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Related: About this forumPolice: Driver crashes trying 'Bird Box' blindfold challenge
Source: Associated Press
Police: Driver crashes trying Bird Box blindfold challenge
January 11, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Police say a Utah teenager crashed into another car when she covered her eyes as part of the so-called Bird Box Challenge.
Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman said Friday that the 17-year-old drifted into oncoming traffic and hit another car after she pulled a hat over her eyes to emulate Bird Box, a Sandra Bullock movie on Netflix where characters must be constantly blindfolded to avoid visions that urge them to die.
Videos of people trying to do things while blindfolded have attracted widespread attention online, and Netflix tweeted a warning about the challenge last week.
No one was hurt in the Monday crash north of Salt Lake City.
Lyman says it should serve as a warning he never thought hed have to give: Dont drive while blindfolded.
January 11, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Police say a Utah teenager crashed into another car when she covered her eyes as part of the so-called Bird Box Challenge.
Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman said Friday that the 17-year-old drifted into oncoming traffic and hit another car after she pulled a hat over her eyes to emulate Bird Box, a Sandra Bullock movie on Netflix where characters must be constantly blindfolded to avoid visions that urge them to die.
Videos of people trying to do things while blindfolded have attracted widespread attention online, and Netflix tweeted a warning about the challenge last week.
No one was hurt in the Monday crash north of Salt Lake City.
Lyman says it should serve as a warning he never thought hed have to give: Dont drive while blindfolded.
https://apnews.com/0e72ccc7ef4a4f91a5bbd25b22818733
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Police: Driver crashes trying 'Bird Box' blindfold challenge (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2019
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Pobeka
(4,999 posts)1. This is completely insane. n/t
JDC
(10,545 posts)2. She must have not paid attention to the movie.
They drove w/o blindfolds, using only the GPS and the car's front and rear sensors...painted windows. And very, very slowly. W/o any other drivers on the road.
And it was The MOVIES. Not real life. Idiots abound.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)3. The movie scenario was at least plausible
A late model SUV with dashboard GPS and the various parking sensors arrayed around the front and back of the vehicle.
This is just stupid.
marble falls
(62,672 posts)4. Shallow gene pool?