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In today’s digital age, in order to get views, likes and going viral, many such dangerous and strange trends are going on on social media, which are proving fatal especially for children. One such heart-wrenching and horrifying case has come to light from Australia. Here, a 10 year old innocent girl heated her ‘squishy toy’ (gel-filled toy by hand) in the kitchen microwave after watching a video on the internet.
Whatever happened next has shocked parents all over the world. As soon as the toy was taken out of the microwave, it suddenly exploded like a powerful bomb and the boiling poisonous chemical inside it fell directly on the girl’s face, causing her skin to melt on the spot.
What is this ‘Squishy Toy Challenge’ and how did the game start?
According to a detailed report published in the British media website ‘Mirror’, this horrifying incident took place in Australia’s famous coastal city ‘Gold Coast’. A 10-year-old girl named Violet Zerbst, living here, had seen some viral videos on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. In these videos, it was allegedly being claimed that if a gel-filled rubber squishy toy is kept inside the microwave and heated for a while, it becomes softer, stretchier and more fun to play with than before.
Innocent Violet also thought of trying this internet trick herself while playing. Avoiding his mother’s sight, he placed the toy inside the microwave and set a timer for about 30 seconds and turned it on.
As soon as the press was pressed, there was a terrible explosion, the whole house echoed with screams.
As soon as the microwave time was up, Violet took out the toy. She wanted to check whether the toy was really as soft as it was shown in the video; So he brought it close to his face and pressed it hard with both hands. As soon as it was pressed, due to excessive pressure, the toy burst with a terrible bang.
As soon as the toy exploded, the boiling chemical liquid filled inside it fell directly on Violet’s eyes, face and mouth. The innocent girl started screaming badly due to unbearable pain. Hearing Violet’s horrified scream, her mother immediately came running and took her to the bathroom and started pouring cold water on her face, while the father, without wasting any time, immediately called an ambulance.
“I felt like my skin was melting and going inside my mouth.”
Violet, who was fighting for her life on the hospital bed, recalled this horrific accident and said that the pain was so terrible that it cannot be described. He told, “I could clearly feel that the skin on my face was completely melting due to the boiling chemical and going inside my mouth. I was constantly trying to spit it out out of fear.”
Violet’s father Jody told that he was comfortably watching a football match at home on Sunday morning and in the blink of an eye such a big accident happened to his laughing daughter. The girl’s screams were so terrifying that the entire family was shocked.
Long treatment in the hospital, even the doctors were surprised
Violet was immediately taken to the burn ward of ‘Gold Coast Hospital University’ in critical condition, where a special team of doctors gave her intensive treatment for about a week. The most surprising thing was that according to the doctors of the hospital, within the same week, they were treating another similar girl, who had reached the hospital with severe burns due to the same ‘squishy toy microwave challenge’. It is clear from this that children are blindly copying the fake things shown on the internet without any understanding.
A similar painful case has happened in America too
This is not the first or only incident that has happened to a child. A few months ago, a similar incident happened with a 9-year-old child named Caleb Chabola in the Illinois state of America. Caleb had also heard about this trend from his friends and put his toy in the microwave. When the toy exploded, Caleb’s right face was completely scorched and melted and he suffered second-degree burns, which resulted in him spending several weeks in the ICU.
Big warning for parents: Digital threat is increasing inside the home
These strange challenges, running without any filter on platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, have become an invisible enemy for today’s children. Tech and health experts say that the liquid, gel or synthetic chemical filled inside these rubber and plastic toys cannot withstand the electromagnetic heat and radiation of the microwave at all. Due to closure, huge pressure of gas builds up inside it and it explodes like a pressure cooker.
In such a situation, this incident is a serious warning for all the parents of the country and the world. Parents need to be very cautious about what their child is watching on his smartphone when alone, what is his search history and what experiments he is doing alone in a closed room or kitchen. It has now become very important to make children aware of these hidden and dangerous dangers of the internet.