TikTok Blamed For Georgia Football Player’s Arrest

by Larry Leo

February 5, 202618 Comments

Last week Georgia freshman London Seymour, the son of three-time Super Bowl champion Richard Seymour, was arrested on 11 counts of second-degree criminal property damage in the state of Georgia. He was booked last Thursday and posted bond shortly after...

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Now they're saying TikTok was to blame...

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Here’s where things get interesting. Speaking to the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, Seymour’s lawyer Kim Stephens explained that he had simply been participating in a viral TikTok challenge called the “Door Kick Challenge.”

The Door Kick Challenge is apparently a spinoff of the old “ding-dong-ditch” prank but instead of ringing doorbells and running away, the participants instead aggressively kick and bang on random doors – often at night – before running away. As you might expect, such behavior runs the risk of damaging doors and property.

(The Spun)

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HoustonGumbeauxGuy•2 months

How does participating in a TikTok challenge absolve anybody from committing a crime? what an insult that this guy‘s attorney would even bring that up… if the judge buys it, we are totally fricked as a society.

duckblind56•2 months

"such behavior runs the risk of damaging doors and property." Kicking my door in the middle of the night would probably mean the door is not the only thing that gets damaged.

SomeLSUguy•2 months

Right! I'm not waiting to find out their intention.

cajunmud•2 months

Remember what your momma used to tell ya, "if they jumped off of a cliff..."

CDawson•2 months

Social media, Facebook, X, IG, TikTok, etc are pure poisonous and should be avoided at all cost.

tigerinexile•2 months

Not being a dumbass goes a long ways in staying out of jail.

NebraskaExPat•2 months

I saw some video of these. They didn't just kick the door and run, they kicked and kicked trying to knock the door open or break it. I'm a little surprised we haven't seen the "they're just kids having fun" stories when one of them gets shot by the homeowner.

SomeLSUguy•2 months

Well funny you mention that... LINK

TailbackU•2 months

Yes blame your own dumbassery on TikTok. Very GenZ.

jnethe1•2 months

Gen Z? Or is it another thing?

Blueghost1978•2 months

Wow, how many of these “participants” have been shot while doing this?

HurricaneCamille•2 months

Such a pathetic, boring generation.

SoFla Tideroller•2 months

Any connection or nexus to social media during the commission of a crime should be an enhancement to the charges.