"He said one incident was in February when the victim was a father with his three children, wife, and other loved ones in the boat - with his death being recorded."
Okay. It was recorded, but no video attached to the story. No name. And...FEBRUARY? Look, it's gets hot in Alabama, but there are very few people jumping off boats in February because it's freakin cold! There was a video of some people jumping off a boat. In North Carolina. In the summer. On a boat not really going all that fast. I've had water skiing mishaps going faster than that.
This is what I found on a search of one of the people named in the story:
"Teen Jacob Stevens from Ohio took more than a dozen pills of Benadryl when participating in a TikTok challenge."
I guess this kid dies regularly from multiple TikTok challenges.
Never believe anything you read in the press.
Never believe anything you read anywhere unless you have confidence in the source.
Tik Tok is generating a lot of contenders for the Darwin Award.
Mass Tik Tokking. We need some friggin’ common sense legislation here. Enough is enough. Tik Tok violence has got to stop!
It's rough out there. More like a truth-test challenge.
"You can't believe a word that people say" ~ Willie Nelson (still not dead)
Alabama in better days:
reminds me of Randalls cousin who broke his neck trying to orally service himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFOzgFyE8QA
I believe there are many, many people who desperately want to be “social media influencers” and will do most anything for it.
how about tik tok challenges do things like “Solve as many math problems as possible in 20 minutes” instead?
“Here, hold ma beer. I’m gonna be on Tick Tock”.
Here are a few new creative tick tock challenges for people that do not win prizes, here’s a chance at winning a Darwin Award. Remember you can’t fix stupid. Feel free to add to the list.
Jump out of a 30 story building or higher.
Eat a scorpion.
Eat a black widow spider.
Sleep with some black bomba snakes.
Swim across a lake full of alligators.
Sky dive without a parachute.
In China, Tik Tok promotes videos that show Chinese people being good citizens, tutoring the young, assisting the elderly, offering math or cooking or gardening lessons, cleaning up the neighborhood, and doing other positive things.
In the West, Tik Tok promotes videos featuring outraged blacks, crazy trannies, slutty women, and stupid challenges.
(Although the ADL has successfully lobbied China to deplatform "hate" from Tik Tok.
But overall, Chinese Tik Tok incentivizes good behavior. Western Tik Tok incentivizes crazy, violent, slutty, and self-destructive behavior (but no "hate").
Why hasn’t the Chinese communist app Tik-Tok been banned in the US? Not that that would stop people from being fatally stupid...
I’m a supporter of suicide by challenge. Get these people out of the way before they can do nay real harm.
Darwin was right.
The Daily Mail is fun, but it's not to be taken seriously.
Darwin likes TikTok.
Capt. Jim Dennis with the Childersburg Rescue Squad said these deaths are people of all ages.
“The four that we responded to when they jumped out of the boat, they literally broke their neck and, you know, basically an instant death,” Dennis said.
Also
Last six months we have had four drownings that were easily avoidable. They were doing a TikTok challenge. It’s where you get in a boat going at a high rate of speed, you jump off the side of the boat, don’t dive, you’re jumping off feet first and you just kinda lean into the water,” said Cpt. Jim Dennis with the Childersburg Rescue Squad.
I am not used to UK Daily Mail pushing fake news. They seem pretty reliable.
Video from story on Channel 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oAi_fFCGEg
The article said there were other TT challenges leading to deaths - further down in the article. That’s why the Benadryl story was brought up.
I believe people are doing this. Perhaps it’s not a huge thing. But, they are covering deaths from this ‘dare’.
