Picket Fence Post

I know, it’s a tad early for April Fools, but this is no joke . . .

A pair of savvy intellectuals, otherwise known as two fourth graders, decided to test the scene from A Christmas Story, the one where Flick puts his tongue on a metal pole on a snowy, December Indiana afternoon.

One child dared the other to try it.
And, wouldn’t ya know it, when the 10-year-old licked the pole, his tongue got stuck. However, unlike in the film, in this case, the boy removed the tongue from the pole by himself “and walked, tongue bleeding, with his friend into Shortstops Bar & Grill where workers gave him a clean towel to help staunch the bleeding . . . A cook comforted the child until paramedics and the boy’s parents arrived,” the Chicago Tribune reported.

The Tribune reporter contacted 40-year-old actor Scott Schwartz, who played Flick in the movie, who said, “Didn’t he see the movie? Did he not see the pain involved?”

The United Press International quoted a police officer who was on the scene as saying, “Remember what happened to Flick.” 

Image credit: Babble (where I first saw this story).