What started on Monday as a sponsored, influencer-led community event in Colorado — a vitamin ad, actually — quickly descended into chaos when a mob of 500 teens spilled into the streets of Aurora. From there, the riled-up young people took over a Burger King and grocery store, leading to theft, vandalism, and violence, according to numerous reports, and now police are investigating.
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“It was pretty bad,” says Grady Ferrick, one of the social media influencers at the center of the brouhaha. In fact, it quickly took on the characteristics of other so-called “teen takeovers,” which appear to be happening now with more frequency, causing disruptions, some dangerous, some not, in towns across the country…