Beaning / #BeanBandits

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Beaning, not to be confused with Beaned, refers to the practice of dumping cans of beans on someone's property, similar to pranks such as egging and 'TP-ing.' The trend, which also goes by the name #BeanBandits, took off in the UK in 2021 and appeared to grow popular through TikTok, eventually leading to the British police issuing a warning to local residents about the trend.

Origin

On April 18th, 2021, the TikTok account @bean.bandits posted their first video, showing a group of teenagers dumping beans at someone's front door. The video gained over 1 million views and 201,000 likes (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6952677614335118597

Spread

The video soon inspired imitators on TikTok. On April 30th, 2021, the account @beanbandits0 posted their first video, gaining over 250,000 views and 70,000 likes (shown below, left). On June 19th, @scohd posted a beaning video that gained over 26,000 likes (shown below, right).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6957133485454707973

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6975621103540604165

The trend became popular enough in the UK that on August 13th, 2021, the Surrey Police Facebook page^[1] uploaded a post warning residents about the beaning pranks and to report suspicious behavior (shown below). The post eventually caught the attention of multiple news outlets, including The Guardian,^[2] Today,^[3] and Food and Wine.^[4]