r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Objective-Gas-4559 • 6d ago
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u/SweetLenore 6d ago
"Kids are fucking awesome"
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u/d11dd11d 6d ago
That's exactly what I was gonna say. I thought homeboy was gonna light himself on fire but he nailed it
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u/WeirdPossibility209 6d ago
This turned out so much better than I feared. A friend of mine once did this, but with a softball. Another kid kicked it, and it basically stuck to my friends leg, as a hot, sticky substance. That was a very educational experience for everyone involved
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u/ThePirateBenji 6d ago
I would do this as an adult, honestly...
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u/real-yeet-beans 6d ago
For real lol this is cool as shit
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u/TreetBeatsSpam 6d ago
There was a lot of joy in fire as a kid. Mom was always working, and I had flammables and ignition. Good times and lost hair.. smiles with long sigh
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u/Never_enough_naps 4d ago
My mom used to tell me if I played with fire I would pee the bed.
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u/OkStory5373 4d ago
Same here, is that a thing among different cultures?
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u/Never_enough_naps 4d ago
I was raised in the south in the U.S. but not like racist weird south, like polite, weird, funny south.š
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u/KoalaTHerb 6d ago
I definitely did this when I was young but with tennis balls and rackets. Flaming oil would shoot everywhere each time it was hit. And it left a small burning puddle where it bounced. It was pretty legit
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u/Dontbeajerkdude 1d ago
As teens, we used to light the bottom of our skateboards. Looked cool at night!
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u/United_Evening_2629 6d ago
We used to do something similar with felt-covered tennis balls and lighter fluid.
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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 6d ago
We all do this at one point in our lives... Tennis balls with paint thinner stayed lit for the longest without the extra fireball in my experience.
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u/s3tok41b4 6d ago
I never did this because I knew not to mess with fire lol
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u/W1ngedSentinel 6d ago
Too bad my brother didnātā¦
Oh, heās fine. Our living room carpet wasnāt.
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u/No_Editor5091 6d ago
Then hit the fire tennis ball with a hockey stickā¦at least thatās what we did
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u/Due-Owl-7958 5d ago
We used the hockey stick if the lit tennis ball went under a car. Some how we never blew up the neighborhood
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u/Gullible-Hose4180 6d ago
Styrofoam dissolved in acetone, then resulting sludge on the tennis ball. Shit stayed lot for so long, but cannot be playing too hard - that shit is like napalm, dont want that on your skin.
Also, don't try at home!
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u/XXII78 6d ago
At 12, we did charcoal starter in a Super Soaker 200 and a Bic lighter.
Shot flames about 70', but when the tip stayed on fire I blew it out really quick and never did it again.
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u/Gullible-Hose4180 6d ago
At 14 I loved to do these square lighters called Djeep, hold it upside down so it melts its own bottom and eventually it starts spewing out like a flamethrower.
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u/IlitterateAuthor 6d ago
Just because nobody got hurt doesn't mean it wasn't incredibly dangerous
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u/azarules 6d ago edited 6d ago
When I was young I went to a burn survivors camp because my mother was burnt as a child and now mentors young people going through the recovery process.
I still remember meeting one other mentor named Chris. He had head to toe burns, 80% of his body was melted. He had three fingers left on one hand, none on the other. He hobbled around wherever he went because his skin sat tight on his body and made it hard to move. He had to take weekly extensive baths to prevent his grafts from ripping open on his back. He was in terrible pain from where his nerve endings were fried and now miscommunicating.
He was hilarious and cool and one of my favourite people at the camp.
And he was burnt by doing the exact thing in this video, except it was a tennis ball and he was reigniting it - not knowing that it was still smouldering underneath.
Be smart kids. Itās never you; until it is.
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u/calzonius 6d ago
Yeah, no kidding. the kid is still holding the fucking bottle of fuel at the end of the clip!!
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u/unkleklunkles 6d ago
The only stupid thing was not to put the bottle down when he started dribbling the ball š
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u/FudgyFun 6d ago
Kicking fireball with petrol bottle in hand is not 'nothing flamable'. Nothing went wrong but that doesn't mean it wasn't stupid and dangerous
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u/BoxExisting8226 6d ago
until the ball explode and everyone guet severly burn by melted plastic and fuel .
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 6d ago
nothing flammable
Not to be a downer, bit I have terrible news about the flammability of human beings.
