. It would flame for a few seconds and then burn out. If you accidentally used too much you then made a mad sprint for the bathroom to plunge your hand into the toilet. That was pre-Youtube days... stupidity is a human condition, it's not something new that "kids these days" are getting into.
Click to expand...

I used to do that as well. But i was never completely drenched in something that would sit and burn and not just fizzle out real quick

This is also just one of many idiotic challenges that are going around. (Not counting the ones that people are doing for "charity")
 
used to do it with bug spray when I was a littrle kid at camp. douse your hand liberally, light it up, and then into the river right quick

prob 30 kids did it a week lol

nothing to do with this gen except you can document it
 
This is nothing new - we used to use alcohol. The cool thing is (literally) is that the evaporation cools it so well you CAN do it and not get burned. YMMV with hairs/too much etc.

And not as stupid as my friend who though he could light stage-special FX flash powder... with a match... took the arm off his skin in about 0.0001 seconds.... :laughing
 
And just to put this in perspective, when I was oh, I dunno, 12 or 13, a friend decided to buy a 240v rectifier (UK main voltage), and a bucket of water, some wires, and a large garbage bag, oh, and some string soaked in gasoline?

Can you guess what he did, and what was the result? :)
 
we did that to whoever was zoned out the hardest playing video games:teeth lighter fluid and a lighter=WIN!!!
 
JFC I am glad we did not have access to the videos and interwebz when I was a teen. My family would have disowned me for shame.
 
The stupid part is posting it online for everyone to see it forever. Glad I was pre-interwebz in my youth!
 
I celebrated my 22nd birthday by setting my face on fire in a similar fashion. Wound up in the ICU for the night. My 23rd birthday went almost as poorly in that it involved a moving train and another trip to the ER. My 24th went better, but I still wound up in the ER with a separated shoulder the next day. If we had had video cameras and YouTube back then, I sincerely doubt I would have survived it.
 
Balloons. Filled with oxygen and acetylene (somebodies dad had a torch setup). Place about 5 or 8 of them in a large cardboard box. Make a fuse with a rag soaked in gasoline. Put it out in the middle of the local middle school at 2 am on a Saturday night. Light it, run. There was probably a 200 foot fireball, and all the car alarms within about 2 miles went off. You see, we didn't do the Myth busters thing of starting off small. We went whole hog, right from the start.

Monterey County Sheriffs. Marina Police. Fort Ord Military Police. Seaside Police. Monterey Police. Santa Cruz Bomb Squad. Scared the shit out of us, never did it again. Never got caught either.


Of course, not as exciting as those kids in Florida taking a leak and a dump in a jar, letting it ferment, then huffing it. Talk about halitosis.
 
corndog67 said:
Balloons. Filled with oxygen and acetylene (somebodies dad had a torch setup). Place about 5 or 8 of them in a large cardboard box. Make a fuse with a rag soaked in gasoline. Put it out in the middle of the local middle school at 2 am on a Saturday night. Light it, run. There was probably a 200 foot fireball, and all the car alarms within about 2 miles went off. You see, we didn't do the Myth busters thing of starting off small. We went whole hog, right from the start.
Click to expand...

We stole a fist size chunk of sodium from the science lab, wrapped it in an oily sock, and threw it in a pond... BOOM, for ten seconds it was daylight at midnight.

Same as you, we never got caught.
 
Beauregard said:
We stole a fist size chunk of sodium from the science lab, wrapped it in an oily sock, and threw it in a pond... BOOM, for ten seconds it was daylight at midnight.

Same as you, we never got caught.
Click to expand...

Cesium bro. Just be sure to huck it far.
 
I used to do it as a kid with lighter fluid. My brother and I used to light each other on fire and see who could wait the longest to put it out. :laughing

Joebar4000 said:
And just to put this in perspective, when I was oh, I dunno, 12 or 13, a friend decided to buy a 240v rectifier (UK main voltage), and a bucket of water, some wires, and a large garbage bag, oh, and some string soaked in gasoline?

Can you guess what he did, and what was the result? :)
Click to expand...

Sounds like a recipe for the Hindenburg.
 
big hefty bag full of Oxygen and Acetylene, light it and watch it glow over the night sky- until the bag melts....
 
Guess I wasn't dumb enough to set myself on fire. A friend decided to find out how long he could hold a lighter under his arm. Had a nasty wound for months afterward. :|
 
ThumperX said:
big hefty bag full of Oxygen and Acetylene, light it and watch it glow over the night sky- until the bag melts....
Click to expand...

2 Liter bottle filled and tossed into a campfire while no one is looking :devil
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top