Everybody-needs-a-hobby department

Evidently, the loonier middle-schoolers around the country have taken-up burning images into their skin using ice and table salt.

Here’s how it works: Participants wet their skin, cover it with table salt, and then press an ice pack over the salt to cause intense burning. In this case, the boy did it for 20 minutes… this was the result:

It’s not much different than those nitwit Filipinos who hang themselves on crosses every Easter, I suppose, but — seriously — is it not obvious that there is some sort of psychological dysfunction at work?