The popular squishy toy exploded after Caleb Chabolla put it in the microwave, Loyola Medicine said.

The popular squishy toy exploded after Caleb Chabolla put it in the microwave, Loyola Medicine said.

A 9-year-old boy in Illinois was hospitalized with severe burns after a TikTok trend inspired him to put his NeeDoh — a popular sensory toy — in the microwave.

Caleb Chabolla heard about the trend of heating the squishy toy from a friend at school and decided to try it on Jan. 20, Loyola Medicine said in a statement. His mother, Whitney Grubb, heard a “blood-curdling scream” as the gelatinous filling exploded on Caleb’s face and hands, it said.

Grubb took her son, whose eye had swollen shut, to the local emergency room, the statement said. He was transferred to Loyola Medicine’s Burn Center in the Chicago suburb of Maywood for further treatment and spent the night there.

  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    A 9-year-old boy in Illinois was hospitalized with severe burns after a TikTok trend inspired him to put his NeeDoh — a popular sensory toy — in the microwave.

    Caleb Chabolla heard about the trend of heating the squishy toy from a friend at school and decided to try it on Jan. 20

    I mean the moronic trend to microwave this particular toy started on tiktok so the headline isn’t really that far off.

    Kids have been have done idiotic things since time immemorial, just dumbasses on tiktok are incentivized now to amplify their dangerous actions to as many impressionable youths as they can.