Thousands more vehicles stolen in LA this year because of ‘Kia Boys’ TikTok challenge – By Josh Cain (Los Angeles Daily News) / Sept 1, 2022
The teenager in Milwaukee calmly explains to his nervous interviewer how he’s stolen possibly hundreds of cars with nothing more than a screwdriver and a USB cord.
All it took was a little ingenuity of kids with too much time on their hands.
The interview, posted to Youtube in May 2022, shows two teenaged members of the “Kia Boys,” a loose confederation of young car thieves in Milwaukee who police say have stolen hundreds of Kia and Hyundai vehicles over the last two years.
The boys tell their interviewer they don’t fence most of the cars they steal. Rather, they abandon them wherever they can, usually within a day. He says the thefts are simply for social media glory.
