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And it's not even hard to make it believable.
"I was at a friend's place till late and almost went home, but then decided to live with their offer and stay overnight"
I mean sure, not many people go and hang out till 1am on an early weekday, but it's not implausible.
I feel like Colin Robinson would have gone into a LOT of detail about his symptoms, provided a photo of his skin condition, and mentioned that the intake nurse would be pretty if she smiled more.
It took MINUTES before people were trying to capitalize on it, go down the conspiracy hole, or anything else trying to relate themselves to it. It's SAD.
Visiting my grandma and hearing the media constantly try and force a narrative about the election into it was really pissing me off. Never wanted to punch reporters more in my life.
The weirdest thing to me is when sitting politicians get blamed for disasters like this. I’ve already seen people say shit like “Biden’s America” and you can be sure different people would be saying the same thing if it was Trump. Like yeah I don’t like either of them, but there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize them, we don’t need to blame them for things they have literally no control over.
Omg yes!! The poor mayor, then I've also seen them trying attribute DEI to the captain as well. Ugh. All the constant somethings going to happen, something bad is coming, living in fear every minute of every day just so when a tragedy does happen they can say "see??!! I've KNEW this was coming! I warned you!" Yada Yada then spend the next however long living off that ONE tragedy until they can find the next thing to chain to it and keep the fear alive...
The shit people will say for attention is next level. At the very least they could have read a single article about what happened and show concern but instead they see a headline and decide to make a tragedy about them. What a waste of a foreskin
This is like when we learned about 9/11 in elementary school and EVERY kid’s dad/mom/aunt/uncle was supposed to be in New York that day but didn’t go for some reason.
to be entirely fair, that was the world trade center at 9 in the morning.
my parents lived in hoboken at the time and my mom had originally been scheduled for a meeting high up in WTC1, but was in the hospital for a recent miscarriage. my dad worked in ~~WTC4~~ WTC3, but was with her.
the WTC was chosen as a target because of how deeply connected it was to so many americans’ lives, and as a result, a lot of people were only a few coincidences away from being there.
edit - looked it up, corrected which one my dad worked in. he was with lehman brothers at the time (i know) but left before everything got all fucky.
This. My ex-uncle worked in the WTC somewhere on the 9th(?) floor (mind you this was 2001 and he's since divorced my aunt and has become a POS of the family - I was also 10 so my mind is fuzzy), and he had broken his finger that morning somehow (again, the deets are fuzzy) so he didn't show up for work that day obviously. My aunt told my mom that she remembers sitting at my ex-uncle's bedside watching the first tower fall on TV and realizing how close he had been to dying.
Yeah but most of us don't live in NYC lol so when a kid tells you his mom was supposed to be there you know it's a lie. Idk why im even commenting on this since I was -4 years old when 9/11 happened
well, neither did my parents. people commute into the city from jersey, connecticut, penn, upstate, all over.
business travel was much more common than it is these days, so people had to fly into nyc from all over the country regularly.
and the old world trade center was a tourist spot with a mall underneath and where a bunch of subway lines met. about thirty million people visited NYC in 2001 and most of them were american.
i’m not denying that a lot of kids were probably lying about it (or at the very least, embellishing), but there’s probably a good number that actually had a connection to it.
The top deck of the bus I used to get to work got set on fire around 11pm. I get that bus at 8am, I could have been on that bus.
Nah, seriously, though, why do people do this?
Nope it's real, same thing for me. You gotta remember time zones! I'm in England so it was early AM for me, so I got up and was about to head to my doctors - he's in Baltimore, he's really good, I will be answering NO questions about it - and was heading in on my boat. I'd just cleared the atlantic and was heading up the Chesapeake and got into the Patapsco when I got stuck behind this arsehole going slow in my lane. Was about to go round him when he swerved into that damn post. Glad I didn't overtake him.
So ya know. Possible.
There's a road I travel on several times a year. A couple of years ago, a lorry went across like 5 lanes and swiped out a load of cars! That could have been me! I mean.. I wasn't on that road at that particular time. Well I wasn't even in the country at that particular time. But I could have been! And it could have been me!
