Yoga class gets interrupted after someone mistakenly reported it as mass killing
A supposed peaceful and quiet yoga class was suddenly interrupted when the police responded to a citizen’s mistaken report of mass killing.
The incident happened in North Sea Observatory's Seascape Cafe in England on Thursday, Sept. 7.
Detailing the odd encounter, the café narrated that the police responded to the venue at around 9:30 p.m. after receiving a report that there was a “mass killing” on the site after seeing “several people laying on the floor,” which they clarified it was a yoga session in meditation.
They went on to advise the public that the Observatory conducts yoga classes during the evenings, while also reassuring them that they are “not part of any mad cult or crazy clubs.”
“We are not part of any mad cult or crazy clubs. All in all this situation turned out positive and we are of course grateful,” they said.
They also acknowledged the local police's prompt response.
“Thank you to Lincolnshire Police for their prompt response. I can’t imagine for one moment what would have being (sic) going through their minds on the way,” they wrote.
Millie Laws, the 22-year-old instructor at the time shared with BBC News that the encounter was both “surreal and funny."
"They're [students] laying down with blankets over them, their eyes are closed. It's very dark in there. I just had candles and little tea lights lit the whole room, and I was just walking around playing my drum. I had a nice floaty top on with large bell sleeves," she said.
Millie went on to describe the report about the class, with the concerned citizen saying that it looked like a ritual.
"I didn't know until after we left that these people phoned in saying that there was a mass murderer; they were wearing a robe and they were walking over all of the people, and it looked like some kind of ritual, and that the people on the floor were actually dead,” she said, adding that her students remembered seeing "two dog walkers peering closely through the glass window” watching over them.
"I guess from the outside view it could look like that, because they're all really still, very nice and relaxed,” she added. "I'm sure their imagination was running wild with what was going on."
"I feel really bad for whoever the person was who [reported to the police] that would, of course, have been terrifying. So I do feel for them," she continued. "But at the same time, you've got to see the lighter side of it."