The Burn Challenge is back this time burns 40% of 12 year olds body

A 12-year-old Queens boy will be spending Memorial Day Weekend in the hospital as he continues to recover from third degree burns he acquired while attempting a Youtube stunt on Tuesday (May 24).  The unidentified patient had been rushed to Nassau University Medical Center's Burn Unit after setting himself on fire in what a friend of the victim said was "fun" but one professional psychologist has called a "cry for help."

"To have it filmed on YouTube so that people can watch this is a cry out for help. Everything is about this kind of media hype of attention and everybody wants you to know them, even if it could potentially cost them their lives," said Dr. Harry Stratyner.

 

Emergency medical technicians received a call from a home on Watjean Court in Far Rockaway at around 8:30 om Tuesday.  When they arrived they found the boy suffering in agonizing in pain, with the skin reportedly coming off of his chest.  According to the boy's babysitter, who had called 911, he had run out of the bathroom in a ball of flames.  The boy, who was filming himself as a participant of the two year old "fire challenge", was supposed to extinguish himself in the shower but panicked in the midst of his pain.  

 

Thousands of young people have come upon and executed the "fire challenge".  It basically requires that one douse themselves in rubbing alcohol and set themselves ablaze in a bathtub.  A friend of the victim admitted to ABC-7 news that he had done it several times.  "I put it like around here, I grab the lighter, and the next thing my whole body burst in flames," he said, calling the stunt "fun".  

 

The victim initially told police he had been scorched by an oven.  He is reported to have suffered burns on 40% of his body.  Police said the injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. 

Source: hiphopwired.com