What is 'Bucket Prank' on TikTok? Why is the viral trend dangerous?
The bucket challenge has been trending on TikTok! This challenge witnesses TikTokers put a bucket or a basket on the heads of customers in shopping malls or grocery stores while pretending that they had no idea about the incident. The TikTokers then hide to record the reaction.
Sometimes the prankster will appear to be the victim of the joke while simultaneously placing something over their own head. Here's everything we know about the TikTok bucket challenge, and why it took a wrong turn in a California Target.
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Bucket challenge doesn't have to involve bucket
A real bucket is not necessary for the bucket challenge. Users even prank individuals using shopping baskets or, indeed, any container big enough to fit over someone's head, in TikToks that are uploaded to the platform.
Bucket challenge gone wrong at Target in California
Things went wrong when a group of middle school students threw a bucket over 30-year-old cancer survivor Lana Clay-Monaghan's head. The students appeared to record her while pulling a bucket challenge on her at her neighborhood Target in California. Lana claimed that she was deprived of air which ultimately caused her to faint and be rushed to UC Irvine Medical Center, as per Daily Mail.
Is bucket challenge victim alright?
Lana has thankfully been discharged from the hospital. She did, however, admit that ever since the bucket challenge event, she has found it difficult to feel at ease when shopping in stores by herself again.
'This could happen to anyone'
She said, "This could happen to anyone. We need to teach our children that you don't know what people have gone through in their life, if they have health issues, and that's why you don't go around to non-consenting people in public to conduct a prank," as per Distractify.