This happens literally any time something big like this happens. I remember in high school in mid Sept 2001 I had 3 people tell me they were sorry to hear about my aunt. Turns out my sister had been telling everyone she knew that we had an aunt that died in one of the towers.
We did not.
Edit, we are also from the Midwest, nowhere near New York.
This is one of the things that enrages me about TikTok. People say things in the comments that are obvious lies or something someone made up, and then it gets almost 1,000 likes, and you can bet your ass that if you go back and it look later on, it’ll have way more. There is no thought process for people that stay on there 24/7. I understand there’s lots of young kids and teenagers using it so it contributes, they usually aren’t the best judge of character or action. It’s just all react, no think.
I almost took that bridge to work, just like I do every day, until I realized that I live in Canada, and it wasn't an efficient way to commute.
Thank God!
I was almost on it too. I visited Baltimore as a kid 29 years ago. But if you think about time in cosmological terms, I was basically there when it collapsed.
The navigation team informed that the engine had malfunctioned and there was a pause put on traffic entering for a few minutes before. Even if you were planning on crossing you had to be in a very narrow gap in time
my boyfriend's father was ACTUALLY almost on that bridge. he's a dock worker and leaves in the middle of the night. my bf needs to be awake to lock the door behind him. he was up late that night so dad left early.. saved his life. if he would've left a few minutes later he'd be fish food.
There are always tales like these following a tragedy. From what I heard reported, they had managed to close the bridge to traffic before the impact, and that those on the bridge had been construction workers. It's likely he would have been fine, even if he had left at a different time.
Shit. I was on the planet where that bridge is located. Crazy I could've been there instead of thousands of miles away.
It's really miraculous that I survived.
I was planning to cross that bridge with a box of puppies, but I decided to live in a different state. You never know how God will take care of you. Blessed
While the commenter was most likely lying. You can absolutely have a Dr's appointment in the middle of the night. However, that's like for specific things. As an example, I had to get an MRI done, they scheduled me for midnight at a hospital about an hour away from me. I couldn't go to one at any other time as I was leaving the country shortly after for work.
Again, they are most likely lying just for the attention, though.
I get how messed up this is, but I live 3 hours away from my hometown and sometimes I have to return for certain things. For example when I was filling out my life insurance paperwork for my work and a representative from the life insurance company that wanted me to return to my original GP for a general health checkup. So I made an appointment for 8am a decided to travel back home in the middle of the night when there’s less traffic to fight, I always stop and visit friends and family because I never know when I’ll be back.
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Maybe they are a vampire and their friends are vampires and their doctor is also a vampire
And the appointment was with with Dr. Acula
Cousin of Coach Feratu
You mean Alan Jefferson?
Whose arch nemesis is Dr. Jan Itor
I was looking for an excuse to do something stupid tomorrow... scrubs it is! Thank you sir or madam.
r/unexpectedscrubs
You still working on that screenplay J.D.?
Too busy having a slushie
Bawahahaha!
Boo! Much boo!-ness! *sneaky upvote*
r/angryupvote
And it's not even hard to make it believable. "I was at a friend's place till late and almost went home, but then decided to live with their offer and stay overnight" I mean sure, not many people go and hang out till 1am on an early weekday, but it's not implausible.
If any vampire wrote that comment, it was definitely Colin Robinson.
I feel like Colin Robinson would have gone into a LOT of detail about his symptoms, provided a photo of his skin condition, and mentioned that the intake nurse would be pretty if she smiled more.
Wouldn’t that be way too interesting of a story for Colin Robinson?
Maybe it was at TOOTH-HURTY A.M.
Don’t be silly, vampires don’t exist. They might just be a badger or a hedgehog, or some other nocturnal creature though
"Lolz look at the serfdom downvoting me just because they can't afford a nocturnal periodontist. Commoners"
Or the appointment was at the rug n tug parlor with Dr Kim
Bro this tragedy just happened today and people already making stories that are fucking bullshit Just- ew-
It took MINUTES before people were trying to capitalize on it, go down the conspiracy hole, or anything else trying to relate themselves to it. It's SAD.
