Suspicion of a dangerous “Tik Tok” trend

Philip Jacobsen (12) looks twice in one eye and may need to have surgery, after a bicycle accident just after school on Monday this week.

– The steering wheel was loose and he hit the brakes, so he jumped on the wheel, Father Steinar Jacobsen tells Dagbladet.

They suspect that the wheel came loose on purpose. This is a scary new “Tik Tok” trend, which Dagbladet has mentioned above.

I have the brake in my eye

Felipe himself is quite confident in his case:

– Someone had come loose on my rear wheel, he says, pointing out that the wheel had never loosened like this on its own.

He says he was about to pass a friend when the incident happened, just as he stepped a little further to pass it.

– Then the wheel spun on the brake, so the bike abruptly braked. I tried and put the brakes on my eye. It hurt, the 12-year-old tells Dagbladet.

He previously appeared on Sandefjords Blad about the incident.

– We have no evidence that the wheel has been sabotaged, but there are several others who have recently experienced it and there is a lot of talk about it. The school has found out, among other things, so we strongly suspect that this is the case here, says Papa Steinar.

They are considering whether to report the case.

YOU MAY HAVE TO OPERATE: The 12-year-old is waiting for an answer if he has to undergo eye surgery. Photo: Private
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The emergency room

Philip thinks he had some luck in the accident, because he blinked just as the brakes were put on his eye, so his eyelid took some of the impact.

– If I hadn’t blinked, it could have been a lot worse, he says.

After the accident, he returned to school where he received help cleaning his injured eye. Soon after, his mother, Mariann Svendsen, came and took him to the emergency room. From there he went directly to the emergency room at Tønsberg Hospital.

– We are awaiting feedback on whether you need surgery. There could be two reasons why it looks double. Either you have an inflammation in the eye or some of the muscles that hold the eye in place have been smoked. We don’t know yet, Steinar says.

CLOSED EYE: Philip thinks he was a bit lucky in the accident, because he blinked just as the brakes hit his eye, so his eyelid took some of the impact. Photo: Private
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– sad

– If I have both eyes up, I see twice. If I close the injured eye, I see well. I can read that way, but my head quickly hurts, says Philip.

He chooses to appear in the newspaper to warn others about how bad it can be if he manipulates the wheels of other people’s bikes.

– I think it’s sad that someone thinks it’s funny, says the 12-year-old..

After Philip appeared on Sandefjords Blad, many contacted him and wished him good recovery and good luck.

– You are in a good mood, and you take it positively, but you think it is silly that someone does it to harm others. He’s disappointed with that, says Steinar.

– We hope that this case can help those who do that, to stop it, he adds.