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Those celebrating Halloween in Dublin felt tricked or deceived After a large turnout at a much-anticipated parade – which was not actually scheduled.
in one TikTok video viewed more than 100,000 timesThousands of disillusioned partiers can be seen milling aimlessly along O’Connell Street in the Irish capital as they try and process alleged holiday fraud – which evoked memories of 2017’s disastrous Fyre Festival in the Bahamas. Gave.
“It was very funny. The gardaí (Irish officers) were trying to clear the road,” said Peter Farrelly, who filmed the fiasco. Told the Independent.
Revelers had reportedly seen advertisements for the so-called Shindig On myspirithalloween.comWhich aggregates hundreds of events from around the world and calls itself “the largest Halloween website.”
The copy is created by content creators chirping away at their keyboards in various, sometimes far-flung countries. The Irish Times reported.
The listing for the Macknas Halloween Parade, which was scheduled to take place in Dublin on the spookiest night of the year, was widely circulated online ahead of 31 October, after appearing in Google’s search rankings.
It later emerged that the announcement was allegedly posted accidentally, but not before revelers descended upon the city in anticipation of a hootenanny for the ages.
Their hopes were dashed when the police published a social media post at 8 pm – an hour after the listed start time of the event – that no such celebration had taken place and that they needed to vacate the premises immediately.
“Please be aware that contrary to information being circulated online, there will be no Halloween parade taking place in Dublin city center this evening or tonight.” Officials wrote on X. “All those gathered on O’Connell Street in anticipation of such a parade are asked to disperse safely.”
Those present said they felt shocked by the incident Notorious Fyre FestivalA so-called luxury concert that famously stranded thousands of revelers on an island with nothing but meager food and emergency tents.
“People are waiting for the Halloween parade,” wrote one disappointed partner on x There are also pictures of people in costumes wandering around aimlessly. “There were no gardaí (police) around, there was no official announcement, people were waiting on the wrong side of the road… someone had pulled off a massive fraud.”
However, it later emerged that raining on his parade was not deliberate, but was the result of an innocent writer’s mistake, as the Irish Times reported.
The website owner, who identified himself as Nazir Ali, claimed that a member of his team had searched for events in Dublin and found a list of previous Halloween parades.
Believing that the banquet would happen again this year, he copied the details from another site and pasted it into his catalog.
“It was our mistake and we should have double-checked to make sure that’s what happened,” Ali said. “We are deeply embarrassed, deeply saddened and deeply saddened.”
This isn’t the first time in 2024 that Irish people have had a bad luck with one of Dublin’s busiest shopping streets – earlier this year, there was an infamous video portal between the bustling strip and NYC’s Flatiron district. Shut down after aggressive behavior Happened on camera.
The sinister transatlantic antics included a lewd man showing New Yorkers a provocative image of the World Trade Center on 9/11, while across the pond another provocative man flashed a swastika symbol on his phone, The Post reports.
