Dumb Rumor in Philadelphia

[jberryhill]

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!

[coti]

1. Oooo, is this like 12 Monkeys?

Has anyone seen Bruce Willis?

[jberryhill]

2. Yeah, but he had some kind of dental problem

[zackymilly]

7. Well he can forget getting in to see a dentist these days!

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?

[jberryhill]

8. ouch

Can you get antibiotics?

[LuvNewcastle]

3. The Mississippi National Guard recently released a statment

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

[NewJeffCT]

6. When Obama was president

Texas deployed their national guard out of fear Obama was about to implement martial law.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-state-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover

[LuvNewcastle]

9. I remember that.

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]

4. All sorts of rumors flying around, I keep hearing a national lockdown announcement tomorrow

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

[jberryhill]

5. The "I heard from my contact in FEMA" email

[Amishman]

10. Mine has been 'i know a guy who knows a guy who said...'

But I've gotten that twice today from different people