Repeated incidents in which windows were shattered at their Cathedral City home have members of the Palm Springs TikTok group called “The Old Gays” wondering if they are the victims of targeted attacks and whether it will happen again, a news report from NBC Palm Springs said this week.
A police report has been filed for the latest incident, during which someone apparently fired pellets at the home’s front windows in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 19, causing substantial damage.
“It sounded to me like we were in a hail storm,” Mick Peterson, a member of The Old Gays, said in the NBC report. “So, I checked out back and I saw there was no hail storm. I walked back out and it was obvious to me that the windows had been shot at.”
With nearly 7 million followers and more than 122 million likes, The Old Gays are a viral TikTok group that creates videos in Palm Springs and at their house in Cathedral City, the news report said.
The latest vandalism followed a day of filming TikTok videos in the front yard, the news report said. At approximately 2 a.m. on Tuesday, a white car drove past the home at a slow rate of speed and fired what seemed to be pellets that shattered the front windows.
In a prior act of vandalism, group member Robert Reeves reported that someone broke those same windows with rocks when he had one of his nude male statues on display there, the news report said.
Although the TikTok stars have filed a police report, the department did not report any immediate progress on locating the vandal or vandals and noted it could be 14 days before any progress is seen.
