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MadeInDex 📰🌎@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

Teen Girl Chased by 'Cat in the Hat' Figure Amid Sinister TikTok Trend Sweeping North America

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Teen Girl Chased by 'Cat in the Hat' Figure Amid Sinister TikTok Trend Sweeping North America

www.ibtimes.co.uk

MadeInDex 📰🌎@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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A teenager was allegedly pursued by someone wearing a full Cat in the Hat costume in Canada as threatening posts linked to the viral trend prompt arrests and school warnings across North America.
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    Good way to get shot.

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    Oh we’re doing the clown thing again?

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      Yep, that was my initial reaction. Creep Clowns, take 2. Why aren’t there TikTok trends of doing meaningful work to help improve your community?

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        bomesmashing? tide pod challenge?

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      The US has got to be the worst country for pulling this shit.

      Remember when someone tried dressing up as a clown and jump scaring people in Stockton?

      He got pistol whipped, lucky he wasn’t shot. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIvqjznCSPA

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        Stockton of all places. Pistol whipped is less than anyone would expect

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      Well, until one or more of them gets shot.

      It’s like every few years social media forgets that whimsical and fun things are the best way to ‘prank’ strangers and someone temporarily popularizes trying to terrify randos.

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    Anything before or after “TikTok trend” is pretty much universally shit. What a wretched platform.

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    Mike Meyers must be soo hurting for work I guess.

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