Los Angeles: Mystery behind ominous ‘help’ messages in viral Google Earth visuals outed; LAPD debunks conspiracies
Alarming aerial Google Earth visuals of a deserted lot in Los Angeles have fuelled a new wave of conspiracy theories online. The brand-new subject of heavy speculation went viral on social media after Google satellite images raised alarm with ominous cries for “HELP” carved into the debris of an LA property. Police have since confirmed that the rail yard located a mile east of Los Angeles City Hall belongs to Union Pacific Railroad, per The Independent.
The creepy zoomed-in satellite images also revealed the words “LAPD,” “federal,” and “TRAFICO,” which means traffic in Spanish. The last one especially caught the attention of SNS users, who linked the abandoned property filled with dumpsters and trash to a potential ground for human trafficking. “A vacant lot near an overseas container facility. Human trafficking is a real possibility here,” an X user wrote on the microblogging platform.
Union Pacific Railroad issued a statement to The US Sun, confirming that the property is not a hotspot for any criminal activity, except trespassing. That’s not all. The photos gaining viral footage on the internet aren’t even new. “Photos circulating on Google maps that show the word 'help' on Union Pacific property were created about a year ago,” a Union Pacific Police Department spokesperson said. “No one was or is in danger.” The officials also informed that a man had previously trespassed on the lot to create the “misleading messages.”
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Alarming aerial Google Earth visuals of a deserted lot in Los Angeles have fuelled a new wave of conspiracy theories online. The brand-new subject of heavy speculation went viral on social media after Google satellite images raised alarm with ominous cries for “HELP” carved into the debris of an LA property. Police have since confirmed that the rail yard located a mile east of Los Angeles City Hall belongs to Union Pacific Railroad, per The Independent.
The creepy zoomed-in satellite images also revealed the words “LAPD,” “federal,” and “TRAFICO,” which means traffic in Spanish. The last one especially caught the attention of SNS users, who linked the abandoned property filled with dumpsters and trash to a potential ground for human trafficking. “A vacant lot near an overseas container facility. Human trafficking is a real possibility here,” an X user wrote on the microblogging platform.
Union Pacific Railroad issued a statement to The US Sun, confirming that the property is not a hotspot for any criminal activity, except trespassing. That’s not all. The photos gaining viral footage on the internet aren’t even new. “Photos circulating on Google maps that show the word 'help' on Union Pacific property were created about a year ago,” a Union Pacific Police Department spokesperson said. “No one was or is in danger.” The officials also informed that a man had previously trespassed on the lot to create the “misleading messages.”
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
