We often refer back to our teenage years as a time when we were “dumb and young,” but even then, we knew when to draw the line. It seems as if some teenagers in this day and age are taking stupid to a whole new level and endangering their lives in the process. Underage drinking, smoking cigarettes, getting high and cutting class are all still common when it comes to teenage mischief, but none of those things hold a candle to what you’re about to read.
#1 Oral Roulette
It's a game featuring one male and as many females as you can find. Each girl takes a turn sucking the guy's dick for a short period of time, usually just as long as she can, and then stops, while all the other girls try to stimulate the male causing him to ejaculate into her mouth, thus making her the loser.
It's also known as French Roulette.
#2 Sack Tapping
Sack tapping doesn't sound too ominous, does it? The innocence ends there, however, for the object of this game is for boys to withstand being flicked, hit or punched in the groin as a testament to their strength. While typical of the teenage boy mentality, no thought was given to adverse effects. When one 14-year-old boy ended up having to endure a testicle amputation, the insidious nature of the game soon emerged in the media.
On May 28, 2010, 14-year-old David Gibbons from Cosby, Minnesota, who had been the victim of the new fad known as sack tapping, ended up in the ER in the early hours of the morning. Having endured a punch to the groin from a fellow student at school, the teenager was awakened several hours later by excruciating pain.
Things did not end well for David, who ended up having one of his testicles amputated. Unfortunately, sack tapping has become the new "fad" in schools nationwide and is even making the rounds at YouTube.com, where "sack tap circles" host actual competitions.
#3 Blood Sucking, Vampire Style
Parents beware, because the hickey or love bite is taking on a whole new meaning. The influx of vampire movies and TV series appears to have presented teenagers with a new idea for a fad. U.S. teens are getting their fix by biting one another hard enough to draw blood in order to drink it. Perhaps they don't know that a human mouth has a total of 101 known types of bacteria, worse than any cat or dog. As if this isn't bad enough, can anyone say hepatitis or HIV? Doctors say that, typically, 10 to 15 percent of human bite wounds become infected.
#4 Google Earth Pool Crashing
The latest craze for teenagers with no place to go except Facebook is "dipping," or gatecrashing someone else's swimming pool. Putative trespassers select their swimming pool by using Google Earth, and then notify their mates using social networking sites. The would-be revelers often turn up in fancy dress and are advised to bring a bike (for a swift getaway). Owners only discover that their pool has been dipped when they find a bunch of beer cans floating on the surface the next morning.
#5 Salt & Ice Challenge
A new teen fad called "the salt and ice challenge" is drawing crowds on social networking sites and YouTube. However, like other teen "challenges," it has proven to be dangerous, and health care experts are telling parents to talk to their kids about the risks.
In Pittsburgh, a 12-year-old boy will spend the summer recovering as a result of having a large cross burned into his back by his twin brother and a pal as part of this newest challenge.
For the challenge, tweens and teens put salt on their skin and then press ice into it to see who can tolerate the pain the longest. The longer the ice is pressed into the salt, the more serious the injury. When ice is mixed with salt the temperature drops to -17, and exposing skin and bones to this temperature is really painful. If this is done for an extended period of time, it has the potential to badly burn the skin and rupture the bones.
#6 French Fries Parties
It's the new party craze that will make nutritionists despair. Teenagers are ordering dozens of cartons of McDonald's French Fries, spreading them in a giant pile across the table on trays, and then digging right in. Then, they take pictures of their "potato party" and post them on Facebook, Twitter and blogs to show the world that they aren't afraid of carbohydrates, fat, or salt.
It started in Japan when McDonald's ran a promotion advertising that all french fry sizes were £1. However, it has arrived in Korea and is spreading Westward.
#7 Car Surfing
As if "ghost riding the whip" wasn't dangerous enough, now teens are climbing on top of the car and riding it like a surfboard while their buddies are behind the wheel driving anywhere between 20 and 40 miles per hour! The Today Show recently reported on this dangerous (and illegal) new trend amongst teens and the repercussions that usually come with it. In addition to the "car surfer" being unrestrained, things can get tricky if the driver loses control or simply follows the turns of the road too quickly. The only outcome is a serious or potentially fatal accident. Keep your hands, feet and bodies INSIDE the vehicle at all times.
