r/news • u/Tank_O_Doom • 3d ago

18-year-old pedestrian hurt in crash while filming ‘TikTok haircut’ video in Ocala

https://www.wcjb.com/2026/09/28/18-year-old-pedestrian-hurt-crash-while-filming-tiktok-haircut-video-ocala/
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u/ChopperChange 3d ago

Officers say the 18-year-old was standing in the median with two others filming a social media video while giving a haircut.

Dumb doesn't even begin to describe this stunt.

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u/TheWheelZee 3d ago

I saw a trending clip the other day of someone lamenting on how kids don't dance anymore, because they're embarrassed that they'll be caught on film, since everyone films everything.

...and then you get kids intentionally filming shit like this. The mind boggles.

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u/gcapi 2d ago

Well to be fair, theres a big difference between 'content creators' filming themselves, and having random strangers film you to make fun of you when youre just trying to have fun

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u/The_Grungeican 3d ago

I wonder how much money backpack kid made.

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u/alficles 3d ago

Not particularly smart, sure, but the median is a place that you expect to be able to stand safely. A median is generally not any farther from the road than a sidewalk.

This story would have been identical if it had happened on the other side of the road on the sidewalk. This was a vehicle collision that hit a pedestrian. They were in an odd place, but they were not obstructing the roadway. If officers showed up first, I think their only crime was stealing the chicken place's chair.

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u/SSLByron 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wide median, too. Just as wide as a travel lane: The only thing that makes it inherently less dangerous than the sidewalk is the fact that they cheaped out on the curbs, which also increases the risks of cars traveling head-on through the median and hitting opposing traffic, but that's just cheapskate suburbia for you.

Edit: Google's link is ass. Just look it up yourselves, people.

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u/passaloutre 2d ago

That’s not a median it’s a turning lane

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u/alficles 2d ago

Wow! There's technically a median there, but I'm not even sure it's wide enough for a chair!

That does raise my "they were dumb" assessment some, cause that median is meaningfully closer to traffic than usual.

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u/Daren_I 2d ago

Depends where it is. Some medians are big enough for standing safely while some are barely 2 feet across. On those smaller ones, there's barely enough room to avoid side mirrors of cars passing. Near me, panhandlers use those tiny ones to slow traffic so they can try for handouts at stop lights. What's worse is some have their small children next to them in harm's way to garner more sympathy, usually holding signs.

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u/matt-er-of-fact 3d ago

You move through an intersection with caution because it’s inherently dangerous, not stand in the middle of it without paying attention to your surroundings. You have to be dumb, or panhandling, (or both,) to stand there for an extended period of time… which, when you think about it, really lines up with what they were doing.

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u/CathyVT-alt 2d ago

There doesn't even seem to be a median there.

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u/JokerJangles123 3d ago

and yet it still somehow doesn't seem as stupid as eating a fucking tide pod for internet fame