Video: Lonestar Cheeseburger Calls Out Mayor, Council in Ice Bucket Challenge

This will get national attention and the best part is they deserve it! Well played Lonestar...well played! I'd provide a recipe, but Lonestar won't give it up....

The "ice water challenge" is among the more popular forms of collective stupidity of the day -- along with swallowing tablespoons of cinnamon and lighting yourself on fire (usually in hopes of impressing fellow dregs of the social media cesspool). Originally intended to raise awareness for the neurodegenerative disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the gimmick consists of drenching one's self with ice water, encouraging 3 others to do the same, and/or donating money to the cause. As with any form of reckless herd-like conventionality, Darwin Award candidates hastily jockey for position. - Four firefighters attempting to pour ice water over a group of students were seriously injured Thursday afternoon at Kentucky's Campbellsville University, when an electrical current from a nearby power line surged through their turntable latter. - In May the body of a 16 year old boy in Chaska Minnesota was recovered after drowning in the 40 degree waters of a local lake. - A Teenage girl in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin shredded her leg on zebra mussel shells while diving into the cold waters of Lake Winnebago. - In Manasha, Wisconsin firefighters were called to resuce a 16 year old girl who jumped into the Fox River and couldn't get out due to her lack of strategic planning for scaling the high sea wall afterwards. - A Michigan man dives head first into Grey Lake, hits his head and ends up paralyzed from the waist down. In true herd fashion, 17 others jumped into the same waters later that night. - In Chicago a teenage boy dies after two of his friends drop a plastic trash can full of cold water on his head from atop a balcony. - Last Saturday Corey Griffin (one of the geniuses who set this wheel of idiocy into motion) dived from a building on a wharf in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts -- killing himself. In addition to the obvious dangers of haphazardly leaping into murky rivers and precarious, unsupervised dives into tumultuous waters, health officials warn that exposure to frigid waters in general is not without it's risks. When exposed to freezing water, a protective reflex is invoked which closes the larynx, slows one's heart rate and impedes breathing. Most people can recover fairly well when body temperature and lung function return to normal, however this type of activity can be deadly for people with underlying (or unknown) coronary disease/heart conditions. Depriving your body of oxygen under these conditions put one at risk for heart attacks or cardiac arrest. Drowning is a risk as well, and doesn't necessarily entail being submerged in deep waters. The abrupt gasp which involuntarily occurs when the body is suddenly subjected to the freezing temperatures of ice water could result in an accidental intake of water into the lungs. All it takes is half a cup to deprive one of proper respiratory function, and many drownings have indeed occurred in moments well after the person in question has been removed from water. I'm not certain that most people who've put themselves in danger, acquired injuries or killed themselves actually learned the first thing about ALS. Like most "viral videos" and trendy ways of displaying what an impressionable, attention-starved moron you are, it's a "notice me" moment. While self-destructive behavior may benefit humanity in the long run, the push to accept these kinds of ventures as noble and worthwhile causes is pure asininity. Want to learn more about ALS? The website "alsa.org" is a great start. They have links, resources, literature and much safer alternatives like walks one can participate in to raise funds for the cause. If the "ice water" trend has raised awareness of any kind, it's that ignorance is contagious -- and probably kills more people than the array of documented contagion and diseases combined.

That's a buzzkill...