Some People are just stupid

[John From Detroit]

News reports the latest Tic=Toc trend

Student faces charges for dangerous TikTok challenge after incident forces NJ school to be evacuated

Taking part in this "challenge" can come with serious consequences. The 15-year-old has been charged with third degree arson and criminal mischief.

6abc.com

and

Dangerous TikTok trend has students forcing paper clips, pushpins into Chromebook devices

School and fire officials are warning parents of a dangerous TikTok trend where students force items like paper clips and pushpins into Chromebook devices to force an electrical short circuit.

www.wfsb.com

 

[workinonit]

In our house when I was that age, the dangerous part of that would have been what my daddy did to me if I was that stupid. They wouldn't have to worry about arresting me, I would have been in the hospital. Parents are spineless jellyfish these days.

 

[Boat Bum]

My mother always did the disciplining, I asked my father why when I was a little older and he simply said, because I'd kill ya.

 

[workinonit]

Yea, momma was the everyday butt cutter. Daddy was only involved in the high profile ass cuttings. I was lucky that I had a girl, and a very good one at that.

 

[Domo]

Once again - this comes down to parenting that was useless, coupled to social media which is clearly killing our society's ability to develop/think/survive.

This is not "stupidity" it is destructive criminal behavior. Where is Darwin when we need him?

 

[Isaac-1]

Teenagers have been doing such stupid stuff long before Tik-Tok, just now there is recorded evidence. When I was in high school a kid brought a gun to school and shot it out the back door of the boy's locker room to impress people. He was suspended for a week for doing it, and went on to be a local city cop, the last I heard he still was 30+ years later.

 

[old RV guy]

Discipline minus relationship = rebellion. If a kid at 15 is destroying property committing vandalism, that won't get fixed by starting now. These type behaviours don't happen in a vaccum, they're learned.
A 10 year old child of immigrant parents here committed suicide a few weeks back. Bullies at her school were taunting her daily that her parents were going to be deported , leaving her here all alone. Bullies don't just happen, they're home grown.

 

[LarsMac]

"Teenagers have been doing such stupid stuff long before Tik-Tok, just now there is recorded evidence. ..."

I was about four y/o when I learned that sticking stuff into Electric sockets was a really bad idea.

 

[Oldgator73]

The only reason this wasn’t done when we were that age is because there was no such thing as a Chromebook.

 

[Domo]

I was about four y/o when I learn that sticking stuff into Electric sockets was a really bad idea.

I'm guessing your parents might have helped "instill" that knowledge? Or did sparky bite you?

 

[old RV guy]

The only reason this wasn’t done when we were that age is because there was no such thing as a Chromebook.

The equivalent would have been setting fire to a textbook, we didn't do that then for the same reason we wouldn't have destroyed a school issued laptop.

 

[Oldgator73]

The equivalent would have been setting fire to a textbook, we didn't do that then for the same reason we wouldn't have destroyed a school issued laptop.

You say we. You got a mouse in your pocket. We had a guy throw an M80 in a toilet at school. Blew the toilet out of the ground. Kids have been tearing up school properties, properties in general from the beginning of time. Tell me you never sat at a school desk that had names carved in the wood. You’ve never used a school restroom that had names and less drawings on the walls and stall doors? Soap dispensers ripped off the walls. Humans destroy stuff just because they can.

 

[LarsMac]

I'm guessing your parents might have helped "instill" that knowledge? Or did sparky bite you?

Um, well, Yes. And, Um, Yes.

 

[Firstime RVer]

I was about four y/o when I learned that sticking stuff into Electric sockets was a really bad idea.

Funny I had the same experience!!

Experience really is an effective teacher, if you manage to survive those experiences..

Safe travels and all the best.

 

[workinonit]

The nostalgic references made me remember my cousin daring me to pee on the electric fence. Of course we never wore shoes on the farm in the summer. Instead I grabbed him and then grabbed the fence.

 

[Boat Bum]

Funny I had the same experience!!

Experience really is an effective teacher, if you manage to survive those experiences..

Safe travels and all the best.

Experience is a tough teacher, she gives you the test first and the lesson after.

 

[8Muddypaws]

I'm surprised that some evil mastermind hasn't made a Tic Toc challenge that involves making a batch of cyanide gas or ricen.

When I was a kid we had good clean fun! Stuff like shooting at each other with BB guns, launching bottle rockets at each other and harmless things like that.

 

[Excalibur1]

I was about four y/o when I learned that sticking stuff into Electric sockets was a really bad idea.

Ditto...bobby pin into socket at ten years old. Knocked me halfway across the kitchen. Dad just looked at me and said " won't do that again, willya?" Been fascinated with electricity and electronics ever since.

 

[Excalibur1]

Funny I had the same experience!!

Experience really is an effective teacher, if you manage to survive those experiences..

Safe travels and all the best.

" The only reason I am old and wise is that God protected me when I was young and stupid."

 

[Chef Duane]

Saw a guy blow up a beach ball full of some type of gas (acetylene maybe?) once. Lit it off in the park. Broke windows. We were behind a concrete block but still felt it like a bomb. Made the paper.