must have been a "double-dog dare"

[Wheezer]

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In a scene straight out of the movie "A Christmas Story," a 10-year-old Hammond, Ind., boy got his tongue stuck to a metal light pole.

Shortly after 8:30 a.m., police found the boy with his tongue stuck to a streetlight pole, Bedford newspaper The Times reported. Temperatures in Hammond were around 10 degrees at the time.

The Field Elementary School fourth-grader managed to mumble to police that a friend had dared him to lick the fixture.

By the time an ambulance arrived, the boy was able to yank his tongue off the frozen pole, police said.

Medics explained to the boy's mother, whom they described as "pretty upset," how to care for his bleeding tongue.

"You'd think everybody in the country had seen 'A Christmas Story' by now," a police officer told The Times. "Remember what happened to Flick."

The 1983 movie is set in a fictional city based on Hammond, Ind., the hometown of author Gene Shepherd.

if his friends were real friends they would have peed on it.

 

[Beev]

Hell I'm almost 25 and I've never seen that movie.

 

[coldmeat]

This is news?

 

[James Bond]

So if you pour warm water on the pole/tongue will it get you free or just freeze over and make it worse?

 

[Mr Pickles]

No source. Probably came from some bullshit website. Kids do this every day. This isn't news.

 

[spidey07]

I thought everybody did this at some point in their life. And quickly learned you don't do it again. Got mine frozen to the jungle gym bars.

 

[glenn beck]

more like a triple-dog-dare

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: glenn beck
more like a triple-dog-dare

That's the coup de grace of all dares! :shocked:

 

[JulesMaximus]

Deck the harrs with boughs of horry, fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: glenn beck
more like a triple-dog-dare

That's the coup de grace of all dares! :shocked:

The question should be, was there a breach of etiquette by skipping the triple-dare and going straight to the triple-dog-dare.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
No source. Probably came from some bullshit website. Kids do this every day. This isn't news.

It made the news a month ago.

I think even posted here.