The devious lick was a social media trend in which middle school and high school students filmed themselves stealing, vandalizing or showing off items taken from their school, typically from a bathroom. The trend went viral on TikTok in 2021, leading to the arrest of several students and warnings from police departments, and was reported in schools in the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Notable ExampleEight students in Boone County, Kentucky were charged over the devious lick trend, four with theft and four with vandalism 1 Classification
Offense GradeMinor or Summary Offense 1 Connections
Has Offense Grade
Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.
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1. Wikipedia: Devious lick
Lead section
The devious lick was a social media trend in which middle- and high-school students posted videos of themselves stealing, vandalizing, or displaying items they stole from their school, typically from a bathroom.
History section, Boone County Kentucky sentence
In Boone County, Kentucky, eight students were charged over the trend, with four receiving theft and four receiving vandalism charges.
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