12 Terrifying Teen 'Games' Your Kid Could Be Playing
Credit to Jeanne Sager- Cafemom- The Stir
Taken from great article posted:
30 Seconds Game: You may know it as a knowledge game
akin to charades. But among kids, it's generally accepted that playing
30 Seconds means kids fight as hard as they can for half a minute, and
the onlookers declare a "winner." By some definitions, the fighting
requires punching someone directly in the face, repeatedly.
Skittling: Forget about the yummy candy. Think about
what is in your medicine cabinet, because this "game" involves teens
raiding Mom and Dad's pills, throwing them all into one pot, and then
grabbing a random handful of colorful little capsules, downing them in
one incredibly dangerous swallow.
ABC Game: It sounds educational, doesn't it? But this
twisted form of Scattegories
has almost killed kids who have the letters of the alphabet scratched
into their hand over and over by a "friend" as they're forced to name
off items in a particular category that begin with each letter of the
alphabet (hence ABC). The scratcher continues until the competitor makes
it all the way through the alphabet, cutting deeper and deeper into the
skin, often leaving behind infected wounds.
Hide and Seek: Oooh, we used to
play this when we were little, right? Not exactly. The teen version
involves, what else, cars. The hiders turn off their headlights, and the
seeker has to find them on the dark road. Of course, no one else can
see the darkened cars, and inexperienced teen drivers without headlights
can't see where they're going.
Ghosting: There's no seeker in this game, just a
bunch of kids who turn off the headlights and drive as fast as they can.
I don't really have to describe the risks, do I?
European Vacation: Yet another reason to make you
fear the trip to the DMV, this "trip" involves one teen driver motoring
in the right lane while their pal moves over to the left lane to drive
beside them.
Sack Tapping: Remember when you used to punch your
friends in the arm to make it go dead? That was nothing compared to the
pain suffered when a boy is hit in the, ahem, balls, and subsequently
loses his testicle.
Trunking: Forcing a pal to
ride in the trunk of a car may sound reasonable if you've watched too many mob movies, but it's been known to actually kill kids.
Surfing: Oh, if this only involved water.
Riding
atop a moving car is something done for generations, and yet kids are
still dumb enough to do it, often with disastrous results.
Robotripping: Drinking cough syrup like it's a
bottle of water, this is supposed to help kids hallucinate.
Unfortunately, it can also kill them.
Planking: It's not just for kids, and yet it's still
dangerous to lie face down in a random spot for laughs. If you're doing
it in the middle of the road, you risk getting run over. Doing it on a
balcony? Well, you could fall several stories like the Australian man
killed last year.
Choking Game: Just because it's the game that gets
the most press doesn't mean kids aren't still trying to achieve a high
by cutting off the oxygen to the brain. This can knock kids unconscious
or, much worse, cause brain damage or even death. Exact affects are hard
to track, because choking game deaths are simply labeled as suicides.
The CDC estimates 800 to 1,000 kids between the ages of 10 to 19
die of strangulation
every year, and sadly that includes some kids who just thought they
were playing a game. It's also called the fainting game,
pass-out, good kids high, and choking off, among other names.
Of course we here at Ed4Ed4all are very familiar with many of these, the choking game being one of the most deadly right now, all of these "games" are so very dangerous.
