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A member of the public in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, called emergency services to report people lying on the floor

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watching too much US news there.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] peter@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think we should get in the habit of calling it "Karen" to report a mass killing

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Persom didnt call to report "mass shooting"

This person made a false report.

Wasting resources... In US, police is known to kill people who they were supposed to be "saving" because they got "scared"

This was at best negligence and should not be glorified

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

They didn't make a false report on purpose. And their police mostly don't kill people.

Last time I checked the stats the per capita (%) US rate of gun deaths from police shootings alone was higher than the entire gun homicide rate for Europe.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Making a false report is only a bad thing if they did it maliciously. I'm assuming they did it out of naivety rather than out of malice. In the UK the police are less inclined to kill people for no reason (of course, it does happen but it's way less likely).

[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Ha ha, well it’s called corpse pose so really, good job yogi’s.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A yoga class was cut short after a member of the public called the police to report a “mass killing” after seeing several people lying on the floor.

Participants in the class, which was being held at the Seascape cafe, inside the North Sea observatory in Chapel St Leonards, Skegness, Lincolnshire, were in the midst of meditation when officers turned up on Wednesday night.

In a Facebook post, the cafe said someone had “reported a mass killing” after seeing people on the floor inside the building.

“They were on their way to the observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building, having seen several people laying on the floor … which actually turned out to be the yoga class in meditation.

A Facebook post on the cafe’s page says the venue holds New Moon yoga classes on Wednesdays from 7.30-9pm where you can feel “called to dive deep into the lunar cycle”.

A spokesperson said in a statement to PA: “A call was made following concerns for the occupants of the North Sea observatory, at Chapel St Leonards.


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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Since it happened in the US, they all can be grateful that the police didn't turn it into a mass killing when they couldn't find a murderer there.

I guess, if it had been a black yoga class, they would have preemptively started shooting the participants.

[–] livus@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

it happened in the US

No, it happened in Lincolnshire, UK.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[–] JasonPh03nix@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

This did not happen in the US. If it did, it'd just be like your average Tuesday and you'd never hear about it.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption to make in the land of folk horror.