For some reason, ever since being unleashed on the world TikTok has been the place for dangerous social media challenges to flourish.
The latest ill-advised TikTok challenge to cause catastrophic injuries is the boat jumping challenge which has left at least four people dead.
This particular TikTok challenge involves jumping into the water from the back of a boat traveling at a high rate of speed.
“I think people, if they’re being filmed on camera, I think they’re more likely to do something stupid because they want to show off in front of their friends for social media,” Cpt. Jim Dennis, with the Childersburg Rescue Squad, told WPDE News.
Dennis added, “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.”
He says people jumping from these boats they end up breaking their necks when they hit the water.
“The four people that we responded to when they jumped off of the boat, they literally broke their neck and, you know, basically an instant death,” he told TODAY.
Dennis said all of the people who died in his area trying the stunt were men.
One of the men was a father with his three children and wife on the boat.
“Unfortunately, she recorded his death,” Dennis said.
As one avid boater who knows what it feels like to hit the water at high speeds after growing up skiing, told WPDE News, “When you hit the water, it’s almost like hitting concrete at that speed. So, nothing good is going to come from hitting water at that speed.”
TikTok, in response to the boat jumping challenge deaths, stated, “It’s not accurate to report this as a TikTok challenge” and that they “can’t comment on something that isn’t a trend on our platform.”
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