{"id":45540,"date":"2017-12-02T16:33:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45540"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:40:38","slug":"oh-marta-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45540","title":{"rendered":"Oh, MARTA #100"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Obviously, I can\u2019t have entitled this \u201cOh, MARTA #1,\u201d because I\u2019ve been chronicling MARTA fuck up stories for a few years now, but at the same time, I didn\u2019t feel that this particular incident could just be summed up in the arbitrary numbers that I make up on the fly that make it sound like MARTA fucks up way more often than they actually do although it\u2019s not really that much of a stretch to believe if they did.<\/span><\/p>\n

So much like they do in comic books or any sort of regular periodical, I figure to just let\u2019s just call this commemorative #100, because it truly was a MARTA incident that can\u2019t simply be recognized with some made-up number.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the story goes, since it all happened while I was overseas, the long-awaited implosion of the Georgia Dome, as covered by The Weather Channel, had their video feed utterly and completely ruined by a MARTA bus that just so perfectly timed its arrival into the shot right as the initial charges went off and the Georgia Dome came crumbling down.\u00a0 Usually, I like to believe that I\u2019m capable of coming up with way better headlines and descriptions of events than popular media does, because I don\u2019t have to play by the rules of censorship or any sort of policing.\u00a0 But when scuttlebutt declared the event as \u201cThe most Atlanta thing to ever happen<\/strong>\u201d or something along those lines, I simply had to shake my head and just agree.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, I can\u2019t really think of something more symbolic of Atlanta than a MARTA bus photobombing a momentous occasion.\u00a0 And you know the driver had no fucking clue of its actions, as it was probably some wage slave just doing their daily job, trying to keep to the schedule and continuing to move . . . people, routinely through Atlanta.\u00a0 But to the people at The Weather Channel who were completely banking on this footage, this was a cockblock that not even a Michael Cera film could have possibly executed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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They probably had all these plans, thought they had the perfect spot lined up in order to get the most head-on footage of the dome\u2019s implosion.\u00a0 The cameraman himself was probably thinking about how they were going to include the footage in their personal reel for when they decide to jump ship to a Turner network or try to get into the burgeoning film industry in the state.\u00a0 All 12 viewers of The Weather Channel\u2019s live feed of it were stoked to be watching their footage instead of the 5-6 other networks and local affiliates offering up live feeds of the implosion, or they weren\u2019t working at a place in the city like mine that had a decent view of the site from the tops of their parking decks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But honestly, the epic cockblock inadvertently done by the MARTA bus is probably the best thing to have ever happened for the city, the event, and MARTA itself.\u00a0 Had the event happened without incident, sure, a few people in Atlanta would talk about it on social media, but then quickly be forgotten until Instagram and Facebook remind people on the same day in ensuing years to remind them of it happening, or when it shows up in the AJC the next time a building is slated for implosion and they want to whip out a list of notable building implosions from yesteryears.<\/span><\/p>\n

But because the MARTA bus did what it did in epic fashion, the shit went viral, and everyone in the world pretty much caught wind of it. \u00a0Late night hosts started making jokes about it, news of the incident blew up all across social media and not just from those in Atlanta, and the thing became a massive meme that\u2019s ultimately pretty innocuous and harmless in the grand spectrum of shitty things that happen on the internet.\u00a0 And all through it all, the names Atlanta, MARTA, Weather Channel and other entities are mentioned that probably like the idea of them being talked about, and not in just detrimental manners.<\/span><\/p>\n

And to think the Weather Channel cameraman was freaking out about the blown coverage, when in the end, this was probably the best thing to happen to the careers of all parties involved.\u00a0 More people will remember the implosion of the Georgia Dome than ever would have had this not occurred, and it\u2019s all thanks to the mindless task running of Atlanta biggest mobile punchline, MARTA, and they\u2019ve given the world a pretty useful utilitarian meme that can be used just about anywhere in so many applications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously, I can\u2019t have entitled this \u201cOh, MARTA #1,\u201d because I\u2019ve been chronicling MARTA fuck up stories for a few years now, but at the same time, I didn\u2019t feel that this particular incident could just be summed up in the arbitrary numbers that I make up on the fly that make it sound like … Continue reading Oh, MARTA #100<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,118,153,143,52,91],"class_list":["post-45540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-marta","tag-memes","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-pf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45542,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45540\/revisions\/45542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}