Hundreds Of People Showed Up To Chicago's World Famous Bean Sculpture To Try And Push It 7 Inches To The Left
There's a lot of fucked up shit that we randomly see on the internet every day. Homicides. Brutal fight videos. Extremely distasteful porn. But occasionally, you'll come across an online story that's just lighthearted and fun. A story so dumb, that it's actually kinda hilarious.
This is one of those stories, and I love it.
There was a viral rumor months ago that a man was trapped inside Chicago's Bean sculpture in Millennium Park. It became such a big meme, to the point where a second rumor was started. And this rumor claimed that the man got into the Bean through a trap door that was currently blocked off. But if the Bean could just be moved 7 inches to the left, the door would be accessible, and the man would have an outlet back into the real world.
Makes total sense.
So someone started putting flyers up around the city to convince all Chicagoans to show up one day and push the Bean with all their might. After all, it would take hundreds, if not thousands of people to get the 100-ton sculpture to budge.
And they definitely got hundreds of people to show up, that's for sure. I mean, there was a full-on mob looking to get their paws on the Bean yesterday.
Unfortunately for all of us, the people who attended were unsuccessful. But it was a valiant effort on everyone's behalf.
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I wish I knew this was going on, man. I would've taken the Red Line train over and covered this live. It was as close as you could get in real life to Patrick Star pushing Bikini Bottom somewhere else.
I also really hope these weird meetups never stop. Social media has made everybody so distant from one another, but I'm glad it can still bring people together for an event like this. Even if the whole thing is a total joke, at least it's a communal moment that everyone can be a part of in person. And everyone can pull their weight in trying to get that fucking Bean to move.
Until the second push.