{"id":51076,"date":"2026-02-17T22:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51076"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:35:45","slug":"its-always-going-to-be-springfield-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51076","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s always going to be Springfield Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NBC Washington<\/a>: non-fatal shooting incident occurs at Springfield Town Center between teenagers arguing about something reportedly nothing and inconsequential<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that often that I think much about my old stomping grounds, and it\u2019s been over a decade since the topic of Springfield Town Center<\/span> Mall has been in the brog, but here we are, thanks to an eerily accurate feeding from the algorithm to me, letting me know about a shooting incident in the shopping mall that I\u2019d wasted endless amounts of hours of my life at.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I opined in a comment on social media, they can change the name of the joint, and they can change all the stores inside the place, but Springfield Mall will always be Springfield Mall, a place cursed and destined to be a place of underlying danger and the uneasy feeling shoppers will always have that no matter what things appear around them, they\u2019re not entirely safe.\u00a0 MS-13 beheadings and 9\/11 hijacker presence have a tendency to leave their bad juju on a place, kind of like the premise of The Grudge<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking back to this assessment, it\u2019s almost a miracle that I\u2019m alive, considering the massive amounts of danger commensurate to how much time I spent there probably having increased my mortality rate throughout my teenage years.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the least surprising thing in the world to hear news of spontaneous violence erupting within the walls of Springfield Town Center considering the bones and likely jerry-rigged graves in which the place was built onto, and watching the video of the incident, it doesn\u2019t look like much has changed over the last 10+ years of Springfield Mall\u2019s final days and Town Center\u2019s day-to-day operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shithead teenagers loitering around the place, manifesting beefs out of absolutely nothing, and ultimately erupting into gun violence, what I saw in the video looked like it could\u2019ve been straight out of 1999, minus the taste in fashion, and the presence of bystanders all brandishing smart phones trying to video the incident instead of you know, calling 9-1-1.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then again, it\u2019s no secret that among the things that carried over from the old days into the current is the physical Fairfax County Police precinct in the mall itself, because nothing says \u2018we\u2019re [not] a safe place\u2019 than having to have local cops ready at the helm, within ear shot at any given time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point remains, as unfortunate it is to ever hear of gun violence in any way shape or form, it\u2019s good that nobody was killed and the offending parties were apprehended.\u00a0 But I still admit to being amused at the ironic reality that no matter how much time has passed, no matter that the name of the joint has changed, and no matter how much the insides of the shopping center has changed, nothing will ever, ever change the fact that 6500 Springfield will always be, Springfield Mall.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NBC Washington: non-fatal shooting incident occurs at Springfield Town Center between teenagers arguing about something reportedly nothing and inconsequential It\u2019s not that often that I think much about my old stomping grounds, and it\u2019s been over a decade since the topic of Springfield Town Center Mall has been in the brog, but here we are, … Continue reading It\u2019s always going to be Springfield Mall<\/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":[100,112,45,129,83,52,99,27,190,49],"class_list":["post-51076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-reminiscing","tag-virginia","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51076","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=51076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51077,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51076\/revisions\/51077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}