TikTok challenge leaves football player Mason Dark, 16, ‘unrecognisable’ with horrific burns across 75 per cent of body | The Sun
A DANGEROUS TikTok challenge has left a teenager 'unrecognisable' after he suffered horrific burns all over his body.
Football player Mason Dark, 16, was left with serious injuries across 75 per cent of his body after he attempted to create a makeshift blowtorch.
The latest TikTok trend sees users trying to make the blowtorch using a lighter and a spray can.
Mason nearly lost his life after the can he was holding exploded in his hands.
The teen's mother, Holli, recalled the phone call she received from his friends informing her that he had been in an accident in a video online.
“I went to sleep and we get the call from one of his best friends that there was an accident and something with spray paint blew up, Mason was burned, he jumped in the river, he can’t really move around, it’s really kind of a blur."
She later said in another clip: “I hate this, I hate that we’re going through this. These kids, I really really wish that we could let these kids know the dangers of all of this stuff and the risks that they take on such stupid stuff thinking they’re having a good time.”
The teen, from Wake Forest, North Carolina, ran outside and hurled himself into a lake, with 75 per cent of his body burned.
Mason was rushed to the hospital and remains in the UNC Burn Center.
Gut-wrenching photos show the teen lying in a hospital bed wrapped in bandages.
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His mom, Holli Dark, told WRAL her son "is unrecognisable" with third-degree burns on three-quarters of his body.
She said: "[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.
"We did not find out until yesterday that it was actually 76 percent of his body."
The teen is expected to recover from his injuries and is expected to be in a burn centre for six months.
His mom added: "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.
"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."
A GoFundme page has been launched by the teen's family, has raised over $18,000.
The page regularly provides updates on his condition.
The last update reads: "Mason has made it past the first 24 hrs, Praise the Lord! They are trying to regulate his body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing."
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