• @Rolando@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    One time I was travelling through Latin America and we stopped somewhere at a food place by the road. They said: see that huge rock in the field there? One time many years ago there was a circus in town, and everybody in the town went, and it was in that field. But then there was an earthquake, and a mudslide started, and it was wiping everything out. But a clown managed to get a bunch of kids to safety and they huddled on that rock while the mud wiped out everything around them, killing everyone else in the town.

    Maybe it was all BS but it was a pretty vivid image. (edit: OMFG I remembered it mostly right.)

    • Flying SquidOP
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      186 months ago

      There’s a memorial in my town for a department store Santa Claus who rescued a bunch of people from a fire and then died in that fire.

    • @Nachorella
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      176 months ago

      That’s wild, thanks for sharing.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      386 months ago

      Being scalded to death in a vat of boiling toothpaste that you are dipped into head-first while being held by clamps attached to your toes would certainly be far less pleasant.

      Especially if it was that bubble gum toothpaste they give to kids.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        306 months ago

        Why are you people down voting this? That is indeed a much worse way to die. ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE TRUTH?

        • peopleproblems
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          116 months ago

          I’m pretending that they downvoted it because they were horrified he could come up with something so horrifying.

  • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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    306 months ago

    Oh, good to know, and here I was thinking that it was improper infrastructure and safety inspections, but sure, blame the clown, okay… 🙄

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  • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    286 months ago

    This was intentional.

    The clown was just an automaton, the geese needed to draw a crowd so when people fell into the water the geese could easily eat them.

  • aramis87
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    266 months ago

    In 2019, several hundred people went to a vacant lot in Philly to celebrate an event they knew was not happening. In 2020, another couple hundred people went to an abandoned pier in Philly to watch a man eat an entire rotisserie chicken in one sitting, for the 40th day in a row. Things haven’t changed that much.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      26 months ago

      Sure, there’s lots of other entertaining things to do, but a bridge collapse isn’t exactly boring.

      And a video of geese attacking people trying to get to safety while a clown desperately tries to stop them only for the geese to then turn and gang up on the clown has to have high viral potential.