OUTRAGE ALERT! These Runners Are Furious After a Wormhole on Their Marathon Course Sent Them Tumbling Through Space and Time Into Another Dimension Populated by Enormous Ants
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Runners in a California marathon are expressing frustration and outrage after a wormhole sent them off course and into a hostile alien world populated by giant ants, Dumb Runner has learned, before returning them hours later to the same point where they’d left.
The wormhole, reportedly between miles 14 and 15 of Sunday’s Amador City Marathon, affected an estimated 220 runners, according to race organizers. The race apologized for the snafu, telling runners in an email that “human error” was to blame for the lapse and that they would each get complimentary entry into next year’s marathon.
The backlash was immediate.
“I was hoping for a BQ,” said one runner in a comment on the event’s Facebook page. “Instead I was sent spiraling through some sort of vortex, landing on an unfamiliar world with no mile markers and not an aid station in sight.”
“Zero stars,” the runner wrote.
Another participant wrote that she “can’t believe that this sort of dumb mistake can even happen in an organized race,” adding that while she expects a marathon to be challenging, she does not expect “to encounter insects the size of private jets in a bleak and eerie landscape.”
Refunds are not an option, the email said, pointing to language in the event’s waiver addressing hypothetical structures connecting disparate points in space-time.
“Things happen,” organizers said. “And after all, virtually all of our participants made it back just fine.”
