Police departments around the country are reporting an upsurge in kids creating problems for themselves and others as they follow social media challenges.

One of the challenges is not new, but making a comeback. Police in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, west of Allentown, posted about the TikTok “door knock” or “door kick” challenge that “encourages kids and teens to record themselves doing just that; knocking on and/or kicking random doors, usually late at night.”

It’s a knock-off of sorts of a decades-old prank where kids would ring a doorbell and run. This new approach, however, is much more troublesome according to the department. Young people who attempt this door-kicking challenge could “be seriously hurt or even killed by someone who believes, especially in the middle of the night, that their residence is being broken into and ultimately determines there is an imminent threat to life and property.”

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