YouTube Stunts Sending Teens To The Hospital (VIDEO)

Could YouTube be hazardous to your health?

A CBS report examines how an increasing number of teens have suffered injuries--burns, broken bones, and more--in the quest for viral video fame.

One doctor says he's seen a fourfold increase in injuries suffered by kids attempting to pull off "outrageous acts"--stunts they've seen on YouTube and hope to recreate.

Do you think YouTube could be sending people to the hospital as they attempt to copy "dangerous viral videos"? Tell us in the comments section below.

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Comments

[jola826]

03:39 PM on 06/18/2010

YouTube isn't doing anything wrong. These kids parents are the ones who are failing!!!

[bigdaveh]

06:45 PM on 06/17/2010

Darwinism at it's finest

[bmoons]

03:44 PM on 06/17/2010

yea lazy parents blame others for their kids being complete and utter idiots. thats what happens when you park your kids in front of the tv their whole lives and give no boundaries.

[Danteus]

12:05 PM on 06/17/2010

YouTube is not bad for people's health. Stupidity is what's bad for people's health.
Just like the song says, if you wanna be dumb, you've gotta be tough.

[Conk]

10:56 AM on 06/17/2010

It's Obama's fault!

[snorrk]

02:44 PM on 06/17/2010

Aw, you beat Sarah and Rush to that comment.

[LogicOnlyPlease]

01:15 AM on 06/18/2010

More like both MSNBC and Fox. Obama is bad news all around lately.

[joymora]

10:13 AM on 06/17/2010

This video should be uploaded onto YouTube.

[RTIII]

02:18 PM on 06/17/2010

Then do it.

[Tecmage]

09:59 AM on 06/17/2010

I remind my 4 and 6 year old all the time that what they see on television (and YouTube) isn't real, or isn't something they should be trying. You think that older kids...

[jonnyfrag]

09:37 AM on 06/17/2010

It's just evolutions way of thinning the herd
They would find stupid ways of taking themselves out even if there were no Youtube...upside now is the rest of us get to see it. Win/win

[huffponewbie]

04:40 PM on 06/17/2010

Tell me about it. There was nothing in this video that we did not do as kids (we used dry ice not baking soda and vinegar) and we had no youtube.

[Heather Mac]

09:28 AM on 06/17/2010

Do I think YouTube is doing it? No, I think stupid kids are doing stuff that gets them sent to the hospital. I do think YouTube enables it, though.

[SuperRyan]

08:38 AM on 06/17/2010

So this woman wants Youtube to monitor her children?
How about she monitors what her kids are doing, both on-line and in the real world.
This isn't Youtube's fault, it's dumb parents passing on useless genetics to their children and then not taking the responsibilities of being a parent.

[b1rd67]

08:15 AM on 06/17/2010

First it was the fault of violent movies, then it was video game, now its YouTube...

Its a wild goose chase looking to blame someone/something when children misbehave but since the beginning of time the cause has always been the same.... bad parents!

[SuperRyan]

08:40 AM on 06/17/2010

Don't forget music. The Helen Lovejoys of the world love to blame whatever society ills on the latest band.

[b1rd67]

08:55 AM on 06/17/2010

Thanks I forgot all about that evil rock and roll music... mamma says its from the debil!

[rtb61]

07:10 AM on 06/17/2010

What to control what minors do on the internet. Than create a secure and monitored minors only internet. The greatest threat to children has always been other children, big difference nowadays marketing organisation make use of peer pressure to market products regardless of consequences. Risk taking, raunch etc. they all all on the table for adults to manipulate impressionable children.

[PedroMC]

05:04 AM on 06/17/2010

Their not Youtubes stunts, just stupid kids stunts.

The title should be Stupid stunts posted online ... youtube isn´t the only one

[Tunghoy]

01:12 AM on 06/17/2010

How do we get more teabaggers to watch YouTube?

[mmm pecan pie]

12:56 AM on 06/17/2010

I think we should sue God for giving out testosterone.