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Moment group of teens crash a stolen car and run off Minnesota highway after 'How to Hotwire' TikTok trend showed users how to steal new Kia and Hyundai models with a single USB cable
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 8, 2022 | Paul Farrell

Posted on 08/08/2022 9:05:49 PM PDT by Morgana

This is the moment four teens in Minnesota crashed a stolen Kia against the median of an interstate before frantically running across traffic in an attempt to avoid arrest.

The incident may be part of a troubling TikTok trend that has promoted and instructed on ways of hotwiring Kia and Hyundai vehicles with as little as a USB cable.

Law enforcement agencies across the country have raised concerns about the trend, which began on TikTok in 2021 courtesy of a Milwaukee based group known as the 'Kia Boyz.'

The thefts generally involve Kia's newer than 2011 and Hyundai's newer than 2015. The cars typically do not have immobilizers and can be accessed through backdoors without setting off alarms.

This most recent incident occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday afternoon along Interstate 35E Northbound.

According to Fox 9, the driver was trying to evade police tire deflation device when he began running up against the wall.

The video shows the car smoking and the four teens, a 14-year-old boy, and three girls ages 15-17, running across the busy highway. All four were eventually arrested by state troopers.

One girl is seen running into a black SUV as the group heads towards the off ramp. Two of the girls suffered injuries and were treated in a local hospital.

St. Paul Police Public Information Officer Mike Ernster told Fox 9 that around 5:30 pm on August 6, police received a call from a Minneapolis rental company who said that a 2021 Kia Forte had been stolen. The GPS indicated that the car was in St. Paul.

A state police helicopter was deployed and quickly located the car in a residential area in the city. Police cruisers went to the area and converged on the Kia.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: hyundai; kia; minneapolis; minnesota; smarterthanyou; tiktok

1 posted on 08/08/2022 9:05:49 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Yup.


2 posted on 08/08/2022 9:07:38 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Morgana

“Teens”


3 posted on 08/08/2022 9:09:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: Morgana

Dang Amish....AGAIN!


4 posted on 08/08/2022 9:18:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Morgana

“The GPS indicated that the car was in St. Paul. “

Is this just for rental cars? How many models will tell the law where you were on Jan 6?


5 posted on 08/08/2022 9:37:55 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: KrisKrinkle

Any gm with OnStar will eat you out just like a cell phone.

Hyundai has blue link that is like OnStar too


6 posted on 08/08/2022 9:43:16 PM PDT by cableguymn
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>> a 14-year-old boy, and three girls ages 15-17

Not that anyone of us in our JD years would ever think of doing this, but if so, there would be NO girls involved — right there is the Darwin award.


7 posted on 08/08/2022 9:48:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: montag813

FAT AZZED AMISH..


8 posted on 08/08/2022 9:54:33 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: cableguymn

OnStar will WHAT??


9 posted on 08/08/2022 9:57:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: Morgana
Is the Daily Mail really paying this Paul Farrell guy to write for them?

The thefts generally involve Kia's newer than 2011 and Hyundai's newer than 2015.

Is a journalism job the adult version of a participation trophy?

10 posted on 08/08/2022 10:00:08 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I saw that too. 😂

And cell phones as well? Mine doesn’t do that. 😏 (To my knowledge…)


11 posted on 08/08/2022 10:02:08 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

rat..

I hate Google


12 posted on 08/08/2022 10:03:59 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Morgana

What was the race of the black people who committed this crime?


13 posted on 08/08/2022 10:11:28 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Morgana

Kia should be held accountable for this. The should be forced to recall everyone of these and fix them so this can’t happen.
Stupidity should come with a price.


14 posted on 08/09/2022 12:36:47 AM PDT by Revel
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To: cableguymn

“Any gm with OnStar will eat you out just like a cell phone.”

Kinky.... is this some new tech that I’m unaware of.


15 posted on 08/09/2022 2:43:25 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Morgana

LMAO at the massive hambeast who is clearly in no shape to run from the cops. Appears to be a fat black girl, she can barely run across the interstate before her body says, “No mo runnin’ fo me!”


16 posted on 08/09/2022 3:03:06 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Drew68

These animals are only bred because our taxes feed them.

“Black leaders” decried the 1996 Welfare Reform because they felt it accused blacks of breeding for cash, they went silent afterwards when it turned out to be true - and their birthrate plummeted.


17 posted on 08/09/2022 4:47:47 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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