TikTok ‘bucket’ prank in supermarket hospitalises unwitting customer, US cops say


A group of young people inside the Tustin, California, store had put a bucket over a woman’s head, apparently emulating a trending TikTok prank, on Sunday, March 26. — Reuters

A simple shopping trip to Target for baby supplies sent Lana Clay-Monaghan to the hospital after she became an unwilling part of an apparent TikTok prank.

“I was looking at some baby soap,” she told KTLA. “I leaned down and my whole world changed. Everything went quiet, dark and there was really no air.”

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