{"id":197474,"date":"2019-01-13T00:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T05:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=197474"},"modified":"2019-01-13T00:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T05:38:59","slug":"police-driver-crashes-trying-bird-box-blindfold-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/13\/police-driver-crashes-trying-bird-box-blindfold-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Driver crashes trying &#8216;Bird Box&#8217; blindfold challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195731\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/47582118_1952382215070605_7132225994757546058_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195731\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/47582118_1952382215070605_7132225994757546058_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Videos of people trying to do things while blindfolded have attracted widespread attention online, and Netflix tweeted a warning about the challenge last week. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Brx3z4bAPR-\/\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/birdboxmovie\/\">@birdboxmovie\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Police say a Utah teenager crashed into another car when she covered her eyes as part of the so-called \u201cBird Box Challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman said Friday that the 17-year-old drifted into oncoming traffic and hit another car after she pulled a hat over her eyes to emulate \u201cBird Box,\u201d a Sandra Bullock movie on Netflix where characters must be constantly blindfolded to avoid visions that urge them to die.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of people trying to do things while blindfolded have attracted widespread attention online, and Netflix tweeted a warning about the challenge last week.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the Monday crash north of Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Lyman says it should serve as a warning he never thought he&#8217;d have to give: Don&#8217;t drive while blindfolded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Police say a Utah teenager crashed into another car when she covered her eyes as part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}