Just goes to show you how bad peer pressure can be. Even if it's indirect.

I'm sure, just like everyone else with these other challenges.. This boy thought it would make him look cool or that he would be some little badass.

The fuck is wrong with people?

I think schools should be required to have basic life safety classes. The most common thing to choke to death on ... toothpicks. Half of people killed by trains walked or drove around lowered barriers. Half of drownings are because people deliberately drove cars into flood waters crossing roads. There are literally countless dumb ways to die, and parents are by no means guaranteed to know them or teach their kids. And yes, swallowing those little hi powered magnets is a really bad idea.

...And now he's a celebrity...lesson learned?

The article says, "...as humans continue to prove that the concept of evolution may, in fact, be false". Realize (as they evidently don't) that evolution doesn't factor into it if 'mum' calls the doctor to save Freddie's life. Without surgery, he would have died. Think of it as a shot of chlorine for the shallow end of the gene pool.