You can't make this stuff up, for reals, and it's probably the internet's fault, for reals. Teenagers have always taken stupid risks for silly reasons. I mean, I know I did. Giving them an audience on the internet just drives that behavior, and leads to increasingly strange attempts to one-up themselves.
Remember the cinnamon challenge? And then the Tide Pod challenge? Like, who the heck thinks eating detergent is ever a great plan?
Well, there's a group of tens out there who have taken it a step further, but it wasn't for an internet audience.