A 14-year-old Brazilian boy died after injecting himself with butterfly remains — with police investigating whether it was part of a twisted online challenge, according to a report.
Davi Nunes Moreira started to vomit and then developed a limp after mixing a dead butterfly in water and injecting the liquid into his leg, according to the DailyMail.
The teen told his dad he hurt himself while playing — but then confessed what really happened when he continued growing sicker and was admitted to a hospital in Planalto, the report said.
His dad also found the syringe his son had used hidden under the boy’s pillow, according to the report.
Davi was rushed to another hospital in Vitoria de Conquista, the state of Bahia’s third-largest city, on Wednesday, but succumbed to his injuries.
The mysterious death — linked to possible toxins in the butterfly mix that caused his body to shut down as he went into septic shock — is making headlines across Brazil.
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However, authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the boy was participating in an unusual social media craze that proved fatal, the report said.
after mixing a dead butterfly in water and injecting the liquid into his leg
Let’s zoom in on this one a little bit:
…mixing a dead butterfly in water and injecting it…
A bit more and slightly cropped:
…water and injecting it
Now let’s sort for a conclusion:
…injecting water
THERE WE GO.
This sounds like someone asked ChatGPT to come up with a headline to scare anxious moms.
“BILLY, ARE YOU INJECTING YOURSELF WITH DEAD BUTTERFLY REMAINS??? IS THIS WHY YOU DROPPED OUT OF MARCHING BAND—TO CHASE THE MONARCH DRAGON WITH YOUR XBOX FRIENDS?!?!?”
“OH DARYL, I THINK OUR LITTLE BILLY IS FREEBASING BLUE MORPHOS AFTER SCHOOL AND IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE HE IS TURNING TRICKS ON THE STREET TO BLAST HIS SKAGS ON BANANA SLUGS LACED WITH POWDERED MEXICAN EARWIG DUST?!?!?”
“ITS ALL MY FAULT, I NEVER SHOULD HAVE LET HIM WATCH ANT-MAN!”
“CABBAGE WHITES TURNED MY SON INTO A CABBAGE”
“Dead butterfly remains”
That’s like saying someone was killed to death. You can’t have one without the other. Remains already says it’s dead.
I’m always torn as to what to think when I read stories like this. I’m all for stupid people removing themselves from the gene pool, but at what age does it become suitable to declare a Darwin Award as opposed to a tragedy involving a kid too young to know better?
I learned from high school biology class around that age that injecting random shit into your blood isn’t a good idea when I asked “what would happen if you just injected air in someone” and got the answer “they would die from an embolism.”
I mean, I was 14 once, and I have 0 butterflies in my bloodstream. I’d say that should be old enough to know better…
My personal opinion is that a 14 year old should know not to inject things into their veins because it’s dangerous.
I love how people are kinda tip toeing around if this should be considered a Darwin award or not.
We all know if they were 18+ we would be shitting on them for being fucking idiots.
I think them being 14 and doing something like this falls almost entirely on their parents. Like 10% the kid and 90% the parents for not teaching their child the critical thinking required not to do stupid shit like injecting random insects into their leg.
Honestly, this feels like one of these things you can’t even teach someone. Even at 14 years old, I never would have injected something into myself. I’d know only doctors or trained medical personnel should do that unless it was an epi pen.
I’m sorry, but there is so much confusion and chaos hitting this current generation of both parents and their children, that needing to have the “don’t inject yourself with butterfly remains” talk is not something many people are thinking about.
If you kill your kid, or raise them so stupid they kill themselves, and I guess if they’re your only kid, then it still is a Darwin award for the parents yeah?
TBF, how many parents would it ever even enter their minds that anyone would do something like that and need to be warned not to? “Son, it’s time we talked about the birds and the bees, oh and also the butterflies–don’t ever inject those.”
It’s not really that specific thing, but more the lack of critical thinking and safety that a 14 year old should have. They failed to raise a child with the brainpower to know why they shouldnt do something like that.
My parents left me home alone at 12. I was expected to cook food and take care of myself. I could chop wood and light the fire.
I could have more understanding if this kid was like 10, but by 14 you should already know not to inject yourself with random shit.
The boy kept the syringe under his pillow? This story reads like an urban legend
Back in my day it was smoking banana peels or drinking ground nutmeg in milk (no don’t bother trying) and all I got was some unpleasant burps.
Now it’s the torch your dick in kerosine challenge?
We used to smoke cinnamon sticks. Good times.
That sounds unpleasant but at least whatever you cough up will taste nice.
Well, it tasted of cinnamon, at least.
That’s Malcolm x tea.
Helps with withdrawals
I wouldn’t have been able to gain access to a syringe at that age
Syringes I could get, I used them all the time for applying glue. It’s needles that weren’t easy to come by.
You can just buy them online
I bought like 400 injection needles the other day.
I’m not sure you could buy them online when I was 14.
Well it’s not the 1900s anymore old man
And how’s that going for ya?
Not great honestly…
But at least I have injection needles!
You could buy them from mail order catalogues back then. Just sayin’.
I didn’t have a credit card until I was 23
Lot of places out side of the US let you pay in cash on pickup
I didn’t realize butterflies contained toxins. I thought you could eat most bugs
Eating and directly injecting in your bloodstream are not the same thing
I inject bread and am never hungy.
They did say toxins in the butterfly mix and I think it is unlikely that a 14yo would be grabbing distilled or RO water for his secret experiment. Not saying it wasn’t something to do with the butterfly, but the water alone may have been enough.
You’re right, iirc tap water does contain bacteria, except that it’s bacteria our stomach has no trouble killing
Stomach yes, but that is an inhospitable environment, directly into the blood stream or even into the subcutaneous tissue and muscles, probably a very good way to get sepsis.
They can do depending on what they eat - the article mentions that one possible suspect data milkweed. This isn’t uncommon - a lot of daytime moths, like the Cinnabar and 5 Spot Burnett, eat ragwort almost exclusively which is so hepatotoxic that you have to clear it away from field edges if you have horses. It is a good tactic as it makes them unpleasant to eat and their black and red markings are clear danger warnings.
Yes and monarch butterflies eat milkweed which makes them toxic to eat. I think a lot of butterflies’ vibrant coloured markings are honest warning signals.
