Police called to yoga class mistaken for ‘mass killing’
A member of the public in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, called emergency services to report people lying on the floor
sanguinepar, 
When I saw this story, it struck me as funny, but then there’s that line about how the police officers must have been feeling as they approached what could have been a horror scene. I can’t even imagine.
livus, 
Yeah. Even the person who thought they "found" the bodies, rushing off to call the police, everyone must have been pretty freaked out.
Total contrast to the chilled out yoga people.
interloper, What are the chances the person who called the police was over the age of 60?
squaresinger, 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.
tsonfeir, 
Didn’t even read the article before dissing the US. Shot happens other places, you know?
Blake, Shot happens
I mean I don’t want to go so far as to make light out of shootings but I feel like this typo can’t go unremarked upon
tsonfeir, Duck of muddy flicker 😅
awwwyissss, Americabad
slinkyninja, Yeah but it is tho.
I mean just because the guy didn’t read the article, America still does all that shit regardless.
awwwyissss, Sure. Emphasis of specific truths is more important to propaganda than lies.
livus, it happened in the US
No, it happened in Lincolnshire, UK.
JasonPh03nix, 
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.
AllNewTypeFace, 
To be fair, that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption to make in the land of folk horror.
yenahmik, To be fair, it is called corpse pose. I guess the yogis were just too convincing for that poor person who saw them.
Philote, Ha ha, well it’s called corpse pose so really, good job yogi’s.
fubo, It turns out that lying on the floor is actually quite comfortable and should not be reserved for dead people.
AbouBenAdhem, We need to leave ourselves something to look forward to in our final moments.
BobbyNevada, Imagine the poor bastard who has to die standing up? He can’t even chill out after death.
RandAlThor, Watching too much US news there.
sadreality, UK Karens activated?
peter, 
I don’t think we should get in the habit of calling it “Karen” to report a mass killing
sadreality, 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
peter, 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).
livus, 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.
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