this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
165 points (97.1% liked)

World News

32509 readers
448 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

A member of the public in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, called emergency services to report people lying on the floor

all 25 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] fubo 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It turns out that lying on the floor is actually quite comfortable and should not be reserved for dead people.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We need to leave ourselves something to look forward to in our final moments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine the poor bastard who has to die standing up? He can't even chill out after death.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watching too much US news there.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Ha ha, well it’s called corpse pose so really, good job yogi’s.

[–] interloper 22 points 1 year ago

What are the chances the person who called the police was over the age of 60?

[–] yenahmik 18 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it is called corpse pose. I guess the yogis were just too convincing for that poor person who saw them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A yoga class was cut short after a member of the public called the police to report a “mass killing” after seeing several people lying on the floor.

Participants in the class, which was being held at the Seascape cafe, inside the North Sea observatory in Chapel St Leonards, Skegness, Lincolnshire, were in the midst of meditation when officers turned up on Wednesday night.

In a Facebook post, the cafe said someone had “reported a mass killing” after seeing people on the floor inside the building.

“They were on their way to the observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building, having seen several people laying on the floor … which actually turned out to be the yoga class in meditation.

A Facebook post on the cafe’s page says the venue holds New Moon yoga classes on Wednesdays from 7.30-9pm where you can feel “called to dive deep into the lunar cycle”.

A spokesperson said in a statement to PA: “A call was made following concerns for the occupants of the North Sea observatory, at Chapel St Leonards.


The original article contains 322 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 44%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] sanguinepar 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption to make in the land of folk horror.