A social media trend is causing chaos at schools across South Florida. The challenge on TikTok called “Devious Licks” calls for students to steal, make a mess and post it on social media, to get them more views.
On Thursday, Miami-Dade Public Schools said they were investigating a small number of incidents to determine if they are linked to this trend.
In the case of Gulf Coast High School in Collier County, students recorded themselves ripping out sinks from the walls, taking lockers from the school and even stealing toilets from the bathroom.
“You see kids doing it all the time too like if a teacher turns their back like they’ll steal a clock or something. It just gets you like a lot of likes on TikTok, like all the videos are blowing up and it’s pretty crazy,” said Annette Hernandez, a student at Gulf Coast High School.
Hernandez said most of the bathrooms at her school in Naples were closed Tuesday, because of the trend. In one instance, a faucet was ripped out of the wall, spilling water everywhere and flooding the whole bathroom.
In Seminole County, a toilet was removed and placed in the middle of the bathroom.
“Currently we’ve seen an incident at about all of our schools, so we have 12 middle schools and nine high schools, so every one of them has pretty much seen it,” said Michael Lawrence, Communications Officer for Seminole County Public Schools
Lawrence says it’s a problem that is costing the schools thousands of dollars.
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