America’s Next Top Model is known for two things – delaying the credits for a full sixty minutes even though nothing seems to be happening, and sometimes ripping off that 24 show.

Surely that last bit confused you – we’re talking about the various bomb configurations Top Model management always forces their contestants to run from. As we understand it, this is an excellent way to tell if they’re still photogenic while they think they’re going to die.

Take their recent bomb scare, for instance – it happened at a casting call, and let us tell you – most of those girls seemed very un-poised.

America’s Next Top Model has a very special season planned. No, no – they’re not going to give another poor contestant a super expensive sex change. That’s been done. This season they’re gonna focus on girls who aren’t freakishly tall and long in the face. This decision, giving hope to normal-heighted stupid girls all over the world,  brought scores of them to New York City for a chance to audition for a spot on the show.

One of the girls isn’t stupid though – she brought a bomb with her. And as we understand it she was going to use said bomb if her audition didn’t go just right. That’s not true at all.

There was a big bomb scare though – it sent women full throttle in the opposite direction. The Daily Express has the scoop:

“Chaos broke out when people shouted “fire” and “there’s a bomb” as a car billowing smoke pulled up alongside the contestants, according to witnesses. The panic escalated when a man leapt from a car and began grabbing the women’s handbags…. The street outside the auditions in Manhattan, New York, was left littered with chairs and sleeping bags as the screaming women fled from the area. Kiara McCarthy, caught up in the stampede, said: “The metal barricade fell down. All of a sudden we heard this roar from behind us and there’s a wave of people falling on top of us.”"

The car was just overheating – but that didn’t stop the stampede. Later, NYPD officers tried to round the women back up with sheep dogs and rope, but they were still too spooked.

Most of the billowing women eventually gathered around a pond in Central Park, probably because all that running left them dehydrated and they needed something to lap up.

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