Dangerous TikTok challenge leaves star football player, 16, disfigured and ‘unrecognizable’ with horrific burns after he used lighter and spray can to make homemade BLOWTORCH which exploded
- Mason Dark, 16, suffered third-degree burns after attempting a TikTok trend
- The football star was nearly killed in the stunt that comes with a warning
- He will be in the hospital for at least six months and undergo several surgeries
A 16 year-old boy has been disfigured and is ‘unrecognizable’ after taking part in a TikTok challenge which sees a lighter and spray can used to create a makeshift blowtorch.
Football star Mason Dark, 16, was attempting the trend this past Sunday when he nearly lost his life after the can of spray paint he was holding exploded with a huge bang.
Mason’s family recalled hearing a ‘boom’ at their home in Wake Forest, North Carolina, moments before they saw the teenager rush outside and jump into the lake with 75 percent of his body burned.
He was rushed to the hospital where he remains in the UNC Burn Center. The teenager’s mom, Holli Dark, told WRAL ‘he is unrecognizable.’ He has suffered severe third degree burns to 75 percent of his body.
Mason was seen in a recent photo asleep on the hospital bed while wrapped in white bandages. The extent of his injuries were unknown until Thursday when he underwent ‘the first of many surgeries’
Mason Dark, 16, suffered third-degree burns after attempting a TikTok trend. Pictured: Mason
Mason was seen in a recent photo asleep on the hospital bed while wrapped in white bandages. The extent of his injuries were unknown until Thursday when he underwent ‘the first of many surgeries.’
‘[We] come to find out now from the surgery, that he’s got the third-degree burns… it’s like a T in his back and it was from him taking off his shirt, and then it got stuck or something,’ Holli said.
‘We did not find out until yesterday that it was actually 76 percent of his body.’
Holli described her son as outgoing and is in disbelief she doesn’t recognize him.
‘The way he looked when those kids saw him when he first came in, to what he looks like now, it’s 100 times different,’ she told the news outlet.
Mason is expected to recover in the burn center for about six months as the extent of his condition remains fully unknown. According to Holli, her son’s condition is at risk for progressing.
‘He jumped into a river to extinguish the flames. The risk of infection from the river water is high, on top of having 2nd and 3rd degree burns,’ she wrote on GoFundMe.
As of Friday night, more than $17,000 was raised to assist with the teenager’s medical bills and other essentials.
Mason is one of several teenagers who has attempted the risky TikTok challenge.
Immediately after being burned, he jumped into the river to cool the burns. He will be in the hospital for at least six months and undergo several surgeries. Pictured: Mason after the incident
A photo of the teenager showed him being transported to the hospital following the incident
Mason’s mom, Holli Dark (center right), described her son as outgoing and is in disbelief she doesn’t recognize him
Several videos posted on the social media platform showed the challenge in action.
The most common way to perform the quest is by applying spray paint to a paper and lighting a flame on top. The flame stays in tact for as long as the lighter is on.
One daring TikToker decided to take the challenge a step further and took a can of spray paint to a fire pit – creating a massive blaze.
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