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US teens have stopped eating Tide pods and are now jumping out of moving cars, to do a dance routine to one of Drake’s latest songs, “In My Feelings.”
The challenge is known as #InMyFeelings, #DoTheShiggy or the #KekeChallenge, and sees wannabe or professional dancers jump out of a moving car (going at about 10mph), do the routine and then jump back in, while the driver films the whole thing.
The idea might seem fun and it might seem easy to carry out, but it’s (obviously) dangerous. Anytime you think jumping out of a car while it’s rolling would be a fun thing to do, think of Anna Worden. At just 18, the professional dancer has to re-learn how to walk again, after she tried to do the challenge – and failed.
Worden was just released from the ICU at the University of Iowa hospital, where she was in critical condition since the incident that occurred on July 23. She doesn’t recall much about the accident, but she does remember thinking it would be fun if she did the challenge, too.
“We were over by the round-about, and I thought it would be a fun idea to do the ‘Keke Challenge’,” she tells WQAD. “I tried, and the last thing I remember was opening the door. So apparently I got out and tripped and fell and hit my head.”
Anna fractured her skull and developed blood clots in her ear and a brain bleed. She was in critical condition, but her recovery is still underway.
She wants other people hearing her story to stop and think whether a stupid internet challenge is worth all this pain, no matter how many views or likes it might earn them. “Be more careful about the challenges and fads that are going around,” she says. “It may seem fun, and it may seem easy, but at the same too, they could be so dangerous.”
By the way, it’s gotten so bad with this challenge that the National Transportation Safety Board felt the need to tweet that, yes, jumping out of moving cars is a stupid idea.
The idea might seem fun and it might seem easy to carry out, but it’s (obviously) dangerous. Anytime you think jumping out of a car while it’s rolling would be a fun thing to do, think of Anna Worden. At just 18, the professional dancer has to re-learn how to walk again, after she tried to do the challenge – and failed.
Worden was just released from the ICU at the University of Iowa hospital, where she was in critical condition since the incident that occurred on July 23. She doesn’t recall much about the accident, but she does remember thinking it would be fun if she did the challenge, too.
“We were over by the round-about, and I thought it would be a fun idea to do the ‘Keke Challenge’,” she tells WQAD. “I tried, and the last thing I remember was opening the door. So apparently I got out and tripped and fell and hit my head.”
Anna fractured her skull and developed blood clots in her ear and a brain bleed. She was in critical condition, but her recovery is still underway.
She wants other people hearing her story to stop and think whether a stupid internet challenge is worth all this pain, no matter how many views or likes it might earn them. “Be more careful about the challenges and fads that are going around,” she says. “It may seem fun, and it may seem easy, but at the same too, they could be so dangerous.”
By the way, it’s gotten so bad with this challenge that the National Transportation Safety Board felt the need to tweet that, yes, jumping out of moving cars is a stupid idea.
We have some thoughts about the #InMyFeelings challenge. #Distraction in any mode is dangerous & can be deadly. Whether you are a #driver, #pilot, or #operator, focus on safely operating your vehicle. Read more on this #NTSBmwl issue: https://t.co/b9D0IwNemV #MWLMonday https://t.co/vt6oFTbDsj
— NTSB (@NTSB) July 23, 2018
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