Posted January 29, 2018 11:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The internet is an amazing technological marvel. I still remember it being described as the “information superhighway” back in the day, and it is. As a general rule, we tend to have the accumulated knowledge of mankind at our fingertips at any given time. It’s an amazing thing.

However, there’s a certain amount of stupid that comes from the internet too. That includes some of these idiotic “challenges” that come about.

One of the newer ones, one I really hope doesn’t catch on, recently resulted in the death of one person in Tennessee.

Not many people have heard of it, but a dangerous internet challenge is gaining popularity.

According to Memphis Police Department, one of the city’s latest shootings stemmed from this challenge.

It’s called the No Lackin Challenge.

On YouTube, videos of the No Lackin Challenge show people pulling guns on their friends and their friends pulling out a gun too. However, no one pulls the trigger.

Early Thursday morning, a 17-year-old was shot in the head at E’s cafe on Union Avenue.

According to the affidavit, 21-year-old Sherman Lackland was sitting in a booth with two people he knew, playing the No Lackin Challenge when Lackland reportedly accidentally shot his friend.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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