Picture this: it’s Saturday night, you’re in the exclusive hub of Sydney that likes to think it’s not actually Sydney at all—northern farkin beaches, mate—all your boys are there, you’ve had a few hundred bevvies, it’s a bloody good one by all accounts, but, hell: it’s missing something.
Searching, you’re not sure what it is. Granted, the borderline moonshine goon concoction you’re drinking is on the disappointingly too sweet side, and nothing hilarious enough has happened to make the night worth remembering tomorrow. It’s up to you to make something happen, it’s your time to shine, your time to…burn. So you do what isn’t asked, but what is certainly expected: you literally douse yourself with flammables and set yourself on fire.
Some men just want to watch the world burn; some dudes just want to have a sick time.
This is, of course, exactly what happened last night in Collaroy Plateau on the Sydney’s northern beaches at a party, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. An eighteen-year-old “agreed” to be set alight with aerosols and flammables just after midnight this morning, leading to a trip in an ambulance to the ER and “superficial but excessive” burns on his back.
According to SMH, the man was in a stable condition in hospital by Sunday morning. SMH guesses that the incident may have been an attempt of the infamous “fire challenge” craze that’s become popular in the States. Either way: call off the search, Sydney’s dumbest dude has been found. Insults, at this point, are fruitless.
Via SMH.
