The Peterborough Police Service wants to raise public awareness of a TikTok social media challenge as continued calls of residential doors and garage doors being kicked or knocked with perpetrators running away shortly after.
Known as the ‘door-knock challenge,’ people knock or bang on garage doors and/or kick the front doors of homes and run away while filming the process. This typically occurs later at night or in the early morning hours.
Peterborough Police Service continues to receive calls about these types of incidents including two in December in town.
The Service is concerned about this type of activity because it is aggressive and unnerving for unsuspecting homeowners, leading to more extreme situations in other municipalities, according to a press release.
Anyone with information on this activity is asked to call Peterborough Police at 705-876-1122 x555 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online.