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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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Palmetto Bugs? They are nothing. Real easy to kill. Back in Rockford, IL, my employer’s southern facing windows were almost COVERED on the outside wiyh them certain times of year. Now, fireants in Georgia, THEY are different, and my wife is allergic.
Back in Florida, those palmetto bugs flew around my front yard like little airplanes.
I’ve been through there. The Downtown Connector is 14 lanes of sluggish traffic, and the Perimeter is Deathrace 2000.
Out in the So Cal desert area — think Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage — those giant roaches are styled “date palm beetles.”
Ping
If you ever wind up down under you might see the Australian huntsman spider, a/k/a the giant crab spider in your hotel room. Unlike most of the wildlife down there, these spiders are harmless, but who cares. They are from 9-12 inches across and are quite common.
At the end of the bus ride from Lackland AFB Basic Training to Keesler AFB for Technical Training in Biloxi, Mississippi, an MTI got on the bus and told us not to worry if we see a Palmetto Bug in the barracks. Just give it a kick to turn it on it's back and take the batteries out.
I would die of heart failure if I ever saw one of those! I can’t even watch them on television or see them in print.
Clock Spider... (shudder)
Palmetto bugs. When we lived in AF housing on the beaches in Florida, we caulked everywhere to keep them out.
Then we would find little granules of caulk where they had chewed their way back in.
Finally had to stuff steel wool into the openings, they couldn’t chew through that.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
Someone saw a job application
It’s an ancient joke. Nervous Tick got it.
Disgusting to bring a child to such a show. Perhaps they are grooming her...
“ Hey, to be fair, the first time I saw a palmetto bug, I screamed, too.”
I saw my first Palmetto bug last week. It was on my screened window. I thought that is the biggest roach I have ever seen and sprayed it with RAID. It flew off. Scared me big time knowing there are flying roaches.
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