Authorities say stop exiting moving cars for #InMyFeelings challenge

The #InMyFeelings challenge has led some to engage in
dangerous behavior.
John
Salangsang/AP

• Authorities are discouraging social media users from
  filming themselves exiting moving vehicles for the
  #InMyFeelings challenge.
• The challenge was inspired by the social media comedian
  Shiggy, who posted a
  video of himself on Instagram dancing to the Drake song
  “In My Feelings” on a residential street.
• Since Shiggy posted his video in June, others have
  filmed themselves getting out of moving vehicles and dancing
  alongside them or falling while attempting to dance.

Authorities are discouraging social media users from filming
themselves exiting moving vehicles for the #InMyFeelings
challenge.

“It’s only a matter of time before someone gets sucked into
the wheels of the car or dragged or the driver who is recording
it with their phone, hits somebody crossing the street,” Joseph
Solomon, a police chief in Massachusetts, told
CBS Boston.

 “There’s a time and place for everything, but our
nation’s highways and roadways are no place for the #inmyfeelings
challenge,” Nicholas Worrell, the National Transportation Safety
Board’s chief of safety advocacy, told The
Blast.

 The #InMyFeelings challenge was inspired by internet
personality Shiggy, who posted a
video of himself on Instagram dancing to the Drake song “In
My Feelings” on a residential street. The video went viral and
helped the song reach the number-one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100
singles chart.

Since Shiggy posted his video in June, others have filmed
themselves getting out of moving cars and dancing alongside them
or falling while attempting to dance.

“i almost died,” one Twitter user wrote in a post that includes
video of her falling on a street after exiting a moving car she
was driving.

On July 12, Will Smith posted a video in which he danced to the
song on top of a bridge in Budapest.

“Be smart, don’t attempt doing this under any circumstances,” he
wrote in the video’s caption.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said those who block traffic while
attempting the #InMyFeelings challenge could face up to $167 in
fines and one year in prison,
Bloomberg reports. The publication also reported that
prosecutors in Abu Dhabi called for three “social media
influencers” to be arrested after they were filmed attempting the
challenge.