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Posted on 07/21/2025 6:43:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
To be fair, Atlantans are pretty used to scattering from gunfire these days:
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No joke. According to NBC News, the crowd piled onto an escalator to escape, and the escalator malfunctioned, dropping them all super fast before coming to an abrupt stop, which sent people catapulting into the crowd below.
The most literal use of a meme if I have seen one:
Nine people were injured in the event: One with a broken ankle and the others treated for various scrapes and bruises.
MARTA police at the scene said they heard a scream and a witnesses reported 'the person who screamed was reacting to an insect,' Stephany Fisher, MARTA's Senior Director of Communications, said Friday.
'I believe there's also video on TikTok of a woman claiming it was a 10-year-old relative who screamed when she saw a bug,' Fisher said.
To be fair, the bug was a Palmetto Bug, and if you've ever run into one of those types of cockroaches, you'd scream and run too!
There are plans to add staff to direct traffic on the escalator for major events in the future.
Alternatively (and perhaps more affordably), they could just bring in an expert exterminator.
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Did Beyonce sing “Bootylicious” for all the 10 year-olds in the crowd?
Hey, to be fair, the first time I saw a palmetto bug, I screamed, too. Of course, in my defence, I was seven years old at the time. Those are the official Florida Man of insects.
Those Beyonce Roy Rogers Cowboy Shows are a hoot.
Conditioning.
Typically these instances are ones you would run from without further investigation.
I heard that a bunch of people were trapped on the stopped escalator for hours until they could be rescued.
You could saddle those darned thangs and ride ‘em!
Atlanta is a creepy place unless you’re a stoned hood rat. No joke...the entire city smells like burning marijuana. I recommend never going to the Atlanta airport unless you’ve had a Xanax 30 minutes prior.
LOL! 😆
Her Super Bowl Halftime ‘performance’ was impressively demonic, if I recall correctly...
50 years I flew every week for work and Atlanta airport had the hottest of the hotties ...
UGH, thankfully I’ll never be in that crowd.
I’m surprised no one was trampled to death - as often happens when there is mass panic in a crowd.
I am fighting large, flying Japanese/fig beetles in my own yard - and understand the screaming and running...
My nephew was recently offered a promotion and huge pay raise - but he had to move to Atlanta.
His wife told him in no uncertain terms that she was not going and would seek a divorce if he went. Nephew wisely - and correctly - decided to stay in Virginia and forgo the promotion and pay raise.
May have saved their lives...
>> I heard that a bunch of people were trapped on the stopped escalator for hours until they could be rescued.
All blondes, right?
Some heifers were injured in the pileup. Many cowgirls of color.
That must have been before The Rise of the Ghettopotami!
Escalator is the thing with free and open entrance/exits on either end?
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