Doctors Warn Over Dangerous Viral Milk Crate Challenge
Health experts warned Wednesday that people should not attempt the latest viral challenge, walking over a pyramid of precariously balanced milk crates.
TikTok and other social media sites have been flooded in recent days by videos of people in the United States and beyond trying, and mostly failing, the climb the crates.
Most videos end with what looks like a painful fall onto the collapsing crates, or the ground, as onlookers film on their phones in what some dubbed an event in the “Hood Olympics.”
“You’re at risk for, hitting your head and getting a head bleed,” said Dr. Chad Cannon, an emergency room doctor at the University of Kansas Health System.
If “you land on the milk crate, you will break your back and be paralyzed.” Baltimore City Health pointed out that hospitals are already under strain from the pandemic. The official account tweeted:
“With Covid-19 hospitalizations rising around the country, please check with your local hospital to see if they have a bed available for you, before attempting the #milkcratechallenge.
While the hashtag was readily searchable on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, searches on TikTok returned no results.
“This phrase may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines. Promoting a safe and positive experience is TikTok’s top priority,” the search result page said.
The videos, and photographs of some appalling injuries, were reminiscent of an earlier internet sensation that had doctors tearing their hair out.
The 2018 Tide Pod Challenge saw young people biting into liquid laundry detergent packets. Some social media users pointed out the likelihood that not all of those appearing in these videos in the United States would get free medical treatment.
Others contrasted the willingness of people to attempt something so patently dangerous with the attitude to getting a coronavirus jab that has proven safe and effective.
“You’ll do the milk crate challenge but won’t get the vaccine. Got it,” quipped ‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei.
Just over half of Americans are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, despite the shots being free and widely available.
Doctors Warn Over Dangerous Viral Milk Crate Challenge
Health experts warned Wednesday that people should not attempt the latest viral challenge, walking over a pyramid of precariously balanced milk crates.
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NRL Prepares For Spike In Injuries After Rugby League Players Discover Milk Crate Challenge
The latest challenge to take the internet by storm has NRL executives increasingly nervous, as they predict that the reckless nature of ‘the milk crate challenge’ will greatly appeal to the average professional rugby league player.
The trend, which recently started on TikTok, challenges participants to stack a pyramid of thirty milk crates precariously, and attempt to climb to the top and then back down again without the whole thing exploding and causing extreme damage to whoever is on top.
As obscure as this new social media challenge is, the most bizarre aspect of it all is that so many people around the world somehow has access to thirty milk crates.
However, where there is will for stupidity to take place on social media, there is a way for NRL players to get involved.
As videos of people painfully stacking it go viral, NRL chairman Peter V’Landys has come out strong today warning NRL players of the dangerous injuries that can occur.
“Please. For the love of god” said Saint Peter.
“We are at the pointy end of the season and the last thing we need is Jarome or Victor breaking their ribs on the pointy corner of milk crate”
“Stick to the motorcross and firearms. You can do your little dances like Cleary did. But stay away from the damn crates”
With Australian hospitals already overwhelmed by the virus, the NRL is moving quickly to bring in immediate $20,000 fines for any player caught fucking around on these crates.
However, the competitive nature of the average NRL start appears to be a far greater force than the game’s bosses realise, with Melbourne storm star Josh Addo-Carr taking to Instagram to ask ‘who got da crates in the Sunny Coast???’
“Got some big money on the line here” wrote Addo Carr.
“Cheese don’t reckon I kind do it. Bout to show him”
“Ill do it with one leg datit”
NRL Prepares For Spike In Injuries After Rugby League Players Discover Milk Crate Challenge
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The latest challenge to take the internet by storm has NRL executives increasingly nervous, as they predict that the reckless nature of ‘the milk crate challenge’ will greatly appeal to the average professional rugby league player. The trend, which recently...
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