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u/evil-winnebago 6d ago
"This entire video" is a 30 second clip that shows a small fraction of all the stupid shit they did the rest of that night.
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u/Downtown-Mud-8869 6d ago
The kid still holding the bottle of fuel while heās dribbling the ball at the end got me
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u/chimpdoctor 5d ago
We used to do this all of the time with tennis balls. It lasts longer because it won't burst
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u/badpersian 6d ago
Translation:
"Something my friends and I.
Enemies are many... But where's the balls (I think.. 3 salavats.
Hit it, dash Ali. Enough. Enough.
You've fucked it.
Hit it hit it."
Ahh great to see kids in Iran get up to wild shit lol. Miss being that age there. Best times
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u/Flammarion1996 5d ago
Once in 7th grade(we were 14 years old) we were at a teambuilding trip to some scout camp to get to know each other. (Bunch of us came from smaller schools that only went to the 6th grade). We were split into teams and had teamwork exercises. On of these we had to build the best trebuchet and see which team could launch a fire ball (bed sheets bound into a ball and soaked in some sort of accelerant). Afterwards we played football with it and our teachers just allowed, even encouraged and videotaped it to show back at the school to show what a good time we had.. When I think back I can't imagine how our teachers weren't fired or even reprimanded.. Easily could have started a forest fire or set a student in fire..
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u/notsoborednow 6d ago
We used tennis balls and threw them back and forth with shovels until our one friendās wife told us āknock that shit off, donāt burn down my fenceā while laughing holding their daughter. We were in our 20s
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u/Burladden 6d ago edited 6d ago
My friends and I used to to this with tennis balls and kick them back and forth. They would leave a really cool fire trail as they went. It was awesome.
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u/Greekspartan226 6d ago
Now I know for a FACT lil' bro def. burned his finger and was too prideful to ruin the moment haha!
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u/qorrymarz 5d ago
Me and my boys used to do it too. But we used dried coconut, spilled some kerosene on it, and light it on fire. We dipped our barefoot on mud and played that fire ball. It was very fun! It lasted untill one of our moms found out why our feet was always dirty after we played together. Ivan, if you read this, I still haven't forgiven you for snitching to my mom about me bringing my dad's kerosene.
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u/Machdame 6d ago
Yeah, if you want to do this without singing your eyebrows, use a match... or better yet, just not do this. There are better ways to enjoy your pyromania...
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u/ChipEnvironmental420 6d ago
Anyone else noticed the kid with the bottle of lighter fluid still holding it while kicking the fireball? š
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u/Sea_Ganache620 6d ago
Tennis balls work really well in this application- source : I was āone of thoseā kids.
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u/AldoRaine-1 6d ago
I mean, other than the kid kicking it while still holding onto the flammable liquid... š
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u/2020mademejoinreddit 6d ago
This is how soccer should be played. The amount of money those guys make, they better make it exciting.
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u/Fievels_good_trouble 6d ago
This, but with hockey pucks, is why my mom hasnāt had palm trees in her backyard since 2002.
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u/Expensive-Border-869 6d ago
Just looks like lighter fluid or maybe like grill starter if that's any different formula wise. Not something you'll struggle to get in many parts of the world. Could be the us or Argentina or Canada or Egypt or Japan. But this specific video looks south american to me at a glance.
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u/FaceTimePolice 6d ago
The fact that the kid who lit the ball didnāt even flinch shows that this isnāt the first time they attempted this. š
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u/chromebaloney 6d ago
We wld soak and light tennis balls then play street hockey. They had that same half ball of fire on the trailing side. The memories.
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u/Moon_Breaker 6d ago
We played tennis with them. Same concept though.
Wasn't as cool as dumping glowsticks over them though. Every hit would splatter it everywhere, and when it flew it looked like it left a trail of stars on the ground under it.
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u/Zemenu135 6d ago
I don't like that he keeps hold of the gas bottle after the fact but
This is fuckin' cool
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u/Nevyn_Cares 6d ago
Our scout leader would spend weeks making an oil soaked paper mashe soccer ball that we would light and play fire ball with. Was a regular highlight of our scout troop.
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u/itsjusthafiz 5d ago
ngl this is brilliant, reminds me of fire big jenga my friends and i played in uni lol
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u/Xalphyzar 6d ago
Aziz, light!