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Teen burning their hands taking the "Salt & Ice Challenge"

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Updated: 5/01/2012 7:05 am
SAN ANTONIO - There is a dangerous new game teens are trying and it's using items found in just about every household.

The game is called "Salt and Ice", and it's a hit on YouTube.

Teens are putting salt on their skin and then pressing ice onto it until the pain becomes too severe to tolerate.

Water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit, but adding salt causes the freezing point to drop to as low as zero degrees fahrenheit.

Depending how long competitors resist the urge to remove the ice, they could face blistering, first-or second-degree burns or even frostbite.
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akhenaten - 5/3/2012 6:37 AM
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Monkeys did this millions of years ago and the only ones to survive had an opposing thumb.

cazador87 - 5/1/2012 10:14 AM
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This isn't really new, I remember doing this crap when I was a kid. And no, it's not really harmful. This is just another overblown, over-hyped media scare.

PeekABoo - 5/1/2012 10:03 AM
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wow...how fkn stupid are these kids?

bluthunder - 4/30/2012 8:02 PM
4 Votes
darwinism at its best!

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