I just stepped outside to find the tires and seat of my $1500 bike gone. Completely unacceptable #TEDxToronto @TEDxToronto
TED Talk’s Hashtag Gets Trolled
A fake rumor started on Twitter that bikes were being stolen from outside the Toronto TEDx Talk. And then tossed into a pile of burning bicycles. Sounds believable.
I know, right? Now tell your friends!
TED Talk's Hashtag Gets Trolled
Katie Notopoulos
A TEDx talk was held in Toronto today. If you were following along with the #TEDxToronto Twitter hashtag, you’d notice that mixed in with effusive praise for the enlightening speakers, something sinister was afoot. It appeared that there was a scandal where the police were cutting the locks of bikes outside the event, and tossing them into a giant bicycle bonfire.
Of course, that probably wasn’t happening, although I have no actual confirmation that the Toronto PD did not construct a fiery bicycle golem.
If there is a true and just God, I pray that he will allow similar thing trolling to happen on every TED talk hashtag henceforth. Hear my prayers, merciful Provider, grant us this joy, alight our lives with some harmless pranking of TED Talk enthusiasts. Amen.
has anyone in toronto had any luck contacting the police re: stolen bikes at #TEDxToronto? all my calls involve them laughing and hanging up
"Treat every day of the post-bike society like it was the first" #TEDxTORONTO #inspireme
Anyone other attendees interested in #crowdsourcing an #app about this #bike fiasco? #TEDxToronto
1st they came for Mopeds & I did not protest, for I had no moped, then for the segways–who cares–but then they came for my bike #TedXToronto
Not only was my bike stolen from #TedxToronto but a group of chatty schoolgirls dressed in Toronto city worker uniforms mocked my huge ass.
. @davidiangray please retweet until @tomayorford explains why dozens of bike locks were sawn off, bikes removed at #TEDxToronto
. @mizgooglehead the city of toronto and #TEDxToronto have conspired to steal and incinerate hundreds of bikes, for purposes unknown
DO ANY OF THE ORGANIZERS OF #TEDxToronto HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL FALLOUT OF INCINERATING HUNDREDS OF BIKES WILL BE
Very alarmed by the outfits donned by #TEDxToronto volunteer staff. superiors seem to favor red robes; underlings wear animist necklaces
I misplaced an iphone charger, two galaxie nexus chargers, an ipad touch, a dozen roses, and my bike at #TEDxToronto. Anyone seem them?
can all you trolls stay off the #TEDxToronto hashtag?? we need info on where those stolen bikes are headed not your jokes!!!
Virtually all of the TED Talk attendees whose bikes were stolen were affluent white males. Why are we being targeted for abuse? #TEDxToronto
what the fuck my bike turned into a heap of burning serpents #TEDxToronto
Reports coming in from #TEDxToronto where police are apparently smelting bicycles in preparation for some sort of Canadian bacchanalia.
#TEDxToronto Two TED staff just rode past on a tandem crudely made from parts of my bike & others. Laughed at me, shouted sthg abt 'alchemy'
My bike was stolen from my #Houston #TX work and is going to the #TEDxToronto #BikeFurnaces! #BringBackMyBike! kickstarter.com/projects/23690… Help!
#TEDxToronto bike golem now heading up the Esplanade, gobbling bikes & growing at an alarming rate. god help us all #bikes #golems #greygoo
If #TEDxToronto can hide approx 6500 bikes they can hide the truth much easier. HOW HOT DOES A FURNACE HAVE TO BE
Hearing that anyone wearing clipless pedals is deemed "one with the bike" and tossed into the furnace? #TEDxToronto
After discovering my bike was stolen I was the victim of a lot of overt sexual harassment from overzealous gay men at #TedxToronto
Please donate to my #Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/23690… to help raise funds to get my bike back from the #BikeFurnaces at #TEDxToronto!
My Bike has been stolen from #Houson #TX by #TEDxToronto Staff!! #BringBackMyBike!! Can Anyone Help?
@mistercqnzr Toronto police consider all items attached to confiscated bikes "contraband" and are throwing them in the furnace. #TEDxToronto
If @TedXToronto doesn't apologize -on stage- for the bike incident, TED talks all over the world WILL be boycotted. #TEDxToronto
The smoke from the Toronto #BikeFurnace hangs over the city like the shame currently hanging over #TEDxToronto for this crime. #InspireMe
To the ASSholes saying the #TEDxToronto #BikeFurnace isn't real, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_M… "The bigger the lie, the more people believe it."
my insulin was in a fanny pack attached to my bike #TEDxToronto
the cops just harassed my cousin and I(we're black) saying we stole our bikes from #TEDxToronto they pushed us down and took them. fuck this
urban assault team deployed, trashing toronto's most marginalized scapes in search of the bikes, boots on necks. hope ur happy #TEDxToronto
2 unicycles lashed together = bike. Terrible street brawl near the #bikefurnace now. Robed and hooded #TEDxToronto staff showing no mercy.
I won't be surprised if the melted down bicycles stolen from #TEDxToronto attendees is used to create handcuffs and police batons
Confused about the bikes being burned and jackhammered out front of #TEDxToronto. Performance art? I thought @TEDxToronto was science/tech?
Met friends at #TEDxToronto & took them out to show them my cool new bike and its... gone?? & the surrounding bikes too... Major bike theft?
Impromptu #bikefurnace talk happening at The Spaghetti Factory during happy hour. #TEDxToronto
All I know is #TEDxToronto will #inspireme to report the city of Toronto's #BikeFurnace to the UN
Just saw some firemen (???) outside #TedXToronto just taking axes to a bunch of bicycles. Is this some weird charity fundraiser or what?
Just saw a member of TED staff handing out what looked like metal swastikas crudely formed from partly-melted bike parts ??? #TEDxToronto
The stress of having my bike stolen at #tedxtoronto is being compounded by thier denial and victim shaming I can't believe this crap.
After not being able to find my bike for 2 hours, I find it smoldering in a pile with dozens more, miles away from Sony Center #TEDxToronto
On subway at King Stn. - an announcement that all Yonge trains are delayed, riot cops entered train, seized all bikes? #TEDxToronto-related?
Can someone at #TEDxToronto please enlighten me on all the supposed #bikethefts that've apparently been happening? Very curious about this.
So interested to get the actual scoop on #TEDxToronto bike theft situation. Weird tweets everywhere #chaos @CP24 get on it!
Who has two thumbs and is grinning like crazy at how these TEDx Talk attendees believed it? ME.
#TEDxToronto what is all this talk of bikes??? I don't get it
My Bike has been stolen from #Houson #TX by #TEDxToronto Staff!! #BringBackMyBike!! Can Anyone Help?
Hey #TEDxToronto what's the scoop on bikes being cut/confiscated outside venue? Does it include those parked at city locks? @TEDxToronto
Finally the official TEDx Toronto account (sadly, not called @itsrealTEDx) had to step in.
If anyone has a direct issue with missing bikes that they can report, please @TEDxToronto.
The bikes seem to be in order outside - please let us know if you are running into any issues! #TEDxToronto
Delegates - we're hearing a lot about issues with bikes outside our event. Please meet out front now to give us the full story. #TEDxToronto
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