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Kids, don't try this at home.
The idea of the social-media "challenge," in which young people do dumb or crazy things on camera, then post them to their various streams, appropriately hashtagged to spread the word, may have hit a tragic end in Detroit.
A 12-year-old Detroit girl, Timiyah Landers, is hospitalized with burns on 50 percent of her body, following a "fire challenge" that had her putting rubbing alcohol on her arm, then setting it ablaze, local media sources are reporting.
The Detroit News reports the girl's mother, Brandi Owens, said she heard a pop. Then:
They left the bedroom for the hallway, where they saw Landers running down the hall, screaming and on fire, from her knees to her hair.
Tamiyah's mother and fiance doused her with water, then rushed her to Children's Hospital, where she will remain for some time -- months, the News reports. She'll need several surgeries on the way to recovery.
Landers can't talk yet, as she has a feeding tube installed, but has been able to nod yes and no and communicate nonverbally with her family, which consists of three other sisters and a brother.
Owens said she is considering legal action against YouTube, where the girls found the fire challenge video.
Past social-media challenges have involved eating a teaspoonful of cinnamon, ghost peppers, Tide Pods and probably the most viral -- the Ice Bucket Challenge, which raised money for ALS research.