[41] Around 12:30 AM on October 25, 2003, a teen was playing "ding dong ditch" in front of Jay Steven Levin's home in Boca Raton, Florida.
[43] On 13 June 2011, Michael Bishop, a 56-year-old man, shot at a group of children playing ding dong ditch at his house in Louisville, Kentucky.
A 12-year-old boy was hit in the back with a shotgun blast and was taken to Kosair Children's Hospital "with what police call non-life-threatening injuries".
[45] A 14-year-old Oklahoma teenager, Cole Peyton, was shot in the back and arm while playing "ding dong ditch" in the early hours of New Year's Day of 2016.
Taylor faces felony charges including kidnapping, making criminal threats, false imprisonment, battery and child endangerment.
[48] A California man, Anurag Chandra, 42, faced several murder charges for his role in a crash on Temescal Canyon Road on 24 January 2020.
A group of six teenage boys drove to a nearby home on Mojeska Summit Road in Corona, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, after one of them had been dared.
[50] In 2023, On Vancouver Island, Owen May took extreme measures to catch teens playing "ding dong ditch" at his home in Courtenay, British Columbia.
After being alerted by the youths' screams, the couple, with no prior criminal record, threatened one of the teenagers with a knife and made death threats.
[53] Two days after the event, she called the authorities, claiming she had acted in response to repeated "ding dong ditch" pranks at her home.