TikTok challenge leaves teen disfigured with nearly 80% of body burned

[Uncle Baby Billy]

TikTok challenge leaves teen disfigured with nearly 80% of body burned

A TikTok challenge that went horribly wrong left a 16-year-old North Carolina boy severely disfigured, with burns covering nearly 80% of his body.

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A TikTok challenge that went horribly wrong left a 16-year-old North Carolina boy severely disfigured, with burns covering nearly 80% of his body.

Mason Dark and his friends were creating a makeshift torch with a spray paint can and a lighter, which triggered an explosion that consumed the teens in flames.

“He’s unrecognizable. Unrecognizable,” his mother, Holli Dark, told WRAL.

The teens from Wake Forest, a town roughly 17 miles northeast of Raleigh, were participating in a dangerous TikTok challenge where social media users use flammable aerosols to create miniature flamethrowers.

Instead of fanning the flame out, the can exploded.

“They all heard a big boom. And then Mason came running out and started taking off his shirt,” Dark said.

Mason hopped into a nearby river to soothe the burns, but emerged with charred skin.

Both moves ended up worsening his condition: The teenager suffered a T-shaped third-degree burn on his back from ripping off the flaming shift, and is at high risk of infection from the river water.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

needing tik tok to discover hair spray and a lighter

 

[Unknown Poster]

 

[Silver Surfer]

 

[OneManGang]

Massive L.

The devil does find work for idle hands. If them had been reading book, he wouldn’t be here.

 

[⠀⠀⠀]

That was his white side that caused all of this

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

Mason Dark & Burnt

It writes itself brehs

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Don’t stop filming now. You famous. That’s what you wanted, right?

That’s why you have to be careful who you wishing to. Sometimes it’s the devil who ends up granting them.

 

[King Poetic]

Jerry Springer was my era where I saw all the dumbasses

Now in 2023 TikTok has become the springer for generation z

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Kids are being raised by social media.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

needing tik tok to discover hair spray and a lighter

Beat me to it lol we used to do that shyt all the time.

Legit surprised I never set nothing on fire my damn self

 

[JNew]

yall being a little harsh on the kid. we all did stupid stuff as a kid. it really just sounds like a freak accident.

would he have done it without tik tok, probably not. but spraying a can at a lighter usually wouldnt do this.

 

[KBtheKey]

Wow i started fukkin with axe and lighters in elementary. I still sometimes will turn a found clear lighter with fluid into a flamethrower lol

Spray paint is kinda hefty tho. So heavy that they probably should've known better

 

[MikelArteta]

yall being a little harsh on the kid. we all did stupid stuff as a kid. it really just sounds like a freak accident.

would he have done it without tik tok, probably not. but spraying a can at a lighter usually wouldnt do this.

yeah I mean as a kid watching wrestling I was doing stunners and pedigrees and chokeslams on my friends. Thankfully none of us really got hurt that bad

 

[skyrunner1]

Wow i started fukkin with axe and lighters in elementary. I still sometimes will turn a found clear lighter with fluid into a flamethrower lol

Spray paint is kinda hefty tho. So heavy that they probably should've known better

We used to do that shyt all the time as a jit.. Prayers to the kid and his recovery