Girl suffers 70% burns on sunbed

[dalek sec]

I had an idea for a Doctor Who plot involving Tanning Beds. Tanning Beds were cooking people and were creating some sort of microwave-UV field that was going to cook the earth. Is it just me, or do teenage girls just find baking under a bank of UV-bombarders to be relaxing. Personal I would start crisping before I even walked in the door. Mostly becuase said young teenage girls would have me crucified and burning for not accepting Twilight as my one true God. BUT I DIGRESS. Fake n Bake is not "tanning" its irradiating yourself. Its kind of like sitting naked in front of an xray machine and getting bombarded for 16 minutes. Not good, and it will probably sterilize you.

Well it would help keep the stupid ones from breeding. So what else would happen in said episode of Doctor Who?

 

[Doug]

ooooouch? XD
that really must've hurt, i had sunburn on my arms once, although it was handy in the evenings when it was cold, it hurt whenever anyone patted my shoulder >_<

i hate fake tanning booths, but if people really want to use them that badly they should be very closely monitored i mean like a hawk!
would sunscreen even work on those things?

Probably, if applied thoroughly enough. One of the same range of light frequencies that comes from the sun. Anywho, it'll probably be harder to shield from the effects regardless.

Still, its ridiculous that these tanning booths are unmanned - the owners should be under a duty of care in order to operate this dangerous equipment.

Well, true. Brown white women (i.e. white women who've burned themselves brown) just looks odd and abit creepy to be honest.

I find I'm racist against orange ladies, though.
Ala Pamela Anderson.

I don't think thats classed as racism. Unless they start breeding orange-skinned children, although at that point, it'll be time for a culling!

Oh thank god.
I'll go get my "not racist" card back. I missed it!

Anyway, I would say we should cull them with fire, but I think they're immune.

Probably. Bullets would work still, I reckon. The hide might made them bullet proof, however.

 

[Caliostro]

Basically, ban unmanned machines outright, full stop. Frankly, they should ban all these cancer-makers outright, because the dim fuckwits will and do use them a ridiculous amount, and ended up a hide of leather.

To be honest, what the hell is wrong with people that they think fried is a good tone to look at? At least fake tan doesn't kill you slowly.

Anyways.... I doubt they will ban the tanning beds outright (sadly), but these unmanned machines are just ASKING for trouble to occur. If anything, the operator of the tanning place should be up in court for willfully disregarding the public safety. But anyways... bah.

This is the kind of mindset I'll never understand.

Why? Why help people who are too stupid to help themselves? LET'EM. Let them burn themselves. Let them toast till they're a curly crisp. If you live anywhere near those machines you live in a place civilized enough that you've been taught the dangers that come with it. If people still choose to do it, why must we fight to keep them from doing it? They're only hurting themselves, and they're doing so willingly... Don't we HONESTLY have better things to waste our time in? Like, I dunno, the millions starving to death not by choice but because they don't have an option...?

I feel so sorry for this girl, she's just a little kid. Also, to anyone who thinks ten years old is old enough to make rational and sane choices? Please never breed. Or take care of any children. My god. At that age you still think rhyming games are the shit, and that boys are creatures from the black lagoon.

I don't know about you, but when I was 10 I surely wasn't applying for NASA or discovering quantum physics, but I'm pretty sure the idea of sticking myself under a giant grill to burn my own skin for several times the normal usage period sounded pretty goddamn stupid.

The only similar thing I remember witnessing at that age was in 3rd grade... A classmate stuck his hand in a grill... And he was by far the dumbest in the class... Everyone else at the time knew that was pretty stupid... And they were around 7 - 8...

I guess what I'm trying to say is, just because you're not particularly smart at that age, doesn't mean you have to be particularly stupid either.

 

[yeah_so_no]

I love how everyone is blaming the mother as a bad parent--what, when you were ten, did your mother follow you everywhere you went? Were you not allowed to go anywhere with your friends as a child without your mother following around behind you? If so, my god, do I ever feel sorry for you.

Likewise, people calling the kid dumb and saying the mother should have told her to stay out of tanning beds...how many of your mothers told you to stay out of tanning beds when you were ten? Who thinks a ten-year-old is going to think a tanning bed is fun, and so should be told how long is dangerous to be in one? Heck, I didn't know until right now reading this that over 10 minutes in a tanning bed is dangerous, since I've never been in one and have no plans to ever use one.

It should have been monitored, or at the very least had a time limit mechanism on it.

 

[Lord Krunk]

My question: Why weren't they monitoring the sunbeds in the first place?

 

[Levziemuch]

I vote said mother keeps track of there 10 year old daughter...

