DEL CITY, Oklahoma -- Oklahoma teens are taking part in a disturbing trend… they are setting themselves and their friends on fire. Dozens of YouTube videos document the fad. Teens are spraying their skin with highly flammable body spray, then lighting it on fire. Some use the spray to make fireballs and throw it at each other. A source tells News 9, a Shawnee 8th grader tried the trick with disastrous results. The girl received third degree burns and has been out of school for several weeks. Teachers and school counselors are aware kids are trying this at home. This trend is not just happening in Shawnee. A group of teens in Del City, say they have tried it before. Nat Palmer did it out of curiosity, " What can you say, we're just kids." "Unfortunately, most teenagers think they are bulletproof," said Dr. Herbert Meites, of the Integris Paul Silverstein Burn Center.
Uh, no Dr. Meites, they don't think they're bullet proof, they think they're fire retardant. Try and keep up. And for that matter, it kind of sounds like they are. I mean no one has died a horrible death yet, right? Sure there's that one girl who's never going to looks the same, but other than that no issues, right?
It's not like they're chugging 4Loko and dying or anything, it's just fire, everyone relax. People have been playing with fire for eons and eons, ever since Cave-teenagers figured out that rubbing two sticks together and then flinging the resulting flames at each other was a wicked fun time (end result, Laser Tag, thank you cave teenagers, thank you.).
