Dearborn — They may be toys, but Dearborn police aren’t playing when they warn kids not to use toy guns to shoot at people as part of a TikTok challenge.
Officials said they have responded in recent weeks to numerous incidents of people being shot at random by toy guns that fire balls made of water-absoring gel — some people were injured. The balls are called Orbeez.
Police said they’ve arrested one teen who is expected to face assault charges in one such incident.
“Once again we find ourselves dealing with a dangerous trend on social media that has influenced our young people to make dangerous choices that can have lifetime consequences,” Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin said in a statement. “I encourage parents to talk to their kids about what they see on social media and to pay attention to the next inevitable dangerous trend that is sure to arise.”
Investigators said they believe shooters in the incidents are kids participating in a so-called “Orbeez Challenge” and posting them on the TikTok video-sharing app. In the challenge, TikTok users film themselves loading Orbeez balls into plastic guns, driving by people and shooting people at random.
Shahin said his department has a zero-tolerance policy on such TikTok challenges that endanger the public.
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Tik-Tok needs to strike 12 and disintegrate.
CHARGE ticktok with being ACCESSORIES TO EVER VIOLENT crime committed BY IT LETTING THESE things go on its site..
My wife’s sister in Ukraine said some fool posted a picture of where Ukrainian soldiers were stationed, in western Ukraine and within 2 hours the Russians bombed it and killed 40 soldiers. Is Tic Toc not owned by the Chinese?
PITY THE ukrainians don’t go AFTER THAT woman, for “SPILLING SECRETS” that led to men being killed!
Let it known now; teens now days are very naive and easily influenced because they have never learned to think for themselves. These are what the future leaders look like – those who complain that they can’t see the forest because of the trees.
We can thank the treasonous, demonic, Democrat Party for brainwashing our children with insanity in schools.
2 + 2 is not 4 if you feel that it is 7, in your reality if you feel it is 7, than it is 7.
You are not a boy, if you feel that you are a girl. God did not make you a male or female, you are whatever you feel.
These treasonous, demonic, Democrat Party fools are teaching our children that whatever they feel, is reality.
This treasonous, dishonest, destructive, corrupt, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s and humanity’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!