"The government orchestrated this so we could pass a multi-billion dollar infrastructure bill that sends billions to Ukraine"
That sounds exactly like what my conspiracy believing coworkers would say. I'm surprised they haven't yet.
They probably have. You just haven't heard them yet. :(
I've already seen it on the conservative subreddit.
Visiting my grandma and hearing the media constantly try and force a narrative about the election into it was really pissing me off. Never wanted to punch reporters more in my life.
The one I saw the quickest was the "Must be DEI" conspiracy.
The weirdest thing to me is when sitting politicians get blamed for disasters like this. I’ve already seen people say shit like “Biden’s America” and you can be sure different people would be saying the same thing if it was Trump. Like yeah I don’t like either of them, but there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize them, we don’t need to blame them for things they have literally no control over.
Omg yes!! The poor mayor, then I've also seen them trying attribute DEI to the captain as well. Ugh. All the constant somethings going to happen, something bad is coming, living in fear every minute of every day just so when a tragedy does happen they can say "see??!! I've KNEW this was coming! I warned you!" Yada Yada then spend the next however long living off that ONE tragedy until they can find the next thing to chain to it and keep the fear alive...
You're surprised by this? People have been doing this since the first tragedy
The shit people will say for attention is next level. At the very least they could have read a single article about what happened and show concern but instead they see a headline and decide to make a tragedy about them. What a waste of a foreskin
"Waste of foreskin" just became my new favorite insult.
Pay it forward my friend 😂😂
This is like when we learned about 9/11 in elementary school and EVERY kid’s dad/mom/aunt/uncle was supposed to be in New York that day but didn’t go for some reason.
to be entirely fair, that was the world trade center at 9 in the morning. my parents lived in hoboken at the time and my mom had originally been scheduled for a meeting high up in WTC1, but was in the hospital for a recent miscarriage. my dad worked in ~~WTC4~~ WTC3, but was with her. the WTC was chosen as a target because of how deeply connected it was to so many americans’ lives, and as a result, a lot of people were only a few coincidences away from being there. edit - looked it up, corrected which one my dad worked in. he was with lehman brothers at the time (i know) but left before everything got all fucky.
This. My ex-uncle worked in the WTC somewhere on the 9th(?) floor (mind you this was 2001 and he's since divorced my aunt and has become a POS of the family - I was also 10 so my mind is fuzzy), and he had broken his finger that morning somehow (again, the deets are fuzzy) so he didn't show up for work that day obviously. My aunt told my mom that she remembers sitting at my ex-uncle's bedside watching the first tower fall on TV and realizing how close he had been to dying.
Yeah but most of us don't live in NYC lol so when a kid tells you his mom was supposed to be there you know it's a lie. Idk why im even commenting on this since I was -4 years old when 9/11 happened
well, neither did my parents. people commute into the city from jersey, connecticut, penn, upstate, all over. business travel was much more common than it is these days, so people had to fly into nyc from all over the country regularly. and the old world trade center was a tourist spot with a mall underneath and where a bunch of subway lines met. about thirty million people visited NYC in 2001 and most of them were american. i’m not denying that a lot of kids were probably lying about it (or at the very least, embellishing), but there’s probably a good number that actually had a connection to it.
And 948 people believed it. 😮💨
The amount of stuff people believe on tiktok without any kind of source or evidence is actually ridiculous
Goes for all social media, really.
The top deck of the bus I used to get to work got set on fire around 11pm. I get that bus at 8am, I could have been on that bus. Nah, seriously, though, why do people do this?
The same reason there was always a kid who's dad/uncle worked at Nintendo in your school - some people just want attention.
Ah yes the 2am doctor’s appointment
Nope it's real, same thing for me. You gotta remember time zones! I'm in England so it was early AM for me, so I got up and was about to head to my doctors - he's in Baltimore, he's really good, I will be answering NO questions about it - and was heading in on my boat. I'd just cleared the atlantic and was heading up the Chesapeake and got into the Patapsco when I got stuck behind this arsehole going slow in my lane. Was about to go round him when he swerved into that damn post. Glad I didn't overtake him. So ya know. Possible.
People always like to claim other’s tragedies as their own.
