A camouflage-clad Florida dance troupe desperate to make it to a live TV talent show set off a rush-hour terror scare when they ditched their cars in merciless Lincoln Tunnel traffic and tried to sprint through the tube.
The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force was called in — and a massive contingent of heavily armed cops surrounded the harmless performers, who stood teary-eyed in their showy costumes as hundreds of angry drivers were stuck in the snarl.
“They drew their guns on us at first,” said Landon Burse, 24, the group’s executive director who arranged the appearance on BET’s “106 & Park” segment “Wild on Wednesday.”
“It was terrifying. I was crying,” said Eternity Odom, 16, one of the four girls who perform in the group.
The tunnel was closed for 45 minutes before cops realized the eight-member team was headed to the studio on West 57th Street. They eventually offered them a police escort to make the show.
But it was too late — the hard-headed producers of the live talent show told them not to bother, sending them in a trail of tears back down the New Jersey Turnpike.
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6 Responses
They may have talent in dancing, but common sense is not to be found among them. In these days of ubiquitous fear of terror,they should not even have donned their camouflage outfits in public, let alone walk in such place as the Lincoln Tunnel. And they’re a bunch of babies, too. Grown-ups should cry. That’s good for kindergarten students.
A camouflage-clad group ditched their cars and sprinted through the Lincoln Tunnel! Why were they not arrested?
#2, WHY IN THE WORLD SHOULD THEY BE ARRESTED? Also why would the cops come with their guns drawn to such an “occasion”?
A typical group of emotionally driven liberal artists.
Sick people.
Is that how they educate teenagers? To disrupt traffic for their own good? They should teach kids today how their actions affect others.
And yes, arrest them. They were a public nuisance, where were the adults in that group?
Why shouldn’t they be arrested? For starters it is illegal to walk through the tunnel. It is also illegal to “ditch” your car in the tunnel.