India, Aug. 2 -- A new "door-kick challenge" trend, which is doing rounds on social media, has sparked worries among the officials. This new TikTok challenge is an extreme variation of the "ding-dong-ditch" prank, which involves ringing people's doorbells and fleeing before they answer.

Under this TikTok challenge, pranksters randomly select a door in the middle of the night, kick it violently - sometimes until it comes off the hinges - and post a video of it online.

"That's a good way to end up dead," said Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood of Florida in a warning to citizens. "Especially in Florida. You've got to think you're about to become a victim of a home invasion robbery and, under the Castle doctrine, you're gonna shoot first...