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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 04:54 PM Mar 2020

Dumb Rumor in Philadelphia

So, here's an old picture of Drexel University ROTC students on a "ruck" (a loaded march) in Philadelphia:



This picture is recognizable to longtime residents of Philly as being in the vicinity of the Philadelphia Zoo.

So, instead of a perfectly normal picture of ROTC students on an exercise, it is being deployed on social media to "prove" the "military mobilization" that certain social media elements are using to stir up anxiety.

Fortunately, sharp-eyed investigators have figured out the REAL story.

They are, in fact, time travelers from the future trying to figure out who is behind a plot to free the zoo animals at the start of a plague outbreak in 2020!



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Dumb Rumor in Philadelphia (Original Post) jberryhill Mar 2020 OP
Oooo, is this like 12 Monkeys? coti Mar 2020 #1
Yeah, but he had some kind of dental problem jberryhill Mar 2020 #2
Well he can forget getting in to see a dentist these days! zackymilly Mar 2020 #7
ouch jberryhill Mar 2020 #8
The Mississippi National Guard recently released a statment LuvNewcastle Mar 2020 #3
When Obama was president NewJeffCT Mar 2020 #6
I remember that. LuvNewcastle Mar 2020 #9
All sorts of rumors flying around, I keep hearing a national lockdown announcement tomorrow Amishman Mar 2020 #4
The "I heard from my contact in FEMA" email jberryhill Mar 2020 #5
Mine has been 'i know a guy who knows a guy who said...' Amishman Mar 2020 #10

zackymilly

(2,375 posts)
7. Well he can forget getting in to see a dentist these days!
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:12 PM
Mar 2020

Mine canceled my root canal and I'm almost out of clove oil. Where's an ice skate from a deserted island when you need one?

LuvNewcastle

(16,998 posts)
3. The Mississippi National Guard recently released a statment
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 05:15 PM
Mar 2020

that they aren't going to implement martial law now or in the future. Apparently they have been hearing from some 'concerned citizens.'

LuvNewcastle

(16,998 posts)
9. I remember that.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:45 PM
Mar 2020

People like Alex Jones were saying that Obama was about to capture Texas, as if he would want them. Nobody seems to hold it against these people when they're wrong, and boy was that wrong.

Amishman

(5,754 posts)
4. All sorts of rumors flying around, I keep hearing a national lockdown announcement tomorrow
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:08 PM
Mar 2020

Though no one seems to ha e anything to back it up so I am highly skeptical

Amishman

(5,754 posts)
10. Mine has been 'i know a guy who knows a guy who said...'
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:15 PM
Mar 2020

But I've gotten that twice today from different people

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