{"id":582506,"date":"2023-07-13T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/boat-jumping-challenge-cannot-be-attributed-to-social-media-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T01:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:42:49","slug":"boat-jumping-challenge-cannot-be-attributed-to-social-media-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/boat-jumping-challenge-cannot-be-attributed-to-social-media-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Boat Jumping Challenge’ Cannot Be Attributed to Social Media, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The head of an Alabama rescue squad\u00a0who said at least four people had died while attempting a social media<\/a> challenge where people jump off of moving boats and hit the water\u00a0now says he cannot say the deaths were linked to this challenge. Alabama law enforcement officials also tell NBC News<\/a> that they\u00a0do not have any record of deaths resulting from an online trend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On July 5, NBC News\u2019 Birmingham affiliate WVTM\u00a0reported that<\/a>\u00a0at least four people had died in Alabama attempting to leap out of moving boats. Capt. Jim Dennis of the Childersburg Rescue Squad\u00a0told another\u00a0local Alabama news outlet that<\/a>\u00a0four people had died in the state over the past six months after jumping out of boats.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast six months we have had four drownings that were easily avoidable,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were doing a TikTok challenge.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On July 10,\u00a0TODAY aired a segment\u00a0about the dangers of the social media\u00a0challenge, citing Dennis.\u00a0Later that day,\u00a0however,\u00a0Dennis told AL.com<\/a>\u00a0that his initial remarks were taken out of context.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had four drownings in the last six to eight months (that the Childersburg Rescue Squad worked) and some of those were just drownings,\u2019\u2019 he told the outlet. \u201cTo say (social media is) the reason they died, I can\u2019t say that,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cThat would be a matter of opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBC News has made several attempts to reach out to Capt. Jim Dennis via text and phone\u00a0and has\u00a0been unable to reach him for further comment.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up statement to NBC News on July 12, The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency\u2019s (ALEA) Marine Patrol Division said they\u00a0do not have any record of boating or marine-related fatalities in Alabama that can be directly linked to TikTok.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TikTok said in a statement to NBC News it has added warnings on some of its videos that note \u201cparticipating in this activity could result in you or others getting hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not accurate to characterize or report this as a TikTok\u00a0challenge,\u201d TikTok said in the statement, adding the company \u201ccan\u2019t comment on something\u00a0that isn\u2019t a trend on our platform.\u201d\u00a0On July 9, before the segment aired,\u00a0NBC News also reached out to Meta and YouTube and did not receive comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CORRECTION: July 12, 4:15 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0The segment that aired with this story has been removed after the official who blamed four deaths on a social media\u00a0challenge\u00a0has now said that he could not say the deaths were linked to the challenge.\u00a0This article has been updated to reflect the latest information from Alabama law enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The head of an Alabama rescue squad\u00a0who said at least four people had died while attempting a social media challenge where people jump off of moving boats and hit the water\u00a0now says he cannot say the deaths were linked to this challenge. Alabama law enforcement officials also tell NBC News that they\u00a0do not have any…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_social_share_1200x630_center,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2023-07\/tik-tok-boat-jumping-mc-230710-c5f49c.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}