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9-year-old Illinois boy severely burned after TikTok trend inspired him to microwave NeeDoh toy (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kids these days and their Tiktoks. When I was a kid, I was microwaving toys all on my own, just for the love of the game!

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

I know we at least had tv adverts and posters etc warning us of dangers of hot water etc. now they get told to do the stupid stuff and they go do.