Saturday July 26th, 2008 / 2 responses

Asphalt shower proves deadly for Canadian teen

A 15-year-old boy is dead after an accident that left him in a state not unlike that of the Terror Dogs at the end of Ghostbusters and has many questioning why he thought taking a shower in hot asphalt was a good idea in the first place.

The boy died at a Manitoba construction site when a truck dumped too much asphalt and covered him. Nearby witnesses heard the teen's screams as the substance burned him alive - and the awful silence when he became buried by the suffocating weight of the asphalt, only a tuft of his hair still sticking through the steaming mountain of concrete.

We assume the boy saw something on Oprah that prompted him to seek out an asphalt shower - maybe a beauty expert touting the rejuvenating exfoliation properties of asphalt -  or an author who claims to have survived an asphalt attack and since learned to forgive.

Or maybe this is all David Blaine's fault and the teen had dreams of becoming a monotone, self-important attention-whore who endures pointless self-inflicted challenges for no discernable reason while mumbling incoherently about Native Americans and Buddhism.

Whatever the case, we're sure there's someone to sue and some money to be made.

Sources: The Canadian Press

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