Sadly tens dont think things through. They only seen the fun in what they are doing and not the way things could go wrong.

So lucky he’s alive !
This was a tough lesson to learn, hope many other learnt from this !!

How sad. But kids have been doing silly and risky things since long before the Internet. Hope he recovers well.

The sheer idiocy of people never ceases to amaze me….

Kids! what can you do with them! How they turn from sweet lovely kids into dumb teens I’ll never understand. The internet as a lot to answer for. I would never have thought of the stupid things that teens get up to these days.

i have not heard of this challenge, but I really hope it has stopped.

This does sound like a bit of a freak accident – partly due to the location of the challenge. Sympathy to his family.

It’s tragically frightening that such an accident had to happen before people are warned of the dangers of these challenges. He’s very lucky to be alive, and I hope he recovers well and his family are okay.

Why do people get involved in such silly things. I wish him well.

this bloody internet is amazing in some ways, but HECK it causes some issues

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  • • mom94125 replied
    • 01 Feb 2016 , 11:00 pm

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  yeah the silliest things go viral!

our youth are doing such stupid dangerous things these days, its a shame, this boy is lucky to still be alive.

Just how stupid are these people??? Seriously – duct tape???

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  • • june11 replied
    • 30 Jan 2016 , 7:36 pm

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  Duct Tape is fairly easy to stretch initially but once it is stuck firm it can be very hard to remove. Accidents could very easily happen while struggling to loosen and remove it.

Oh my goodness. He is very lucky to be alive. I hope this story and pictures go viral to stop any other teenagers attempting the same thing

Oh dear ..do hope this tragic outcome is a warning to others .
Pray the young lad recovers well.

yeah that went very badly for him. lucky he is alive though.

Any internet challenge scares me terribly. Because, children/teens/young adults are immature enough to try them and share them virally. Without considering the consequences. Every time I see one of these I take the opportunity to speak to my son about stupidity.

How stupid to accept these challenges – do children these days think that they are that invincible? Not too many kids in my day tried to fly like Superman from reading comics, but once they play these games it seems like they feel it is real, so try it out.

This is horrendous!!! How can teenagers think of accepting such a challenge? 🙁

These internet stunts are absolutely stupid and even if someone gets seriously hurt people still do them! A family friend was killed preforming a stunt that makes you pass out. I remember the heart break it caused and the trauma it caused the family to watch the recording he had made of him doing it, literally filmed his death. I hope this poor guy recovers quickly and that more and more kids realise just how dangerous these challenges are.

Its all too easy for teenagers to be unrealistic or oblivious about dangers. So good of this family to share in an effort to save others. So sad to see the damage to this boys life.