From Yahoo News:
22 heavily armed men post mannequin challenge on Facebook, much to delight of cops
By Travis M. Andrews
December 7 at 5:00 AM „³
The serious side of the mannequin challenge
Alabama police have seized guns and drugs as a result of a mannequin challenge video that went viral. It’s not the first time the usually light-hearted internet craze has turned dark. (Deirdra O’Regan/The Washington Post)
In the video, they were all clutching firearms of various caliber.
Pistols and shotguns hung frozen in the air, their blunt ends aimed at various persons, who remained as still as, well, mannequins. One man was prostrate under the back of a car, as if for cover, the barrel of his shotgun peeking out. Another hid behind a plastic trashcan, flimsy protection if this were a real battle.
From one angle, it appeared to be a Madame Tussauds wax museum exhibit ¡X a re-eneacted modern-day gunfight in rural Alabama involving at least 19 guns and 22 young men, frozen in time, scored by the pulsating beat of pounding rap music.
It was a version, albeit an edgy and ultimately inadvisable one, of the mannequin challenge ¡X that Internet craze of filming a scene of stark-still people, generally with the song ¡§Black Beatles¡¨ by Rae Sremmurd playing over it. It has become so popular that everyone from Taylor Swift to NFL players to Alabama inmates have recorded a version.
Those inmates might be able to film a version with a larger cast now, as two of the men in the firearm-studded mannequin challenge have, perhaps unsurprisingly, been arrested; one of them for ¡X you guessed it ¡X possessing guns.
Terry Brown and Kenneth White (Courtesy Madison County Jail)
The video was filmed in Huntsville, Ala., but Facebook allowed it to reach those far beyond the borders of the 186,000-person, NASA-centric city. Posted about a month ago on Nov. 9, it has been shared more than 85,000 times, AL.com reported, meaning it reached a lot of eyeballs.
Including those of the Madison County
