In addition to injuries caused by the Orbeez as projectiles, the trend could also insight fear or panic since some of the gel guns could be mistaken for an actual firearm. Over the past year, TikTok ...

HAND. RHONDELLA: NEW THIS MORNING, CANTON POLICE ARE WARNING PARENTS ABOUT SEEMINGLY HARMLESS SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE THAT COULD TURN DANGEROUS. IT INVOLVES SHOOTING SMALL WATER GEL PELLETS FROM ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Farmington police have alerted parents to a potentially dangerous trend your children could pick up online. The viral “Orbeez Challenge” has influenced young people to engage in ...

Two 18-year-olds were charged with battery after shooting water beads at about 25 people in Pembroke Pines and Miramar in a social media challenge, officials said. Ryan Quiroz and Andrew Morales, both ...

A search of the word Orbeez on TikTok results in numerous videos of a popular trend, the Orbeez Challenge, in which young people record themselves shooting the water beads out of airsoft toy guns – ...

Police want to remind people that the social media trend to shoot others using Orbeez beads is considered assault. A woman at Carolina Place Mall said she thought someone was firing bullets at her, ...

A trending TikTok challenge may have led to an 18-year-old in New York City getting shot and killed by an off-duty correction officer. Raymond Chaluisant was found ...

There’s generally a collective sigh when some new, horrible “challenge” sweeps through social media and captures young people’s attention. It always seems to be heavily dependent on risk and nuisance, ...

FACT THE ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF HERE IN PORT SAINT LUCIE SAYS, THIS IS N AOT VICTIMLESS CRIME AND HE SAYS IF YOU INJURE ANOTHER PERSON YOU’RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED. YOU CAN GO FROM SEMI. SAVE ALL THE ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH (KABC) -- The Huntington Beach Police has received more than 50 calls regarding drive-by pellet gun shootings since January. "We have seen a significant uptick since February in calls ...

NAZARETH, Pa. - A new social media trend has law enforcement in our area speaking out. Kids and teens on TikTok are challenging others to shoot strangers with gel pellets, causing injuries. The Orbeez ...