Vancouver Fest Went Left: Vehicle Attack Leaves 11 Cooked 😭🙏

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Okay, so boom. At the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver, straight up chaos. This vehicle, outta nowhere, just plowed into the crowd. Eleven people didn't make it, fam, from little kids to elders. Like, imagine just vibing at a fest and then—BAM!—life over. It's messed up.

The cops snatched the driver, some 30-year-old dude. They're saying it's prob not a terrorism thing, but they know this guy and he's got a history with mental health issues. So, like, the situation is extra complicated. The mayor's already saying mental health is "the underlying issue" of the attack.

The Filipino-Canadian Association is big sad about the whole sitch and reaching out to help. Even big dogs like the Canadian Prime Minister, the B.C. Premier, the King of England, and the President of the Philippines are sending their feels and condolences. The city's doing a deep dive into event safety now, tryna figure out how to prevent this from ever happening again. They had done a risk assessment, but they didn't barricade the roads.

Witnesses are saying it was straight-up pandemonium. The car was speeding, people were getting hit left and right, and then the driver tried to bolt. Twenty-six people got rushed to the hospital. The fuzz is trying to keep the peace with a 24-hour assistance center setup.

It's giving major flashbacks to other vehicle attacks in Canada, which is just...ugh. This whole thing is a major L for everyone involved.