Mom warns parents after dangerous viral challenge gives son third-degree burns Kennedy News & MediaA distraught mother is warning parents after her teenage son was left with third and second-degree burns after trying a dangerous social media challenge. Alabama mom Tiffany Crutcher says she\u2019d placed a series of candles around her home in preparation for a storm that threatened to take out her electricity when the worst happened. According to Crutcher, her 13-year-old son, Dzhyan, took the opportunity to try out a dangerous social media challenge that involved throwing alcohol over an open flame. \u201cHe went into the bathroom and he took a candle and poured alcohol onto it,\u201d she reportedly said in a statement to Kennedy News & Media, as per the NYP. \u201cIt exploded onto him, catching him on fire. I was there immediately. I heard the explosion.\u201d Teenager receives third-degree burns trying social media challenge Crutcher says her son received third and second-degree burns on his face, neck, chest, and stomach. \u201cI tried to put him out with my hands at first,\u201d she added. \u201cWe were taught to stop, drop and roll, so I tried that, and it didn\u2019t work\u2026 He was completely on fire from the waist up. It was terrifying.\u201d Luckily, the flames were finally put out when Crutcher\u2019s youngest son handed his mom a fire extinguisher\u2026 but by then, the damage was already done. Crutcher\u2019s son isn\u2019t the only child who\u2019s been badly burned after attempting a social media \u2018challenge.\u2019 As reported by ABC 7 Chicago, mother Holli Dark\u2019s son, Mason Dark, was severely burned after setting fire to a can of spray paint. This is far from the first time an online challenge has resulted in serious injuries. In fact, some of these viral challenges have even caused the death of several children, as in the case of the \u2018Blackout Challenge\u2019 that sparked outrage last year after several kids passed away after trying to hold their breath until they passed out. As a result, several parents banded together to sue TikTok, arguing that the platform\u2019s \u201cproduct and its algorithm directed exceedingly and unacceptably dangerous challenges and videos.\u201d For more social media news and coverage check out our page here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mom warns parents after dangerous viral challenge gives son third-degree burns Kennedy News & MediaA distraught mother is warning parents after her teenage son was left with third and second-degree burns after trying a dangerous social media challenge. Alabama mom Tiffany Crutcher says she\u2019d placed a series of candles around her home in preparation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}