abadidea1d ago

yeah so um

I think I saw the wannabe terrorists who have been bombing my neighborhood

they almost hit me and Odin in their getaway car (we are okay)

the police were like ten seconds behind them and I helped point out which way they'd run after ditching the car after almost hitting me

this was right by the Jewish community center and the kids in the car matched the description and within two minutes the neighborhood was absolutely flooded with police so I'm pretty sure it was them

#amsterdam

Show threadabadidea1d ago

thirty seconds before this happened, I was giving a man standing outside the playground behind the Jewish community center the ol' motherly eye of suspicion because he was at a weird distance if he was the father of one of the boys playing basketball

but then it occurred to me he was probably staking it out, pretending to be a dad watching basketball, and was the one who summoned the cops

Show threadabadidea1d ago

your girl has given a witness statement in shaky Dutch while shaking from adrenaline crash

(I don't think it was anything particularly useful, since I didn't see their faces or clothes closely enough to ID them, though I did find out they have one of the kids in custody)

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I checked if any of this was on the news sites yet (it's not) but please enjoy this very Dutch headline about business as usual in Amsterdam: "Everyone saw Brad Pitt, except our reporter."
Mar 24 at 5:35pmWeb
Show threadBenjamin Suchard1d ago
This is pretty intense, I hope you're OK, but it also supports my suspicion that I witnessed Odin from a distance a few weeks ago, which is something of a silver lining
Show threadabadidea1d ago

@bnuyaminim.bsky.social oh I’m pretty transparent about where I live since I feel much safer than in the US (hahahahaha), I live right by the main entrance to the Amsterdamse Bos and Odin gets walkies all over Buitenveldert and up to Zuid station

You should have come over! 😭