Run, ginger, run
A new challenge that's become popularised on TikTok—where else?—has children playing the knock door run
prank of ringing doorbells and running away. It's all good fun, for the pranksters anyway. That is until someone gets shot. Wait, what?
Julian Guzman found this to his cost when he rang the wrong doorbell in Houston, TX, at one hour to midnight and was summarily shot in the back.
It's not the first time that kids playing this prank have been given the opportunity to speed run their journey to the morgue in the USofA(fterlife) though. And not just by shooting either. Three rapscallions were awarded their wings after their car was rammed off the road by a disgruntled harassee.
All of which begs the question as to why those damned trick-or-treaters don't befall a similar fate. The little fuckers don't even attempt to run away, so they're sitting ducks.*
That'll learn 'em, an' no mistake.
The game goes under several names, including knock down ginger. I've as much disdain for gingers as the next blonde-loving, red-blooded male, but I wouldn't go so far as to exert violence on them for that alone.
* [legal-defence] It shouldn't have to be said, but I will anyway: this is meant as a joke, not a call to arms come All Hallows' Eve. [/legal-defence]