BOISE, Idaho – It’s become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare.
This year, the scene straight out of the movie “A Christmas Story” unfolded Tuesday morning in Boise with a boy of about 10. Boise firefighters used a glass of warm water to free the unidentified boy from the metal fence pole.
Fire Capt. Bill Tinsley says the boy’s tongue was bleeding a little, but he was OK and allowed to continue walking to school. Firefighters estimate the boy was 10 years old.
Last year, the unlucky boy was a 10-year-old from Hammond, Ind., especially apt, since the 1983 movie is set in a fictional city based on Hammond.
Apparently, experimenting with frozen flag poles isn’t that unusual, especially this time of year.
The picture above is from the movie “The Christmas Story”.
Thanks Mike F
What. No Eastern European schtick? What HAS happened to Polish jokes?
I did that in gr. 1 on a metal fence/divider thingy. They weren’t smart enough to pour warm water on my tongue but ripped my head backwards till my tongue came unstuck. Sweet Jeezus that hurt for over 2 wks. Never did it again.
saw a kid in grade school stick his tongue to a metal slide on the way down. blood everywhere. ever try to get blood off a metal slide at -20F. we couldn’t use it for days.
Was there a lot of demand to go sliding in -20F temps? You probably wouldn’t find me standing in that line.
it’s Alaska they don’t make us stay in from recess until it hit’s -30. with 6 months of winter you take what you can get. we use to water ski with ice still floating on the lake.