Video of barefoot girl-on-girl yard fight takes the internet by storm after 16-year-old aggressor is clobbered in the head with a SHOVEL.
Now Miranda Fugate, who proudly announced on social media that she ‘smokes weed for a living and is the the girl who got hit by a shovel’, has become something of an internet sensation’
complete with a spin-off Twitter account, Kendrick Lamar remix clip and even a hoax death – after a video of the crazy quarrel went viral.
The fight – between Fugate and another girl, identified as Emily Powers – was filmed by a friend, whose name on video sharing site Vine is Josh Officer, with the original eight minute clip being uploaded to YouTube.
The footage, believed to have been shot in Vandalia, a suburb of Dayton, culminates with an enraged Powers, after repeatedly asking Fugate to ‘get off my property’, throwing a shovel that whacks Fugate dead in the back of the head.
The latest viral video to do the rounds involved 16-year-old Miranda Fugate (left) getting smacked in the head in the head by a shovel thrown by Emily Powers (right) in a yard in Vandalia, Ohio.
Running scared: Fugate, who had been the initiator of the fight between the two, attempts to flee as Powers comes at her.
As the video quickly spread online, with some dubbing it ‘the best fight ever’, an obviously-fake news story that Fugate had died as a result of the hit proliferated just as fast.
Miranda Fugate died of serious head injuries after being hit with a shovel in the head by an old friend of hers named Emily Powers,’ the story, which first appeared on curious.
Fugate soon took to Twitter to announce she was alive and well, posting: ‘I’M THE GIRL that got hit in the head with the shovel lol … ya’ll made me famous for getting hurt LMAO.’Online murmurings said the scuffle started ‘over a boy.