"No Lackin" Challenge Results In Teen Shooting His Friend In The Head
These challenges have really spun out of control.
The dumbest one by far is this No Lackin' challenge where people would run up on their friends with guns drawn as a joke.
In this case, the gun went off and a teenager almost accidentally killed his friend.
A 17-year-old boy is fighting for his life at a Tennessee hospital Saturday night after a botched attempt at an Internet craze left him in a critical condition.
Sherman Lackland, 21, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and unlawful possession of a weapon after he accidentally shot his friend in the head while enacting his rendition of the 'No Lackin Challenge.'The pair were sitting in a booth at E's Cafe in Memphis around 5.15pm Thursday evening when the incident occurred, local police told CBS affiliate WREG 13.'All young kids,' said Ron Eanes, area manager at E's Cafe. 'They were sitting there talking, and they started showing each other a gun and it accidentally went off.'Eanes added: 'Such stupidity. Anybody could get hurt.'
Luckily for the wounded teenager, a doctor happened to be eating inside the restaurant when the gun went off, and immediately tended to the boy's care.
The 17-year-old was then taken to Methodist University Hospital, situated across the street from the diner, and treated inside the ER. The boy remains in critical condition.Witness Thomas Fitzpatrick told the broadcaster: '[There was] a real loud bang, then I see the guy across from [Lackland] fall in the floor.
'He started grabbing him and telling him to get up and then he was kind of mad and was swinging stools and stuff.'
Other dangerous fads have been sweeping the internet including the Tide Pod challenge, where teenagers dare each other to eat laundry detergent pouches, and the Ice and Salt challenge where young people have been left suffering from extreme burns similar to frostbite. -(Daniel Roth, Daily Mail UK)