To be fair, Atlantans are pretty used to scattering from gunfire these days:
No joke. According to NBC News, the crowd piled onto an escalator to escape, and the escalator malfunctioned, dropping them all super fast before coming to an abrupt stop, which sent people catapulting into the crowd below.
The most literal use of a meme if I have seen one:
Nine people were injured in the event: One with a broken ankle and the others treated for various scrapes and bruises.
MARTA police at the scene said they heard a scream and a witnesses [sic] reported 'the person who screamed was reacting to an insect,' Stephany Fisher, MARTA's Senior Director of Communications, said Friday.
'I believe there's also video on TikTok of a woman claiming it was a 10-year-old relative who screamed when she saw a bug,' Fisher said.
To be fair, the bug was a Palmetto Bug, and if you've ever run into one of those types of cockroaches, you'd scream and run too!
There are plans to add staff to direct traffic on the escalator for major events in the future.
Alternatively (and perhaps more affordably), they could just bring in an expert exterminator.
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