Things sure have changed since I was in school.
Ontario boy may have agreed to be set on fire
An incident in which a 14-year-old boy was badly burned at an Ontario high school after being doused with Axe body spray and set alight, has uncovered a disturbing practice that police say is happening across the province and beyond.
The boy suffered first-, second- and third-degree burns to his torso Tuesday afternoon when another male student doused him with the spray and set him on fire. He was treated and released from hospital.
“This is a fairly common thing around the province,” said Middlesex Ontario Provincial Police Const. Doug Graham.
Graham said police were aware that kids were taking body sprays, in particular Axe and Tag, spraying them on objects and lighting them on fire, but since Tuesday’s incident at a London-area school they have learned that lighting people ablaze — usually for a split second — is a popular pastime among some teens.
“Now we have asked around the school about this and they said ‘Yeah, we do this,’” said Graham.
20. JImR :- Obvious didn’t hang out with my sort then! I had my pant leg lit by a friend when I was thirteen, wearing long underwear and fake-wool socks…. they all melted onto my leg and caused third degree burns… couldn’t walk for a weeks…. still, it was all in the name of a good joke so no hard feelings…
#n everyone
Just for the record, I didn’t say Canada’s health care system was “bad” or “too expensive”. I just freak out when I hear people say it’s “free” and “paid by the state”.
Doctors in Canada get rich off somebody and l’etat, ce’st moi!
Mr. Waymark has a point about teenagers but they’ll be paying more than their fair share later!
22. Cineadh: Unless, like me, they sucked teat for as long as they could then bugger off to other parts of the word (often the US, but in my case the UK) before they have to pay their due…
#23 Ben
I have a theory that everything always balances out in the end.
One way or another, I’ll bet you end up paying somebody somewhere sometime.
If not, good for you for beating the system! There always has to be an exception to a rule and it might as well be you as some scumbag politician.
PWNED!!
Things have changed, we just used to light farts.