Mother Arrested for Filming Son While He Set Himself on Fire

[c.d.]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722400/Mother-jailed-helping-son-set-alight-post-online-viral-fire-challenge-craze.html

Get these people out of the gene pool as quickly as possible.

c.d.

[Limehouse]

The Internet is a wonderful resource. It allows people to connect with others thousands of miles away and share views, ideas, research and so on. It really is an information superhighway. However, the downside is that it encourages foolhardiness of the extreme kind and this is an example.

Are the mother and son in this story intellectually compromised, do you think? If so, they deserve pity. If not, the mother is not worthy of the word.

[Harry D]

They should be made to sit down and explain their gross stupidity to REAL burn victims.

[Errata]

I think that people are not acquainted well enough with science that they honestly believe that a video of a stunt means it is not dangerous. I think she honestly thought that it was going to work, and the idea it was dangerous never entered her mind.