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Speaker 1: What happened in Palmerston, North with this young man was

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Speaker 1: obviously an absolute tragedy. We don't know exactly what happened.

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Speaker 1: It was linked to another viral challenge. The sad reality

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Speaker 1: is stuff like this will happen again and again and again,

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Speaker 1: and the campaigners and the professionals will warn about the dangers,

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Speaker 1: and then kids will be kids, and another craze will

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Speaker 1: come along and somebody else will get hurt or die.

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Speaker 1: Ten years ago, remember the planking challenge.

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Speaker 2: Planking turned deadly for one twenty year old Australian man

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Speaker 2: as he fell to his death early Sunday morning trying

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Speaker 2: to plank on a thin balcony railing seven stories high.

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Speaker 2: This is the first known death as a result of planking,

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Speaker 2: but with its rising appeal, police are worried more serious

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Speaker 2: injuries will follow. The question is will this phenomenon catch

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Speaker 2: on big.

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Speaker 1: Here in the States. The next thing to come along

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Speaker 1: was skin art, where young people paint sunscreen on some

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Speaker 1: parts of their bodies and burn the rest in the sun.

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Speaker 3: It only takes one bad sunburn before the age of

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Speaker 3: eighteen to double your risk of melanoma, and if you

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Speaker 3: have more than five sunburns, over your lifetime, you have

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Speaker 3: an eighty percent chance of getting a skin cancer.

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Speaker 1: This American family lost their son to the infamous blackout challenge,

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Speaker 1: where kids choke themselves all their friends for fun. Our son, teens,

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Speaker 1: was fourteen years old and passed away due to one

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Speaker 1: of these social media challenges.

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Speaker 4: Tent was a great kid. He had a lot going

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Speaker 4: for him, many friends, very popular. His friends have been

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Speaker 4: in sharp like everybody else in our family.

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Speaker 1: Since the beginning of time, teenagers, especially boys, have played bullrush,

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Speaker 1: drink to excess, driven cars way too fast. Frontal lobes

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Speaker 1: don't develop properly until the age of twenty five. That's

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Speaker 1: when reason overtakes risk in the brain and your behavior changes.

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Speaker 1: If you ask me honestly if society can ever prevent

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Speaker 1: these tragedies from happening again, I would say, look at

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Speaker 1: the numbers, look at the trends, and look at the

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Speaker 1: social media algorithms. Of course we can't. But more than that,

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Speaker 1: that overwhelming urge when you are young to experiment with danger,

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Speaker 1: to push the boundaries in life, to just goof off

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Speaker 1: with your mates. That urge has existed since the dawn

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Speaker 1: of time and doesn't appear to be going anywhere in

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Speaker 1: a hurry. All we can do, really is, individuals, is

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Speaker 1: offer our sincere condolences to this poor family and hope

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Speaker 1: that others will learn a lesson from his death. For

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