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Title: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: Tucker on January 12, 2011, 09:59:03 AM
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/01/12/news/doc4d2da9f171656631999473.txt

Oklahoma boy rescued after tongue gets stuck on pole

AP article.

Hey. I can't blame the kid for not believing everything he sees on the TV. Although stupid, not DUmmy material.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: Eupher on January 12, 2011, 10:12:44 AM
Apparently that re-run wasn't run often enough.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: IassaFTots on January 12, 2011, 10:13:37 AM
Aw, poor little buddy. 
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: bijou on January 12, 2011, 12:11:51 PM
A winter classic, this seems to come round every year!
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Official said rescue crews arrived at the scene on Tuesday morning to find the boy standing on his tip-toes, trying to work his tongue off the frozen pole.

The pole in question was a 'Stop' sign outside Woodward Middle School.

Paramedics eventually freed the youngster after pouring hot water on his tongue.

The eight-year-old revealed after the ordeal he had decided to lick the frozen pole after being dared to by his brother.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/852487-us-boy-rescued-after-tongue-gets-stuck-on-frozen-pole#ixzz1AqWTRDSC
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: thundley4 on January 12, 2011, 12:14:25 PM
Dupe. Someone else beat you to it.  http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,53932.0.html
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: DLR Pyro on January 12, 2011, 12:42:20 PM
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The eight-year-old revealed after the ordeal he had decided to lick the frozen pole after being dared to by his brother.


Was he double or triple dog dared to lick the pole?
(http://www.buckeyepower.com/upload/images/Flicktongueonpoleupclose.jpg)
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: debk on January 13, 2011, 09:17:17 AM
When I was 5 or 6, we were living in Sioux Falls SD. I went down the street to my friend's house to see if she could come out and play in the snow. While I was waiting for them to answer the door, I licked the snow off of the decorative metal grill on the screen door.

Yep, my tongue got stuck. I grabbed it with my little mittened hand, left the outer layer of my tongue, and ran home crying with blood running all down the front of me. My mother, the nurse, took care of me...while my dad told me how stupid I was.  :bawl:
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: Chris_ on January 13, 2011, 09:19:48 AM
It doesn't get that cold around here, but I saw 'A Christmas Story' and was forewarned long before I ever had the urge to lick a metal lightpole.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 13, 2011, 01:07:11 PM
My little sister did something like that while we were waiting for the school bus in Indiana one morning.  She was blowing on the catch to the mailbox trying to thaw it and got just a weeee bit too close, I think it was actually her lip that was stuck.  I don't remember exactly how we got her loose, I do remember helping though.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: thundley4 on January 13, 2011, 01:08:33 PM
I had my hands get stuck to those old metal ice cube trays when I was a kid.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: IassaFTots on January 13, 2011, 01:48:51 PM
I had my hands get stuck to those old metal ice cube trays when I was a kid.

Yep.  I did that.  Ripped em off too.  Didn't know the water trick.   :thatsright:
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: Inga on January 13, 2011, 09:01:38 PM
I always told my son never to try the tongue and pole thing here in Texas in the winter.Do you think he listened,not this one. He did it to the clothes line pole. I was in the house,and heard a yelling. When I came outside and seen him, I died funny. He was crying so I went to get some warm water. I got to say I told you so. He never did it again. But he enticed friends. They only seem to learn from experience.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: Chris_ on January 13, 2011, 09:03:00 PM
I always told my son never to try the tongue and pole thing here in Texas in the winter.Do you think he listened,not this one. He did it to the clothes line pole. I was in the house,and heard a yelling. When I came outside and seen him, I died funny. He was crying so I went to get some warm water. I got to say I told you so. He never did it again. But he enticed friends. They only seem to learn from experience.
My parents used to call that 'learning the hard way'.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: Inga on January 13, 2011, 09:11:54 PM
 :II: You got that right.
Title: Re: Of Boys and Frozen Poles
Post by: littlelamb on January 13, 2011, 11:18:01 PM
Poor kid now there are some adults I would like to push into a frozen pole just so I wouldn't have to hear their voice but that is another topic LOL