Girl suffers 70% burns on sunbed
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It takes about 4 hours in direct summer sunlight for me to get a tan. Is it attractive? Yes. Is it worth it? You bet. Does it help get women? Absolutely.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, she's 10. At 10 I never said "know what sounds right to me? Going into a tanning salon." Let's see... at 10 years old... it was 1995... oh yes: I was figuring out these damn codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_3
It takes about 4 hours in direct summer sunlight for me to get a tan. Is it attractive? Yes. Is it worth it? You bet. Does it help get women? Absolutely.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, she's 10. At 10 I never said "know what sounds right to me? Going into a tanning salon." Let's see... at 10 years old... it was 1995... oh yes: I was figuring out these damn codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_3
I feel bad for the girl, being a burn survivor myself, and unless you have had massive burns, you can't understand the kind of pain involved. Now with that out of the way, it is my opinion that if we can't outlaw tanning booths altogether, to quote Max, "leathery skin go", then the least that should be required is to have them supervised.
The big irony is that I guarentee you that it won't be too long until having a tan is no longer the hot and sexy look, back in the victorian times (and for quite a while afterwards) being pale and looking slightly ill all the time was considered to be very attractive (it showed that you didn't do physical work and thus were rich and high in status), recently, the tanned and weathered look has become popular (although it now recieves a lot of flak and bad press which will eventually result in being pale and frail being the new look).traceur_ said:
Yes, it is sad that this child has gone through what she has (and went through it because she was curious) but at the end of the day it was an unmanned booth so whatever way you look at it she did it to herself and is fully responsible for her own actions.
It's a shame the 10 year old feels she needs to deface her body like this. At 10 kids should be climbing trees and thinking the opposite sex is 'icky' instead of trying to look older and more attractive.
This. Assuming the girl is able to read, it must have been hard for her not to notice the big sign on the door indicating that she really shouldn't have been in there using the tanning beds. So, her predicament gets a big "slashcry" from me in that regard. A "slashcry" means I don't really care, by the way.ZeeClone said:
It does make me wonder though why these tannings salons are unmanned - seems like a recipe for disaster if you ask me. Perhaps better to have them manned than shut them down - that way some people will actually get a job in this wonderfully prosperous nation.
Yeah, because movie theaters would let a 10 year old see chainsaw massacre, obviously they would be wise enough to follow the R18+ only directions.ZeeClone said:
I agree with Captain Blackout, while I sympathise with your lack of sympathy, I try to pride myself on being heartless, this is going a little too far. The child was unsupervised, was that her fault? If you can't even forgive a 10 year old for being a little foolish especially when they are out without parental supervision and with a pocket full of money, then perhaps you need to reconsider your own, high and mighty status.Caliostro said:
When I was ten I don't think I even knew suntanning places existed let alone their dangers. This is one of the few occasions I think sueing is acceptable. Unmanned sun tan facilities? Are these only in America? High time these should be shut down or at least staffed.
Coin operated sun beds? That such a terrible idea how didn't they see this coming. I've been to a place like this once (my family made me for a vacation don't ask) and there was a person there who would tell you how long you should be in there for and control the beds. Cooking yourself in a machine is risky business I can't believe these things exist.
Exactly, and from the article:Khell_Sennet said:
"She was under-age but there was no staff there to stop her from using it.
"And there was no-one to give advice on using these potentially dangerous machines."
My addition: There was no parent there to give guidance either, twit.
High five!Wouldukindly said:
I'm the palest person I know.
I laughed hard when I found out a friend from college went on a sunbed and peeled for about 2 weeks straight.
But I don't see the big deal with trying to get a tan, just one use of a tan bed increases your risk of getting skin cancer by 50%, can't remember where I read/ saw it.
This reminds me of a story in the local newspaper of some kid going on the sun bed and ended up being burnt so bad she ended up in hospital. Kids these days are stupid and try to be brown as possible. Spray tan = safe.
Saying that, I've never had a tan before...
EDIT: Also, there was a "myth" on Mythbusters that some lass used the sun beds so much in a week before her wedding she microwaved herself..
