AP said:
I was going to say "isn't this the second time it happens to him", but yeah it was actually Rick Moranis some years back.
Yeah kind of thought that was the case as well. I'm glad to hear he's ok.
This was actually a thing before TikTok I remember years ago on the news kids were doing the "knockout challenge" and trying to knock out random unsuspecting people with 1 punch.
A lot has to do with the city's really bad mental health services monitoring. HIPAA actually hurts here as well since agencies can't really track folks well due to privacy laws.
Same. He's one that would be hard to lose, especially this (relatively) young
That one wasn't real. I mean, unprovoked attacks obviously do happen, but the panic over it being a supposed trend or game during that time was fake. Something to look out for whenever one of these "challenges" gets reported on is if you can actually find many instances of it on the platforms where it supposedly spread, or if all you can find are reactions to the incident that news outlets latched onto.
What happened here is terrible but let's not help the mayor push the post-apocalyptic image of this place he seems to love so much. Crime continues to trend downward in NYC.
Doesn't surprise me. I remember a few years ago on TikTok there was this grave panic about smacking teachers but literally every video on the entire app about this "challenge" was just a reaction to it. Could not find a single instance of it actually happening.
Somebody who was trying to tell him a couple of three tings.
