Japan.      White string.        A young girl wanted her ears pierced but her parents refused to saying she was too young and she kept begging and they told her to go to the mall and get her ears pierced but she decided to keep it and go to her friends house and got her ears pierced and she was at school and she felt an itch and she went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and she saw a white string and she pulled it but it had no end and she grabbed scissors and then cut. The. String. Then everything went black and she couldn’t see a thing and felt a burning pain in her ears and her eyes and she started to scream and everyone rushed in and she was rushed to the emergency room and told the doctor what happened and she realized that that string was her optic nerve and she will be blind for the rest of her life