There is no shortage of bizarre, mindless and even dangerous social media challenges. Every few weeks we seem to have a new one that outstrips its predecessor on the idiocy scale. The latest is the so called skull breaker challenge. It is likely that most of us have received at least one video of the Skullbreaker challenge on WhatsApp, along with an appeal to ask kids never, ever to try this.
This consists of three kids jumping up and down in tandem. The two on the side kick the legs out from under the one in the middle causing them to fall suddenly.
As this compilation of videos of the skull breaker challenge shows the person in the centre falls hard and tends to hit their head.
It is quite likely something like this could result in a serious injury.
As the video above shows, the middle kid falls hard with a high likelihood of hitting the head and sustaining injuries. Across the board, people have appealed for awareness about this.
In this video, the kid in the centre fell and appeared to lose consciousness. There have been reports of genuine injuries; with some kids ending up in hospital as a result of this 'challenge'.
Kids always have an exaggerated sense of their own invincibility and tend to have little foresight about the possible dangerous outcomes of pranks.
Kids always tend to take unnecessary risks and this has always been the case. However, the internet amplifies and widens the reach of this inherent immaturity.
A lot of kids may try this because their friends did. The urge to conform, to be seen as cool and with-it is a big reason for the proliferation of these idiotic challenges, feel people.
Virat Kohli’s rather un-beautiful post about a ‘new post and a beautiful friend’ went viral (7k retweets, 160k likes).
The police quickly seized upon this and found some use of Kohli and co’s daft expressions. They creatively urged caution against the #SkullbreakerChallenge asking kids ‘don’t try’ and ‘parents beware’.
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