Oh no!
Twisted teenagers have resurrected the “Kool-Aid Man Challenge,” which wreaked havoc throughout Staten Island and elsewhere between 2021 and 2023, resulting in some arrests.
The damaging TikTok problem requires teenagers mimic the favored Kool-Help commercials, through which the bright-red drink’s pitcher mascot bursts by partitions and fences.
The problem usually requires individuals yell out, “Oh yeah!,” the Kool-Help Man’s catchphrase earlier than hurling themselves into fencing.
Staten Island’s Ben Helwa mentioned he paid for expensive repairs to his house within the Eltingville neighborhood, after a bunch of Kool youngsters busted by his fence earlier this month, NBC New York reported.
“I didn’t find it so funny waking up finding out I have big cost ahead to repair my fence,” he instructed the outlet.
Helwa mentioned the teenagers could be seen in surveillance footage utilizing a flashlight, main him to suspect they filmed their sophomoric shenanigans.
A fence was additionally atomized Monday within the Prince Bay, Staten Island, the outlet reported.
It was unclear if the identical group was guilty.
In New York, inflicting property harm over $250 is taken into account third-degree felony legal mischief.
In 2021 and 2023, incidents had been reported in Centereach, Northport, and Selden on Lengthy Island and Staten Island’s Westerleigh neighborhood.
The NYPD didn’t return a request for remark.
