A father watched in horror as the bubbling goo from a squishy toy burned through the clothes of his 7-year-old daughter and ripped the skin from her tiny body after a TikTok challenge went tragically wrong.
What started as an innocent experiment turned into a horrific accident for seven-year-old Missouri’s Scarlett Selby, who like many children her age, loved playing with her NeeDoh squishy toy.
The little girl, from a suburb of St. Louis, decided to level up her toy after seeing videos on TikTok of people freezing and microwaving the toy to make it more malleable.
The squishy stress cubes, made by Schylling Toys, comes with a warning that reads, “Do NOT heat, freeze, or microwave, may cause personal injury.”
Despite the warnings, social media users were pushing the limits of the product, sharing clips of them biting, freezing or microwaving the jelly toys that are made of rubber with a polyvinyl alcohol filling.
Explosive
Determined to make her toy a bit more fun, Scarlett placed her squishy in the freezer overnight and then microwaved it for a few seconds the next day.
