Teen Accidentally Sets His Face on Fire After Trying to Impress His Friends
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By Bryan Ke
What started off as nothing more than showing off a trick to friends ended up being a total disaster for a 16-year-old kid in China after he set his face on fire during a fire-breathing demonstration.
The incident happened at a street corner in Gaoyou county, in eastern-central China’s Jiangsu Province, when the unnamed individual attempted to perform a fire-breathing performance for his friends, according to Shanghaiist.
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Video from the incident shows the young man was somewhat successful in breathing fire at first, but it soon took a drastic turn when the fireball came back to him and immediately engulfed his face.
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As said in the report, the kid learned how to perform fire-breathing from his Taoist priest father, and had often performed the feat at several occasions in the past, including at a wedding. The incident certainly baffled people who knew him with what went wrong with the trick.
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The young man was immediately rushed to the hospital to tend the burns that reportedly covered most of his face.
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