Every kid goes through a gross-out phase at one point or another, right? There's always one who'll experiment by eating sand, worms, even dog food. But what about bugs?
Cicadas are currently invading Tennesee in a freak occurrence that happens once every 13 years or so. A three-year-old boy named Lance had been having fun playing with the insects for days, before deciding to pop one in and out of his mouth.
In her wisdom, his mom decided to film him licking the cicada and then posted the video on YouTube. She obviously thought it was hilarious that her curious child "tongued" the bug.
"It made sense to get some footage of it before [the cicadas] disappeared," she said, "as he’ll be 16 the next time the cicadas make their way to Nashville!"
But she probably hadn't counted on Lance and the Cicada going viral, with more than 100,000 page views in just a week. Harmless fun? You decide:
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