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Dangerous social media craze encourages kids to set their laptops on fire — causing chaos in schools
TikTok’s latest trend has students setting their Chromebooks ablaze, sparking school evacuations and safety warnings across ...
Second Lexington school reports incident of ‘laptop fire’ social media challenge
Students attempt to short their school-issued Chromebook or laptop computer, causing the laptops to potentially catch fire.
Centralia police say laptop fire set by students may be part of social media challenge
Students believed to have set a laptop on fire at their school may have been inspired by a social media challenge.
Students are deliberately short-circuiting school laptops as part of social media trend
School district officials have had enough as a social media trend directing students to short-circuit their school-issued laptops sparked a half-dozen fires in the past week.