{"id":1145683,"date":"2021-12-23T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145683"},"modified":"2021-12-23T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:34:51","slug":"swedish-youth-damages-eyesight-after-tik-tok-homemade-bomb-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swedish-youth-damages-eyesight-after-tik-tok-homemade-bomb-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Youth Damages Eyesight After Tik Tok &#039;Homemade Bomb&#039; Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswedish-youth-damages-eyesight-after-tik-tok-homemade-bomb-trend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1145683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-953130956-1-e1640264926646-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Swedish youth has suffered damage to their eyes after taking part in a trend on the social media platform Tik Tok that involved mixing chemicals to make a homemade explosive.<\/p>\n<p>The youth, who was not identified by name or age, is a student of the&nbsp;Dalsj\u00f6skolan school in the city of&nbsp;Bor\u00e5s and is said to have damaged their eyesight after making a homemade explosive as part of a trend on Tik Tok.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s serious, even though we don\u2019t really know the consequences yet,\u201d&nbsp;Dalsj\u00f6skolan principal&nbsp;Maria Persson said, remarking that to prevent more incidents, it was important parents be informed what children were consuming on social media, SVT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/vast\/ungdom-i-boras-kommun-skadade-synen-allvarligt-testade-ny-tiktok-trend\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the broadcaster, the incident is not the first in Sweden in which a child has been injured while trying to take part in the trend, which has children mix easily purchased chemicals in a bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago,&nbsp;13-year-old Samuel Tingl\u00f6f Bjelkmark from the municipality of Salem in Stockholm county, also tested the trend and the bottle blow up in his hand, causing injuries the required him to be taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Swedish capital city of Stockholm saw a record number of explosions and bombings in 2020 despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic theoretically encouraging people to stay at home, according to police statistics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4eGXjqCoJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/h4eGXjqCoJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1352199508868775937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re risking too much. You risk your eye, you almost risk your face,\u201d he told SVT and added, \u201cYou\u2019re not ready when it blows. Some others who have done this have been worse off, I think I\u2019m the one who\u2019s been the lucky one of all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue is not the first controversial trend to appear on the social media platform, which has seen injuries from trends such as the \u201cskull breaker challenge\u201d which saw high school teens in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/craziest-tiktok-challenges-so-far\/\">charged with misdemeanour battery<\/a> as a result, or the \u201cBenadryl challenge\u201d which involved drinking the cough medicine to hallucinate and led to the death of a 15-year-old in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, has previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/27\/tiktok-executive-insists-company-does-not-give-user-information-to-communist-china\/\">suspected of sharing user data with the Chinese government but in October, claimed<\/a> that it did not share any user data at a U.S. Senate hearing.<\/p>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish youth has suffered damage to their eyes after taking part in a trend on the social media platform Tik Tok that involved mixing chemicals to make a homemade &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}