Incredible but true: a tutorial appears on how to steal a car, an illegal undertaking which however seems to have attracted a large number of users.
Since the web and the social network are in the public domain, the so-called ‘challenge‘, or the challenges that must be witnessed online and that affect many types of businesses.
Sul social Tik Tok, now used by many people, challenges are the order of the day. A truly paradoxical and questionable one recently broke out in the USA: steal a car.
In particular, this type of theft concerns cars that are not brand new and have become famous in the States in this area. These are brands such as Come on e Hyundaimodels that are very difficult to insure overseas, and at the same time very easy to steal.
The Kia Boys tutorial that is all the rage in America
It’s Hyundai among other things, they are well-known and popular oriental car manufacturers in the USA, for their reliability on the road and for the excellent dimensions of the vehicles. But at the same time they have become brands under attack by car bark.
They are Tik Tok the tutorial of very young guys is depopulating, who have made themselves known precisely to steal these models. They have been renamed Kia Boys and explain on the well-known social network the ideal way to steal a Kia or a Hyundai of all kinds.
According to the and statistics of individual American cities reported by The Verge it can be understood how much these types of cars have become real obsessions and easy prey for thieves. In Milwaukee, 469 Kias and 426 Hyundais were stolen in 2020 – the following year, 3.557 Kia e 3.406 Hyundai.
But what is behind the disproportionate increase in thefts of those car companies and on cars produced between 2015 and 2019? They are Tik Tok car thieves started posting videos of their thefts explaining how to steal cars. These are many young people with their faces covered who were filmed intent on forcing the locks of the Kias above all, entering the passenger compartment and managing to start the car itself and fleeing.
As it reports Republicmany accounts also received 33 million views: in Los Angeles thefts of these cars have achieved increases of up to 85%, while even 1450% in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. To conclude with a third further clue that provides more than one proof, in 2021 66% of cars stolen in Milwaukee were Hyundai and Kia.
A bit’ tutorial on how to steal a car, a little challenge latest fashion. Surely an issue that the insurance companies and the US police will have to be able to resolve. Huge damage also to the image of Kia and Hyundai as international car manufacturers.
