Posted on 03/20/2022 2:09:13 PM PDT by Morgana
Cops have warned against the latest TikTok challenge which sees pranksters shoot at unsuspecting victims suing gel pellet gunss.
The craze - dubbed the Orbeez challenge, after the brand of gel gun generally used - has caused injuries, and led to criminal charges.
In one video captured by a Ring surveillance camera, a mother in Florida is seen pushing her toddler's stroller when a car drives behind her driveway. Shots ring out.
'Are you f****** kidding?' she asks. Police did not say whether the mother or her child were injured.
In Peachtree City, Georgia, police released photos of a child with a bloody nose and welts on his torso after he was allegedly shot at by teens who had 'modified' the beads to make them more painful.
'This child was uninvolved riding his bicycle on the path when he was assaulted by a group of teens riding by shooting these weapons at him,' police said on Facebook. 'The police department will be pursuing criminal charges on all persons caught discharging these weapons at other persons on city property.'
Meanwhile, Canadian toymaker Spin Master is currently marketing a play set of 2,000 beads under the name 'Orbeez Challenge.' The company does not make the toy guns used by those who participate in the 'challenge.'
As of Sunday afternoon, videos with the hashtag #OrbeezChallenge have garnered nearly 153 million views on TikTok.
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How long until someone shoots back with a real one?
I never heard of those before. Looks like fun. $50 from Amazon.
If someone shoots and kills the attacker it is 100% fully justified. Calling it a “game” doesn’t change anything. It’s assault with a deadly weapon and deadly force is justified. Doesn’t matter if it was a teen. Doesn’t matter if the victim discovers that the weapon was a “toy.”
Yep.
Practical jokes can sometimes lead to understandable tragedy.
Gel blasters?
I remember reading about those a year or two ago, and I guess they’re big in Australia because I believe their laws regarding things like airsoft guns are a bit draconian, like their gun laws. Over the past six months or so I’ve been seeing gel blasters on shelves in Dunham’s sporting goods stores, or maybe Walmart, or Cabelas.
“How long until someone shoots back with a real one?”
not long ...
I don’t know. The one I saw did not look like a gun though.
Your defense would have to be you thought he was an alien. Not sure how that would go... untested legal strategy I think.
This sounds like virtual reality lite called Tic Toc ginning up violent interactions in the meatspace (the real world)
My grandson has one and it’s pretty cool. You soak tiny beads in water which then swell up. These are loaded into a clear plastic hand grenade sized bottle. The bottle is then screwed into the top of what resembles a machine pistol. The toy then fires the water pellets rapid fire till it jams or the pellets are gone, pretty cool. The teens probably put the swollen pellets into a freezer, makes the pellets hurt on impact .
“Now they are modifying the beads to be more painful,’ the police department wrote on Facebook. ‘As you can see from the attached photos from an incident [Monday] on the cart path, these can be very painful and can cause permanent injury.” That might make self-defense a little more justified. Who knows?
A concealed-carrying victim of this prank might think he was under fire and respond. That would probably hold up.
You’ll shoot your eye out!
Hilarity ensued.
He got dead, when the victim shot him.
Neither have I, but sounds like Englishese for “paintball”.
Teens who attempt the TikTok challenge are essentially asking to become Darwin award winners.
Given the idea of “ghost guns” being assembled individualistically, including with additive manufacturing (or whatever term they use now for rapid prototype), one could argue that it could’ve been seen as a “real” firearm.
Call it the “Tick Tock Game”. Once you shoot, the clock starts ticking. Sounds pretty risky to me.
And then be called racist for it too. It’ll happen. Just wait
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