Local girl gets tongue stuck to flag pole

[The Straight Story]

Local girl gets tongue stuck to flag pole
No 'sinister triple dog dare'

EAST KINGSTON, N.H. —An East Kingston girl is doing OK after she got her tongue stuck to the flag pole in her front yard.

Maddie Gilmartin, 12, was helping her dad in Thursday's snow storm. On a whim, she decided to touch the flag pole with her tongue and she got stuck.

In this incident, there was no "sinister triple dog dare," just some innocent curiosity.

It took her seconds to realize it was a big mistake.

"It just kind of popped into my head, 'Hey what would happen if I stuck my tongue to a flag pole?'" Maddie Gilmartin said. "At the moment, I was like, it will come right off."

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/local-girl-gets-tongue-stuck-to-flag-pole/-/9848876/23776154/-/wajpwpz/-/index.html

[treestar]

1. Which is why every kid should see "A Christmas Story"

well before their 12th birthday.

[TeeYiYi]

5. I'll bet she's seen it...

...and that was her inspiration. Hopefully her story will go viral so other kids aren't tempted to prove or disprove the Christmas Story flagpole theory.

TYY

[Codeine]

2. While I'm tempted to laugh,

can you imagine how terrifying that would be for a kid? Poor thing.

[Coexist]

3. Growing up in Buffalo,

a couple times when I would have to take my hands out of my mittens to open the screen door (it was aluminum) and my fingers were sweaty from being inside the polyester hand coverings, they would stick to the handle.

Warm water was the only way to get them unstuck without pain.

[HappyMe]

4. I'm sorry but I laughed.

"A Christmas Story" is both entertaining and informative.

[davidn3600]

6. She must have been Triple Dog Dared

[MineralMan]

7. Those who are responsible know their blame!

[legcramp]

8. WCVB Tweeted it out as "breaking news"

Such is the state of our "news" media today.

They later apologized, no word on whether they cried.