A 13-year-old girl has been in the hospital for over two weeks after suffering third-degree burns while apparently attempting to imitate a video she saw on social media, said her family, who are speaking out in case they can help prevent it from happening to someone else.
Destini Crane, of Portland, Oregon, severely burned her neck and right arm and has had to undergo three skin-grafting surgeries after her family believes she was trying to copy a video on the popular video app TikTok.
The incident happened on May 13 in their home's bathroom, her sister, Andrea Crane, told ABC News. Destini is currently unable to speak to tell them what happened. But based on what they found in the bathroom and after talking to her friends, they believe the seventh grader -- who "lived for TikToks," her mother said -- was trying to copy a TikTok video in which someone draws a shape using a flammable liquid on a mirror and then lights it on fire.
Destini brought into the bathroom a candle, lighter and bottle of rubbing alcohol, which they believe exploded in the poorly ventilated space, setting her and other items on fire, her sister said. When they retrieved Destini's phone, TikTok was still recording video, her mother, Kimberly Crane, told ABC News.
"Because of the burns she's going to have limited mobility," Andrea Crane said. "That is just going to be a lifelong thing, of her doing physical therapy to keep her mobility."
Amid reports of the so-called skull-breaker challenge last year, a prank that left some children with severe injuries, TikTok said in a post to its newsroom that "we do not allow content that encourages or replicates dangerous challenges that might lead to injury."
And this, people, is why thirteen year olds can't be trusted not to do daft stupid dangerous things because their frontal lobe isn't fully developed and they know jack shit about life at that age.
If I had a kid again I'd ban all use of social media and moronic things like Tik Tok until they were 18. They all see and hear and experience way too many adult things too soon in their lives. They need supervision on the internet, they really do.
-- Edited by Digger on Sunday 30th of May 2021 04:28:09 PM
Syl said
May 31 12:07 AM, 2021
The worst we had was checking our kids were not watching X rated films.
Maddog said
May 31 12:38 AM, 2021
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
Syl said
May 31 12:47 AM, 2021
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
John Doe said
May 31 2:01 AM, 2021
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
Foreign Hedge porn (with plenty of huge 'bushes') was an unbelievable horror when I was a child (worth fighting for between kids) and punishable by death (or sent to bed early for two nights after tea)!
The innocence of youth.
John Doe said
May 31 2:03 AM, 2021
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
What was the Bentz Patent-Motorwagen like to ride in?
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 02:08:09 AM
Digger said
May 31 12:08 PM, 2021
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
I never hitched on my own but did with others. In those days it seemed safer, or was it?
Syl said
May 31 12:10 PM, 2021
John Doe wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
What was the Bentz Patent-Motorwagen like to ride in?
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 02:08:09 AM
I have no idea....I go off colour and whether it has a roof or not.
Back in the day anything that had wheels and could get me to my destination (and the driver didn't look like Norman Bates) would have done.
Syl said
May 31 12:13 PM, 2021
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
I never hitched on my own but did with others. In those days it seemed safer, or was it?
I always tried to hitch with a mate...unfortunately me and my best friend at the time were always falling out, so I did a few trips on my own....I think I was lucky, I was always safe.
John Doe said
May 31 5:23 PM, 2021
Syl wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
What was the Bentz Patent-Motorwagen like to ride in?
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 02:08:09 AM
I have no idea....I go off colour and whether it has a roof or not.
Back in the day anything that had wheels and could get me to my destination (and the driver didn't look like Norman Bates) would have done.
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 05:24:36 PM
Maddog said
May 31 6:11 PM, 2021
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
I played with fire, literally. Lucky we never burned anything but a few fingers.
Did a lot of things in cars, mixed with alcohol at rates of speed that were insane.
Syl said
May 31 7:07 PM, 2021
John Doe wrote:
Syl wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
What was the Bentz Patent-Motorwagen like to ride in?
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 02:08:09 AM
I have no idea....I go off colour and whether it has a roof or not.
Back in the day anything that had wheels and could get me to my destination (and the driver didn't look like Norman Bates) would have done.
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 05:24:36 PM
Is that you and your dad? Thanks for sharing.
John Doe said
May 31 9:20 PM, 2021
Syl wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Syl wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
What was the Bentz Patent-Motorwagen like to ride in?
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 02:08:09 AM
I have no idea....I go off colour and whether it has a roof or not.