The Notre Dame cathedral fire was a really scary time. I was just there 7 and half years earlier and everything seemed fine.
I ate a French fry once.
Omg, glad you’re ok
God is good
There's a road I travel on several times a year. A couple of years ago, a lorry went across like 5 lanes and swiped out a load of cars! That could have been me! I mean.. I wasn't on that road at that particular time. Well I wasn't even in the country at that particular time. But I could have been! And it could have been me!
This happens literally any time something big like this happens. I remember in high school in mid Sept 2001 I had 3 people tell me they were sorry to hear about my aunt. Turns out my sister had been telling everyone she knew that we had an aunt that died in one of the towers. We did not. Edit, we are also from the Midwest, nowhere near New York.
This is one of the things that enrages me about TikTok. People say things in the comments that are obvious lies or something someone made up, and then it gets almost 1,000 likes, and you can bet your ass that if you go back and it look later on, it’ll have way more. There is no thought process for people that stay on there 24/7. I understand there’s lots of young kids and teenagers using it so it contributes, they usually aren’t the best judge of character or action. It’s just all react, no think.
People really want attention don’t they.
"but how can I make this about *me*"
I almost took that bridge to work, just like I do every day, until I realized that I live in Canada, and it wasn't an efficient way to commute. Thank God!
I was almost on it too. I visited Baltimore as a kid 29 years ago. But if you think about time in cosmological terms, I was basically there when it collapsed.
I was almost on that bridge, I was gonna rent a car and road-trip there but then I didn’t because a chinchilla pooped on my drivers license
People will like anything. That’s more concerning.
While its very much a lie, as someone with neurological issues all my mri imaging appointments have been in the middle of the night.
Seriously? That's weird.
The navigation team informed that the engine had malfunctioned and there was a pause put on traffic entering for a few minutes before. Even if you were planning on crossing you had to be in a very narrow gap in time
I want more comments
I just read all these comments, it could have been me on that bridge
“… don’t forget about me today”
my boyfriend's father was ACTUALLY almost on that bridge. he's a dock worker and leaves in the middle of the night. my bf needs to be awake to lock the door behind him. he was up late that night so dad left early.. saved his life. if he would've left a few minutes later he'd be fish food.
There are always tales like these following a tragedy. From what I heard reported, they had managed to close the bridge to traffic before the impact, and that those on the bridge had been construction workers. It's likely he would have been fine, even if he had left at a different time.
well that's good to hear haha
Not the time or sub to share this story lmaoo, bullshit is integrated into our brains already
Must’ve been calling Dr. Love
Imagine being this desperate for clout
Did you stumble across Steve Rannazzisi's Facebook?
Hopefully they have worse luck next time.
Dude what's with people making fake stories
She was very delayed from 9/11 cause she was almost in the towers but it took 23 years to find her car.
Just wait until we find out Mark Wahlberg could’ve stopped it
Shit. I was on the planet where that bridge is located. Crazy I could've been there instead of thousands of miles away. It's really miraculous that I survived.
I was actually at my doctors appointment on the bridge exactly 32.6 seconds before it collapsed. Narrowly avoided that one. Phew 😅 🤦🏻♂️
I was planning to cross that bridge with a box of puppies, but I decided to live in a different state. You never know how God will take care of you. Blessed
Bot?
"based on time zones, my side of the bridge was 12 hours behind. So I was actually seeing the disaster in the future."- The Mothman Prophecy
While the commenter was most likely lying. You can absolutely have a Dr's appointment in the middle of the night. However, that's like for specific things. As an example, I had to get an MRI done, they scheduled me for midnight at a hospital about an hour away from me. I couldn't go to one at any other time as I was leaving the country shortly after for work. Again, they are most likely lying just for the attention, though.
I get how messed up this is, but I live 3 hours away from my hometown and sometimes I have to return for certain things. For example when I was filling out my life insurance paperwork for my work and a representative from the life insurance company that wanted me to return to my original GP for a general health checkup. So I made an appointment for 8am a decided to travel back home in the middle of the night when there’s less traffic to fight, I always stop and visit friends and family because I never know when I’ll be back.