The challenge is in reference to the popular mascot of the Kool-Aid beverage company, known for bursting through walls and shouting “OH YEAH” in many ad campaigns over the years.
Surveillance footage from a Staten Island home captured the moment two teenagers crashed through a homeowner’s fence, in what has become a social media trend known as the “Kool-Aid Man Challenge.”
The challenge is in reference to the popular mascot of the Kool-Aid beverage company, known for bursting through walls and shouting “OH YEAH” in many ad campaigns over the years.
Staten Island homeowner Noby Augustine watched helplessly through his bedroom window as the two teens crashed through his fence. The incident occurred at around 12:30 a.m. on Monday in Prince’s Bay. Surveillance footage captured the two teens running toward the fence and crashing through it, sending the vinyl slats and garbage cans flying.
Augustine is just the latest Staten Island homeowner to become the victim of this social media trend.
“Monday night, I didn’t sleep. I got sick because of that,” Augustine told CBS News. “I looked from the window, so I saw like two kids were facing the fence and getting ready. So before I say something, they already jumped through the fence and they smashed it.”
The two teens were seen putting their cellphones on the ground, presumably to record the entire stunt, before bursting through the fence. Augustine has since reported the incident to local police but said this wasn’t a unique event, adding that he returned home from a trip two years ago and found his fence busted.
“It’s not funny at all, but, yeah, [they] should not be doing this,” he said.
In a similar incident in April, Ben Helwa’s fence at his home in the Eltingville neighborhood was vandalized in the same way as Augustine’s.
“I was just in shock because, once again, these kids ran through the fence. They fled the scene. Are the kids even okay?” Helwa told CBS News.
Augustine told the outlet that his fence has since been fixed, but is determined to get the word out to other community members to warn them to be on the lookout for this type of vandalism.
“Someone has to stop this,” he said. “We should not be keeping quiet, like we should stop doing it. All the homeowners, like, they should be speaking up.”
Local police said these challenges seem harmless, but they are crimes. And for any would-be pranksters thinking of doing their own “Kool-Aid Man Challenge,” authorities warn it could land them with a criminal record.
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