A rumor circulating on social media claims that "8-10 ft tall shadow aliens" are to blame for a massive police response at a Miami mall.
  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    90•6 months ago

    So it’s either a bunch of kids setting off fireworks which was mistaken for gunshots…

    Which is backed up by a shit ton of evidence…

    OR

    It’s 10 foot tall aliens because some idiot on social media thought they saw a blurry shadow walking around cop cars…

    We may never know /s

    • @intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      8•6 months ago

      I love the idea of an alien invasion in Miami and the first you hear of it is a bunch of gunfire as random citizens just declare war on the aliens within second.

      “Oh my god what’s that??”

      “It’s kinda shadowy”

      “Open fire!”

    • stevedidWHATEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      There’s not one video I could find of any sort of fight or these fireworks. They lined the streets with dozens of cop cars. You gotta admit it’s a bit strange

    • @DragonTypeWyvernEnglish
      14•6 months ago

      A dude in a white hoodie about to get lit tf up by an execution squad.

    • @remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      5•6 months ago

      DMT is too short-acting, unfortunately. Florida man went to mall on PCP, most likely.

      If there is anything that Florida needs more of, it’s DMT. That, and any other psychedelics they can get. Having everyone in the state take breakthrough dosages might do the world some good.

      • Flying SquidEnglish
        3•6 months ago

        I’ve never done DMT (and at this point based on my medications, I wouldn’t want to risk serotonin syndrome). How short-acting is it?

        • @remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
          4•6 months ago

          That’s cool if you are lucky enough to find them and identify them correctly. P. cubensis does OK on poo, but it does great with just some coco coir instead. It’s a mushroom that loves to be cultivated. The Pacific North West is really the ideal location for finding wild mushrooms. (You can find them all over the place, but there is a ton of luck involved.)

          Honestly, I would rather forage for p. semilanceata, aka, Liberty Cap. It grows in regular grass next to streams or ponds and not necessarily in poo. They are generally a bit stronger but also a bit smaller. With the exception of one look-alike that I know about, they are easier to identify.

  • @thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•6 months ago

    I hate our modern world. One dumb fuck says one stupid fucking thing and pretty soon everyone’s parroting it like it’s fact. Fuck

  • Flying SquidEnglish
    8•6 months ago

    Okay, but here’s my question:

    When they went to return the Christmas present to Macy’s, did they bring the receipt?

  • MammalEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    Kind of amazed that cops didn’t just randomly start opening fire at anything that moves.

    • @emptyother@programming.devEnglish
      9•6 months ago

      They probably did, and it did nothing, as in most monster/alien movies. Then the MiB showed up, sent it back up, and mind wiped everyone involved.

    • @XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      I’m thinking some high voltage experiments. Maybe a few microwave transformers in series. I imagine the “digital” look could be some alternating light sources bouncing across a few feet at a ~20hz frequency. The funny glasses could be welding goggles. And then some wild shadow effect as someone reaches over a stupidly blinding light? It’d potentially flip the shadow and look right side up for a witness. I’m not saying I know what happened, just trying to sound out my next Halloween prop

  • @paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    Just had co-workers telling us about this as if it was the strangest thing ever, that there were “shadow aliens”. They said that there was a bunch of military and Homeland Security that showed up to it as well (haven’t seen anything about that anywhere) and that they confiscated any video or phones that anybody had of it… but that all sounds pretty far-fetched in this day and age. Like, yea, I believe somewhere out there, aliens of some sort exist… but for them to just show up at a Miami mall of all places is kind of stretching it.

    The only thing kind of weird is that there wasn’t any video of the stuff going on inside. I don’t doubt all those cops would’ve been called out based on what little information they may have had in the beginning, maybe all they got a report of was “explosions” in the mall and so obviously they think it’s something else, but that nobody has a cell phone video of this 50-person brawl breaking out is strange in this day and age.