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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

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Tags: ask.discussion, recurring.weekly, offbeat fridays, offbeat

Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like misinformation, lightbulbs.led and pilots. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was interested.

But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!

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    ‘Mass killing’ attended by UK police turns out to be yoga class Euronews – Saskia O'Donoghue – 7th September 2023

    ‘Mass killing’ attended by UK police turns out to be yoga class

    In a false alarm for the ages, police officers attended a call to a class being held at a cafe in the north of England, mistakenly believing it to be the site of a mass murder.

    According to the Seascape Cafe where the class took place, the person who raised the alarm mistook the yogis for victims of a killing and therefore notified the police, who quickly arrived in large numbers.

    Euronews – Saskia O'Donoghue – 7th September 2023

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