Back in the day anything that had wheels and could get me to my destination (and the driver didn't look like Norman Bates) would have done.
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 05:24:36 PM
Is that you and your dad? Thanks for sharing.
Syl said
Jun 1 11:42 PM, 2021
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
I played with fire, literally. Lucky we never burned anything but a few fingers.
Did a lot of things in cars, mixed with alcohol at rates of speed that were insane.
A drunken speeding arsonist.....you win.
Maddog said
Jun 2 4:26 AM, 2021
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
To be fair, I did some pretty stupid things without tik tok.
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
I played with fire, literally. Lucky we never burned anything but a few fingers.
Did a lot of things in cars, mixed with alcohol at rates of speed that were insane.
A drunken speeding arsonist.....you win.
I was a lunatic.
Did you know that the word for crazy in Norway is Texas.
Syl said
Jun 2 11:34 AM, 2021
I didn't know that... it's such a learning curve logging into here sometimes.
I think we all did stupid things when we were young, but drinking and driving is a big NO. But then I didn't learn to drive till I was more mature and I have always been aware of the damage you can do, not only to yourself, more importantly to others.
The main thing is, hopefully we all learn by our mistakes.
Maddog said
Jun 2 6:14 PM, 2021
Syl wrote:
I didn't know that... it's such a learning curve logging into here sometimes.
I think we all did stupid things when we were young, but drinking and driving is a big NO. But then I didn't learn to drive till I was more mature and I have always been aware of the damage you can do, not only to yourself, more importantly to others.
The main thing is, hopefully we all learn by our mistakes.
When I learned to drive, open containers of alcohol were legal in Texas. As long as you were 18, you could drive with a beer on the dashboard and take a sip in front of a cop. Doesn't mean they might not pull you over if they thought you were underage or drunk, but drinking and driving was legal and the "roadie" was pretty common. Even after the law changed, folks still continued the practice, but more discretly.
My kids are amazed that we used to buy beer, and drive around all night cruising while drinking it when we were in high school.
We also had crazy drink specials like 3 for 1 during certain times of the day or week. Or quarter beer night. Imagine a few hundred 18 -21 year olds, drinking beer at a bar for a quarter a piece, then staggering off to cars at 2 am.
My generation literally was the reason the drinking age was raised and DWI laws were changed. We were killing ourselves and everyone else around us.
Syl said
Jun 2 6:59 PM, 2021
I always thought you had to be 21 or older to buy booze in the US.
Here it's 18 in bars, clubs etc ...to purchase in a shop it's 20.
We have some daft 2 for 1 offers, usually in clubs. But I think the European holiday isles are the most irresponsible. Happy hours that go on all night, free drinks for females, to attract the men in, then they wonder why fights start.
I honestly don't know whether my generation, my sons generation, or now my grandsons generation drank the most.....I was a teen in the swinging 60's, and I think we take some beating.
John Doe said
Jun 2 7:14 PM, 2021
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I didn't know that... it's such a learning curve logging into here sometimes.
I think we all did stupid things when we were young, but drinking and driving is a big NO. But then I didn't learn to drive till I was more mature and I have always been aware of the damage you can do, not only to yourself, more importantly to others.
The main thing is, hopefully we all learn by our mistakes.
When I learned to drive, open containers of alcohol were legal in Texas. As long as you were 18, you could drive with a beer on the dashboard and take a sip in front of a cop. Doesn't mean they might not pull you over if they thought you were underage or drunk, but drinking and driving was legal and the "roadie" was pretty common. Even after the law changed, folks still continued the practice, but more discretly.
My kids are amazed that we used to buy beer, and drive around all night cruising while drinking it when we were in high school.
We also had crazy drink specials like 3 for 1 during certain times of the day or week. Or quarter beer night. Imagine a few hundred 18 -21 year olds, drinking beer at a bar for a quarter a piece, then staggering off to cars at 2 am.
My generation literally was the reason the drinking age was raised and DWI laws were changed. We were killing ourselves and everyone else around us.
Bloody hell MD!
There must have been a shitload of deaths with pissed up teens driving all over the place! :surprise:
Then again...
-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 2nd of June 2021 07:21:54 PM
A 13-year-old girl has been in the hospital for over two weeks after suffering third-degree burns while apparently attempting to imitate a video she saw on social media, said her family, who are speaking out in case they can help prevent it from happening to someone else.