 

[ix_tab]

I feel so sorry for this girl, she's just a little kid. Also, to anyone who thinks ten years old is old enough to make rational and sane choices? Please never breed. Or take care of any children. My god. At that age you still think rhyming games are the shit, and that boys are creatures from the black lagoon.

I don't know about you, but when I was 10 I surely wasn't applying for NASA or discovering quantum physics, but I'm pretty sure the idea of sticking myself under a giant grill to burn my own skin for several times the normal usage period sounded pretty goddamn stupid.

The only similar thing I remember witnessing at that age was in 3rd grade... A classmate stuck his hand in a grill... And he was by far the dumbest in the class... Everyone else at the time knew that was pretty stupid... And they were around 7 - 8...

I guess what I'm trying to say is, just because you're not particularly smart at that age, doesn't mean you have to be particularly stupid either.

It's not really to do with being stupid. It's being unable to understand consequence. Show me the ten year old who understand the principles of how a sunbed works and I will say to you, that is a mini Paris Hilton. I seriously doubt any 10 year old I know would understand that it is essentially a concentrated sunburn. People aren't educated about the dangers of sunbeds in the first place. There used to be heaps of talk about how they were safer then tanning in the sun.

 

[JWAN]

I bet she wont do it again!
learned her lesson
story over

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

I had an idea for a Doctor Who plot involving Tanning Beds. Tanning Beds were cooking people and were creating some sort of microwave-UV field that was going to cook the earth. Is it just me, or do teenage girls just find baking under a bank of UV-bombarders to be relaxing. Personal I would start crisping before I even walked in the door. Mostly becuase said young teenage girls would have me crucified and burning for not accepting Twilight as my one true God. BUT I DIGRESS. Fake n Bake is not "tanning" its irradiating yourself. Its kind of like sitting naked in front of an xray machine and getting bombarded for 16 minutes. Not good, and it will probably sterilize you.

Well it would help keep the stupid ones from breeding. So what else would happen in said episode of Doctor Who?

Oh, you know. Doctor tries to stop and is in a conundrum. Dosen't know whos controlling it etc. Finds out some evil. computer program. thing is inside the tanning beds and is using them to wipeout intelligent life. Kind of kike the Wire, except it feeds by baking all your flesh off and feeds off the carbon gas the corpses give off.

 

[Davidmcawesome]

This is the only way evolution can continue, let saftey go a bit, and let the fools kill each other, Id say it would help, even if I may end up a victim.

 

[dalek sec]

Oh, you know. Doctor tries to stop and is in a conundrum. Dosen't know whos controlling it etc. Finds out some evil. computer program. thing is inside the tanning beds and is using them to wipeout intelligent life. Kind of kike the Wire, except it feeds by baking all your flesh off and feeds off the carbon gas the corpses give off.

Awesome, you should send that idea in after you flesh out the details.

 

[Blow_Pop]

No, monitoring isn't needed. Underage restriction program IS. (Having a personal ID card or something.)

I agree with this really, it was the girls own fault.

It is. She should have been smart enough NOT to fry herself. But tanning yourself seems to be a cool thing to do. Me, I prefer being as white as possible. It makes me happier that way. My left arm has a tan only cause I hang it out the window when driving all the time. Go figure.

 

[ix_tab]

Also rhyming games suck.
That is all.

You shut your goddamn whore mouth, rhyming games were the coolest thing in the universe when I was 7.

And don't get me started on the awesomeness of hand clap chants.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

Oh, you know. Doctor tries to stop and is in a conundrum. Dosen't know whos controlling it etc. Finds out some evil. computer program. thing is inside the tanning beds and is using them to wipeout intelligent life. Kind of kike the Wire, except it feeds by baking all your flesh off and feeds off the carbon gas the corpses give off.

Awesome, you should send that idea in after you flesh out the details.

yeah somewhere between now and whenever I finish Dreamscar, Black Sky, Candleflame, After Nightfall, Fall of Night and Horizons Once Lost.

 

[ix_tab]

Also rhyming games suck.
That is all.

You shut your goddamn whore mouth, rhyming games were the coolest thing in the universe when I was 7.

And don't get me started on the awesomeness of hand clap chants.

***** I will hit you.
Get back in the kitchen and make me some goddamn pie.

Also hand clap chants are for hippies and girls.
And neither exist on the internet.
<color=white>Yes I am aware you are a girl. But facts cannot get in the way.

Time to slink back barefoot and pregnant into the pie factory! With my handclaps and my starry eyed ideals about free love and self expression and this really awesome brown acid I bought off this hep cat called Compost.