With his hair ripped out and one eye shut from his injuries, 14-year-old Skylar Fish told KIRO Monday he had approved the brainless achievement several times afore with his friends. Those times, he and his buds acclimated the band to tie anniversary added to poles, he said.
But on Jan. 16, he accustomed his accompany to blanket him up while he was continuing up, as apparent in surveillance footage of the challenge.
The aqueduct tape, ironically, didn’t anon accompany Fish harm. Instead, he fell while attempting to breach out of it — and hit his arch on a window frame, again burst assimilate concrete, crushing his larboard eye atrium and causing a academician aneurysm, his mother said.
Fish said he doesn’t apperceive if he’ll anytime get his eyes in that eye back.He doesn’t bethink abundant from that day, he said, but the abatement fabricated him feel like he was “hit by a car.”
The Renton boyhood said he’s “lucky to be alive,” and hopes his alarming injuries will argue added humans to not even accede aggravating the claiming at home.
“Teach added kids not to do it,” he said.
“When I anticipate about it, like, I become sad, and again absolutely happy. I'm blessed because I survived it. I about died.”
Authorities did not columnist any accuse for the adverse antic, deeming it an accident.His mother, Sarah Fish, started a $5,000 GoFundMe page for her son's recovery.
"Like a lot of teens, Sky admired to do fun things with his accompany that he didnt consistently like to acquaint me about, for abhorrence of mom not absolution him," she wrote on the page.
"Today, there are so abounding 'challenges' traveling about on amusing medias. Some are harmless, but a lot of of them are absolutely dangerous!"
A YouTube seek for “duct band challenge” yields added than 232,000 videos of humans attempting the act, with a lot of of the clips acquaint aural the accomplished year.
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