#8 Smoking Smarties
It's ironic that kids are smoking Smarties, because it may be one of the dumbest things that anyone could possibly do. There is no real reason why kids are doing this, but there are YouTube tutorials of kids "smoking" the candies by crushing them up, then inhaling and exhaling the dust. There isn't anything potentially dangerous about this besides the dust potentially clogging nasal passages but parents should still be concerned. If your kid is smoking candy, then you might need to show them some attention.
#9 Cinnamon Challenge
Are you tempted to take the "cinnamon challenge?" Beware! You can end up on a ventilator if you try to pull this one off.
For those who are wondering what the "cinnamon challenge" is, it's daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water, and then uploading the video on the Internet. The fad has become a rage among youngsters in recent years.
Thousands of videos on YouTube show people swallowing spoonfuls of cinnamon powder. Most of the videos show people coughing, choking, and scrambling for a bottle of water as their friends watch and laugh at their agony. One of the videos has more than 30 million views.
#10 Condom Snorting
Just when you think teenagers have gotten so bizarre that they can't come up with anything new to shock their parents, a new fad emerges called "condom snorting," where teens nasally ingest prophylactics and pull them out of their mouths.
Though videos surfaced online as early as October 2012, the challenge recently picked up speed with one YouTube user's post, where a girl completes the challenge while blasting Taylor Swift's "22" in the background -- probably not what the singer had in mind when she wrote the song.
#11 Butt Chugging
"Butt-Chugging" is the act of ingesting alcohol through one's rectum via a tube. Once in your rectum, the alcohol is absorbed through the mucus membrane. Apparently, college kids enjoy this method of drinking because it increases the speed with which alcohol enters the bloodstream, thereby quickening the intoxication process. The process is not only terribly disgusting, but it's also very dangerous, potentially causing extreme drunkenness as well as injuries to the rectum.
In 2012, a fraternity brother from Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Tennessee was sent to the emergency room with a blood alcohol level of more than .4 percent (p.s. that's five times the legal limit) following a butt-chugging session. At this level, most people lose consciousness and some die. A blood alcohol content of .45 percent or higher is often fatal. The male student was alright and back in class, but the fraternity was suspended for 30 days.
#12 Posting Racy Cell Phone Pics Online
A lot of kids think that their questionable photos are totally private because of their "settings", when indeed anything posted on the internet has the potential to dangerously spread like wildfire. Not only is it humiliating, but as we saw recently with two teenage girls from Indianapolis, racy photos posted online can lead to backlash at school and beyond. After someone passed along racy photos to school administrators, the girls were banned from sports and forced to apologize to the coaches' board. Others in similar situations have faced expulsion, the loss of scholarships and even child pornography charges. Think before you click.
#13 Vodka Eyeballing
Unfortunately this has nothing to do with scanning over the vodka selection at your favorite bar or liquor store. It's the term used to describe when partying teenagers tilt back their heads and literally have a shot of vodka poured into their eye! To me this sounds like more of a punishment than anything, but the payoff here is a quick buzz when the alcohol enters the bloodstream through the veins at the back of the eye. As crazy at it may sound, the stunt has made its way from wild Vegas nightclubs to university campuses and beyond. The potential setback? Long term damage, scarring and impaired vision. Keep the vodka out of your eyes.
#14 Drinking Hand Sanitizer
Teens have always looked for the cheapest high, and recently that cheap high has come in the form of hand sanitizer. Most formulas contain 62% ethyl alcohol, and the salt that seperates the alcohol from the sanitizer makes for a highly potent 120-proof shot. According to the Los Angeles Times after a few drinks of the hand cleaner a person may be intoxicated to a point where medical attention is needed. Officials say it's a small problem now, but could end up becoming more of a dangerous trend, like mouthwash or cough syrup to produce a buzz. Experts say to use the foam version over the gel because it's harder to extract the alcohol.