Destini Crane, of Portland, Oregon, severely burned her neck and right arm and has had to undergo three skin-grafting surgeries after her family believes she was trying to copy a video on the popular video app TikTok.
The incident happened on May 13 in their home's bathroom, her sister, Andrea Crane, told ABC News. Destini is currently unable to speak to tell them what happened. But based on what they found in the bathroom and after talking to her friends, they believe the seventh grader -- who "lived for TikToks," her mother said -- was trying to copy a TikTok video in which someone draws a shape using a flammable liquid on a mirror and then lights it on fire.
Destini brought into the bathroom a candle, lighter and bottle of rubbing alcohol, which they believe exploded in the poorly ventilated space, setting her and other items on fire, her sister said. When they retrieved Destini's phone, TikTok was still recording video, her mother, Kimberly Crane, told ABC News.
"Because of the burns she's going to have limited mobility," Andrea Crane said. "That is just going to be a lifelong thing, of her doing physical therapy to keep her mobility."
Amid reports of the so-called skull-breaker challenge last year, a prank that left some children with severe injuries, TikTok said in a post to its newsroom that "we do not allow content that encourages or replicates dangerous challenges that might lead to injury."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/13-year-girl-severely-burned-imitating-tiktok-video/story?id=77980454
And this, people, is why thirteen year olds can't be trusted not to do daft stupid dangerous things because their frontal lobe isn't fully developed and they know jack shit about life at that age.
If I had a kid again I'd ban all use of social media and moronic things like Tik Tok until they were 18. They all see and hear and experience way too many adult things too soon in their lives. They need supervision on the internet, they really do.
-- Edited by Digger on Sunday 30th of May 2021 04:28:09 PM
What like?
From being 16 I used to hitch everywhere, from one end of the country to the other, it didn't cross my mind to get a train.
Foreign Hedge porn (with plenty of huge 'bushes') was an unbelievable horror when I was a child (worth fighting for between kids) and punishable by death (or sent to bed early for two nights after tea)!
The innocence of youth.
What was the Bentz Patent-Motorwagen like to ride in?
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 02:08:09 AM
I never hitched on my own but did with others. In those days it seemed safer, or was it?
I have no idea....I go off colour and whether it has a roof or not.
Back in the day anything that had wheels and could get me to my destination (and the driver didn't look like Norman Bates) would have done.
I always tried to hitch with a mate...unfortunately me and my best friend at the time were always falling out, so I did a few trips on my own....I think I was lucky, I was always safe.
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 31st of May 2021 05:24:36 PM
I played with fire, literally. Lucky we never burned anything but a few fingers.
Did a lot of things in cars, mixed with alcohol at rates of speed that were insane.
Is that you and your dad? Thanks for sharing.
A drunken speeding arsonist.....you win.
I was a lunatic.
Did you know that the word for crazy in Norway is Texas.
I think we all did stupid things when we were young, but drinking and driving is a big NO. But then I didn't learn to drive till I was more mature and I have always been aware of the damage you can do, not only to yourself, more importantly to others.
The main thing is, hopefully we all learn by our mistakes.
When I learned to drive, open containers of alcohol were legal in Texas. As long as you were 18, you could drive with a beer on the dashboard and take a sip in front of a cop. Doesn't mean they might not pull you over if they thought you were underage or drunk, but drinking and driving was legal and the "roadie" was pretty common. Even after the law changed, folks still continued the practice, but more discretly.
My kids are amazed that we used to buy beer, and drive around all night cruising while drinking it when we were in high school.
We also had crazy drink specials like 3 for 1 during certain times of the day or week. Or quarter beer night. Imagine a few hundred 18 -21 year olds, drinking beer at a bar for a quarter a piece, then staggering off to cars at 2 am.
My generation literally was the reason the drinking age was raised and DWI laws were changed. We were killing ourselves and everyone else around us.
Here it's 18 in bars, clubs etc ...to purchase in a shop it's 20.
We have some daft 2 for 1 offers, usually in clubs. But I think the European holiday isles are the most irresponsible. Happy hours that go on all night, free drinks for females, to attract the men in, then they wonder why fights start.
I honestly don't know whether my generation, my sons generation, or now my grandsons generation drank the most.....I was a teen in the swinging 60's, and I think we take some beating.
Bloody hell MD!
There must have been a shitload of deaths with pissed up teens driving all over the place! :surprise:
Then again...
-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 2nd of June 2021 07:21:54 PM