NEWS: Not Quite Spiderman

CULTURE: Not Quite Spiderman

Children are becoming increasingly stupid. Fire fighters in North Shields, UK, have had to
un-glue a 13-year-old boy from a lamp post.

Radio reports suggest that the boy was trying to climb to the top by applying glue to his hands and pants, thus making him sticky like some kind of superhuman perhaps, and then shimmying up.

I hope that when I have kids... that they are born with a brain.

You know.. there was a family guy episode... recently... where Peter tells brian "Look I made a water slide"

By running the house from the top of the stairs.... yeah...

so he rolls down, and lands at the bottom in extreme pain.

Brian leaves him there... and says.

"I am not calling the hospital cause if I do you wont learn anything."

I plan on being the same way.

if the kid was trying to be a super hero then if he had a S on his chest it would stand for stupid ass

oh come on....when we were kids we all did stupid stuff...the only difference was 'it was part of growing up' and our parents sure as hell didn't call the papers or blame TV...we took the pain, sucked up the embarassement until our next stupid venture.

apophiz said:
Children are becoming increasingly stupid.

Best Intro ever ! ! ! ! !

i was thinking this kid was inventive.

well i think this kid will be highly embarassed what with the whole of the UK media knowing he was a complete tool

I've done some pretty stupid stuff... but at his age I knew what glue was and what it did.

kids are dumb

If the kid were, say, 8, it might be a different story.

But 13?

Yeah, shouldn't he be hazing Harry Potter or something?

I dunno. I think this is quite awesome.

You GO kid. Get your super-powers on!

If he wanted stiickiness powers, he should've checked to make sure the glue was either magic or radioactive. The best way to tell is by sniffing it. If the glue is abnormal in any way, you'll know.

i'll second that

haven't you guys seen 'a christmas story'?

now THAT was dumb. and it didn't even involve glue.

Science is fun

I really hope that he wasn't stuck to the lamppost by bullies who then stole all his possessions.

just wait until we get the one for the kid that douses himself in gasoline and sets himself on fire just because he wanted to be like the human torch in the fantastic four movie

I think that happened before with the show Jackass, and all that kid was imitating was some idiot who lit himself on fire. Talk about setting the bar low.

hehe.. talk about a sticky situation!

sorry, had to slip that one in somewhere

[Edited on Jun 18, 2005 8:53PM]

Teenage boy sets himself on fire, it's shameful and stupid. Talentless television personality sets himself on fire, it's ghastly humor. Buddhist monk sets himself on fire, it's stirring protest. Go figure.

Hey, this kid is the shit. I'd rather my kid do something cool like this and ultimately fail, rather than having my kid stuck to the Xbox or whining about his fucking iPod all day long... this was a 13-year-old after all.

Plus, how many people have stories about jumping off the roof with an umbrella or with a towel as a cape? Or similarly stupid crap like that? Yeah.

Have you never seen "Banana Moron"?

(3 mb WMV. direct link if the one above isn't working for you.)

For some reason this sounds like the voice of experience to me.