We Have Our First Car Accident Caused By The "Bird Box Challenge"
CBS News- A teenage driver in Layton, Utah, crashed her car while wearing a blindfold – a stunt inspired by the Netflix movie “Bird Box”
The blindfolded driver was a 17-year-old girl, and there was another 16-year-old in the car at the time of the crash, Lt. Travis Lyman of the Layton Police Department told CBS News.
The movie inspired internet copycats to take on the “Bird Box challenge,” in which people filmed themselves doing everyday tasks blindfolded. The game is as viral as it is dangerous.
You knew it was only a matter of time before it happened. Some moron doing the Bird Box Challenge while driving and t-boning someone else. I would have bet every dollar in my bank account that this would have happened in Florida first. But a couple of teenagers in Utah being bored out of their skull and hitting some sorry son of a bitch driving to his 3rd job to make ends meet for his 4 wives and 15 kids at home while they tried to act like “That Lady From Bird Box” (no chance they know who Sandra Bullock actually is) isn’t exactly a shocker.
Now the #woke side of me says that the Utah police heard about the Bird Box Challenge a month after the movie came out (which is about when things reach Utah) and made up this entire story by using a picture from a regular car accident and made up a tall tale to stop morons from doing it for real. But then I remembered that we had fucking idiots dumber than Weird Haircut Seth driving off of cliffs and into lakes while playing Pokemon Go because they were trying to catch’em all and Tide telling people to not eat their detergent pods because they had bright colors and looked like Willy Wonka’s freshest new candy. Suddenly the thought of two dumb kids from a flyover state trying a viral sensation they saw on the internet doesn’t seem so farfetched. And if this story is true, I think their punishment should be very simple and the same as the people who got hurt doing those other viral challenges: A suspended license for life so they don’t crash into people with an IQ higher than 60 and they must get neutered so they can never procreate. Firm but fair.
I also think I would rather have a blindfolded millennial drive directly into my human with their then have to experience that horror that Eddie lived through during the Bears defense biggest drive of the season.
One is a painful moment that will take months to recover from, the other is straight up torture that may never leave Eddie whole again. Doubly so when you add in that he got to watch the Double Doink live and again in slow motion instant replay as Bird Box Birdhead Smitty smooched him with a nice wet beak.
