Not The Onion @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @startrek.website 12 mo. ago

Miami mall shut down by police as rumors of “8-10ft” aliens inside go viral - Dexerto

www.dexerto.com Miami mall shut down by police as rumors of “8-10ft” aliens inside go viral - Dexerto

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.

Offbeat @lemmy.ca The Picard Maneuver @startrek.website 12 mo. ago

www.dexerto.com /entertainment/miami-mall-shut-down-by-police-as-rumors-of-8-10ft-aliens-inside-go-viral-2460987/

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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
- I want to believe (TM)
- 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!”
  
  Well... it is Florida and shadows are black...
- 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
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Yeah, thanks, I'll get my actual news from sites that habitually cover actual news, not various forms of electronic entertainment.
- I've started blocking any Lemmy account which shares shitty news like this. It's a shame because I really wanted Lemmy to be different from Reddit
  
  Be the change you want to see.
There's still plenty of time for Rockstar to make this a mission in GTAVI.
The fuck are they circling?
- A dude in a white hoodie about to get lit tf up by an execution squad.
Aliens abducted my personality and now I gotta talk about shadow monsters to feel interesting.
- Don't use Benadryl recreationally, your organs can't take the experience.
You'd think people in miami seen a brother before
Florida Man went to the mall on DMT?
- 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.
  
  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?
  
  Shrooms literally grow in the humid cow pastures.
  
  DMT ingested orally with an MAOI would do it
Of course its Florida Man being visited by aliens
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
Police can't wait to beat up a nearly 9 foot tall brown person from Mexico. Smh
Okay, but here's my question:

When they went to return the Christmas present to Macy's, did they bring the receipt?
- They take limited no receipt returns with photo ID.
  
  What if you're from out of state? What if you're from out of the country? What if you're a 10-foot tall alien from another planet?
Kind of amazed that cops didn't just randomly start opening fire at anything that moves.
- 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.
Stranger Things season 3 but in 2024 and in Florida.
Florida Alien.
No doubt about it.
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.
- Here are some people speaking out about what they had happen:
  
  Cops are not allowed to comment on it:
  
  https://odysee.com/@InformationForge:0/miamialiens6:7
  
  Cellphone was taken:
  
  https://odysee.com/@InformationForge:0/miamialiens2:f
  
  When you freak out for your life, you don't press record:
  
  https://odysee.com/@InformationForge:0/miamialiens5:4
  
  This guy is making it up: https://odysee.com/@InfoNews:f/Miami-Eyewitness:9
  
  he later says this: https://www.tiktok.com/@sosa.pippen/video/7320618673591438638
On tiktok i found this;

1st hand witness #1 https://www.tiktok.com/@portarok/video/7320640607658052907

~~1st hand witness #2 https://odysee.com/@InfoNews:f/Miami-Eyewitness:9 .~~ (on his tiktok he admits making it up)

Regarding the rooftop video-shot which is all over the news, as if there’s an alien walking… There a better video from another angle, showing those are 3 cops walking… https://youtu.be/fhyx_22iZIE?t=557

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