Both Lockland and Mason City Schools have issued warnings about Orbeez gel guns in the past week. Lockland went as far as to ban them from the village's parks. For years before the pandemic, there ...

A search of the word Orbeez on TikTok results in numerous videos of a popular trend, the Orbeez Challenge, in which young people record themselves shooting the water beads out of airsoft toy guns – ...

In addition to injuries caused by the Orbeez as projectiles, the trend could also insight fear or panic since some of the gel guns could be mistaken for an actual firearm. Over the past year, TikTok ...

They’re called orbeez guns. “It’s like fake BB’s, right?” said John Medinger, from La Crosse, Wisconsin. “Gel BB’s, right?” Some look like brightly colored playguns, but police say others look like ...

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A dangerous trend, called the Orbeez challenge, is circulating on social media. Police and school districts are now sending out a warning to parents. These trends are ...

CHARLOTTE — A Charlotte high schooler may have been one of the latest victims of a TikTok challenge receiving attention statewide. The “Orbeez Challenge” involves using air guns to shoot Orbeez -- gel ...

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) - On Sunday evening, Ryan Strickland Senior’s Ring camera caught one of his sons running out of fear, after randomly being shot by a group of people driving around their Lee’s ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Farmington police have alerted parents to a potentially dangerous trend your children could pick up online. The viral “Orbeez Challenge” has influenced young people to engage in ...

Chester interim Police Commissioner Katrina Blackwell went on social media this past week to warn teens about risks associated with using Nerf and Orbeez toy guns. “While these items are marketed as ...

On the evening of April 3, Brenda B. "heard gunshots" outside of her El Cajon home. "Then I called my mom, who lives on my street," she said. "I told her to don't go out while I rushed to my window to ...

For years before the pandemic, there were complaints about high schoolers running rampant with Nerf guns typically as part of a senior class ritual gone wild. Now there appears to be a new weapon of ...

Over the past year, TikTok has become a breeding ground for what many see as destructive social media challenges and its latest trend involving toy guns that fire water beads or Orbeez is no exception ...