# Everett MA boys Eat Dry Ice **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476 "2010-05-06T03:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/1 "2010-05-06T03:38:26Z")
In more stupid news from New England, a couple of kids in Everett dared each other to eat dry ice from their science experiment. They were rushed to Children’s Hospital in Boston, and are now fine. but _They Freakin’ Ate Dry Ice!!_ > **[CBS Boston - Breaking News, Sports, Weather, I-Team Investigations](https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/)** > > Latest breaking news from WBZ-TV CBS Boston. [http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/ingesting-dry-ice-sends-three-students-to-hospital-20100505](http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/ingesting-dry-ice-sends-three-students-to-hospital-20100505) They dared each other to do it. I’ll bet kids in Japan don’t do this. or Norway. Or even in New Hampshire, where they keep mummified babies for a century. Pepper Mill, who spent the day substitute teaching, is not surprised. She reports that the kids in her class didn’t know that the Mormons are headquartered in Salt Lake City. But at least they weren’t daring each other to eat dry ice. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/2 "2010-05-06T03:41:02Z")
Not to sound totally ignorant, but I didn’t know dry ice was all that dangerous. I wouldn’t eat it just because it seems pointless–had no idea it could kill you. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/3 "2010-05-06T03:43:37Z")
Man, it’s a middle school. I refuse to be surprised at what middle school boys will do on a dare. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/4 "2010-05-06T04:15:05Z")
Any reports on what it tastes like? Chicken? And yeah, middle school boys and a belly full of CO2? Belch contest!!! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/5 "2010-05-06T04:40:56Z")
Coulda been worse: Unsubstantiated Darwin Award [story](http://www.darwinawards.com/personal/personal2000-25.html) about drinking liquid nitrogen. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/6 "2010-05-06T04:42:56Z")
I hate to admit it, but I’m not even entirely sure what dry-ice is. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered any. Therefore, I cannot see it as totally inconceivable that I would not eat some on a dare, if it looks fairly harmless. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/7 "2010-05-06T04:43:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In more stupid news from New England, a couple of kids in Everett dared each other to eat dry ice from their science experiment. Was this part of a school experiment, and if so, shouldn’t there have been a science teacher nearby pointing and saying “don’t eat that”? > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Not to sound totally ignorant, but I didn’t know dry ice was all that dangerous. I wouldn’t eat it just because it seems pointless–had no idea it could kill you. I don’t know about eating it, but don’t ever put it in a sealed container. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/8 "2010-05-06T04:47:33Z")
I wouldn’t think it would hurt you–anyway, no worse than freezing your tongue to a metal pole in the winter. I used to work at a bar where they served a couple of drinks with dry ice in them. They were quite impressive on their way out to the customers. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/9 "2010-05-06T04:51:13Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I wouldn’t think it would hurt you–anyway, no worse than freezing your tongue to a metal pole in the winter. Except that it’s about a hundred degrees colder (depending on how cold said metal pole is). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/10 "2010-05-06T04:53:35Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I wouldn’t think it would hurt you–anyway, no worse than freezing your tongue to a metal pole in the winter. > > I used to work at a bar where they served a couple of drinks with dry ice in them. They were quite impressive on their way out to the customers. More like freezing your esophagus and stomach to a pole… ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/11 "2010-05-06T06:41:49Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Not to sound totally ignorant, but I didn’t know dry ice was all that dangerous. I wouldn’t eat it just because it seems pointless–had no idea it could kill you. A block of dry ice has a surface temperature of -109.3 degrees F. Oh yea that’s not a good thing to have touching your mucous membranes. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/12 "2010-05-06T07:28:40Z")
How the hell did the Mormons get into this story? Do they freeze their sacred underwear with dry ice? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/13 "2010-05-06T08:18:56Z")
> [@Captain\_C](#): > > I hate to admit it, but I’m not even entirely sure what dry-ice is. It’s frozen Carbon Dioxide - instead of melting to a liquid, it sublimates directly to CO2 gas (under everyday conditions). It looks like water ice, but is sufficiently colder as to be able to cause frostbite/ice burns on contact with skin. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/14 "2010-05-06T08:25:40Z")
Won’t it crack your teeth as well? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/15 "2010-05-06T08:32:17Z")
When I first read the thread title, I thought that the kid climbing Mt Everest had gotten desperate enough to start eating ice. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/16 "2010-05-06T08:44:07Z")
The thing _I_ find completely baffling is the whole concept of doing something incredibly stupid and dangerous on a freakin’ _dare_. What the hell? Someone _tells_ you to do it, and you do it? FOR NO REWARD?? Anyone tried to pull that crap with me, I would’ve demanded one of two things: 1. You first, or 2. Put up cash, and keep putting up until I like what I see. No pay, no play, wimp! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/17 "2010-05-06T09:47:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > They dared each other to do it. I’ll bet kids in Japan don’t do this. or Norway. Or even in New Hampshire, where they keep mummified babies for a century. They might in [Cambodia](http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-07.html). > [@](#): > > Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard. > > He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror. Speaking of dumb things done on a dare; that’s one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/18 "2010-05-06T09:54:22Z")
Yeah, I can’t quite grasp the mindset either - like that guy who chainsawed off his own head during dare-like ‘manly games’ - was he thinking “I can’t wait to see the look on the faces of the guys at the bar, when I tell them about the time I cut off my own head!”? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/19 "2010-05-06T10:38:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > They dared each other to do it. I’ll bet kids in Japan don’t do this. or Norway. Or even in New Hampshire, where they keep mummified babies for a century. A person is smart. People are dumb. People all over the world do stupid shit. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476/20 "2010-05-06T10:49:34Z")
My husband accidentally swallowed a bit of dry ice once. He was in college at a party where they thought it’d be cool to have dry ice in the alcoholic punch, but they only had small pieces of it, not big blocks. We think that one piece in his drink got coated in enough regular ice produced from the punch’s liquids - must not have had enough booze in it - that it had a core of dry ice inside normal, and his drink wasn’t “smoking”. So he swallowed it, not knowing that the punch didn’t have regular ice cubes as well. He didn’t drink very much, so he was shocked when he started violently vomiting and then dry-heaving. He complained of some stomach pain after but didn’t get himself checked out, figuring it was just a weird post-drinking experience. We figured out much later it was probably due to the solid CO2 rapidly expanding into a gas. It could have also been the cause of a scar noticed in his stomach when a few years later he developed an ulcer and had his stomach scoped. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everett-ma-boys-eat-dry-ice/538476.md?page=2)