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Horrifying moment tourist suffers severe injury after flaming jumping rope ‘barbeques' her neck
A shocking video shows the moment a woman was left with severe burns after a flaming skipping rope got wrapped around her neck at a full moon party.
Karen Liseth, 22, went on a three-month trip to Thailand, and planned to go on to Bali, when she attended a celebration at a beach on the second week of the vacation.
After a few drinks, she decided to 'do something crazy' - and asked her partner, Abed, now 29, to film her skipping with a flaming jump rope.
Karen Liseth, 22, was left with severe burns after a flaming skipping rope got wrapped around her neck at a full moon party
Everything was going to plan - until she tried to duck back out of the rope and it wrapped around her neck.
Onlookers gasped in shock as the rope 'barbecued her' - leaving her with a sore and blackened neck.
The business developer, from London, England, said she 'counts her blessings' the injury wasn't worse, because the rope could have hit her eyes or set her hair on fire.
Karen said: 'I'd had a few drinks at the party and thought, "Why not do something crazy?"
'But then I completely miscalculated how to leave, and ran the other way - with the rope wrapping around my neck.
'I think I just felt adrenaline in the moment and laughed it off. I even had a few shots to help with the pain after!'
Karen and her partner were visiting the Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan when they attended the party.
She decided to be daring and skip with the rope - and asked Abed to film it.
Karen added: 'I was in shock with the adrenaline at the time.
'After, my partner sat me down to check I was okay - that was when I realized it was painful and I started to cry.'
The couple were stuck on the island until the morning - and Karen, then 18, said she woke up in pain.
But due to how remote the area was, they crossed their fingers it would heal by itself and continued their trip.
Karen said: 'I woke up and I couldn't really move my neck.
'I called my mom and told her what happened - she was like: "What the f***, Karen?" She was so concerned.
'It was a pain to shower and even to have my hair sat on my neck - I had to have my hair up for a few days because of the stinging.
'But I did carry on going in the sea and showering.
'It scabbed over, then the scabs came off a few times - after about two weeks it had healed.'
Now fully healed, it has hardly even scarred - and there is virtually no evidence of the injury.
Karen said she struggled to watch the video in the weeks after the injury in June 2022, but now can watch it with ease.
She added: 'It was a horror, but it didn't ruin the vacation. That video describes my crazy personality really - it's a cool story to tell.
'This is a perfect example of what not to do when you've had a few drinks - I don't drink like that any more!
'But I was young - you do silly things.'
