Madness.
On Friday evening, the Metropolitan Police responded to reports of an incident at Oxford Circus station after “a number of reports of shots fired on Oxford Street and underground at Oxford Circus tube station.”
As we know, the police did not locate “evidence of shots fired or casualties” during this operation, however, prior to the police arriving and doing their work, singer Olly Murs posted the following messages on Twitter.
Fuck everyone get out of @Selfridges now gun shots!! I’m inside
— Olly Murs (@ollymurs) November 24, 2017
Being told no shots in Selfridges! Have no idea the whole store went crazy!
— Olly Murs (@ollymurs) November 24, 2017
Being told no shots in Selfridges! Have no idea the whole store went crazy!
— Olly Murs (@ollymurs) November 24, 2017
Again, no shots were fired and given the fact that Murs has nearly 8million followers on Twitter, Piers Morgan asked him to be more responsible with his tweets.
Stop tweeting mate @ollyofficial. Nothing happened.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 24, 2017
Murs responded with the following message:
“Listen Piers! I was shopping and then all of sudden the whole place went mad, I mean crazy people running & screaming towards exits. We found a small office to hide to which loads of staff and people were saying there was shots fired. If you was there you’d have understood mate.”
Listen piers! I was shopping and then all of sudden the whole place went mad, I mean crazy people running & screaming towards exits. We found a small office to hide to which loads of staff and people were saying there was shots fired. If you was there you’d have understood mate. https://t.co/mnZBTSLod4
— Olly Murs (@ollymurs) November 24, 2017
From here on out, the story takes a rather bizarre turn on twitter as Toni Kroos, James Blunt and Kolo Toure (although it’s not the legitimate of the former Arsenal, Liverpool Man City defender) get involved.
Here’s what James Blunt had to say about Morgan chastising Murs:
No. You listen, Olly. When you have millions of followers be very careful what you tweet. There were no shots, in fact nothing happened at all. So you stirred extra needless panic by tweeting false information. https://t.co/6L3xTBlwuA
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 24, 2017
From the man who published fake Iraqi torture pictures. LOL. https://t.co/6VoVd6lZ2q
— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) November 25, 2017
As you can see, the Real Madrid and Germany midfielder gave Blunt’s tweet a favourite/like.
Ok, things are about to get a lot stranger as Toni Kroos, a Kolo Toure parody account, James Blunt and Piers Morgan engage in a conversation that was originally about Olly Murs.
You stay out of this @ToniKroos, if you know what’s good for you. pic.twitter.com/pBNhyF1xjR
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/KoloKolotoure28/status/934713801072611328
I'd be this angry too if my younger brother was better at football than me. https://t.co/0iZbTnXnHW
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/KoloKolotoure28/status/934723308112764930
Overdoing those 'diet' pills again, Kolo? Pipe down. https://t.co/ia2s9z45SK
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/KoloKolotoure28/status/934726522912542720
Mate, it's this kind of dismal defending that forced you into retirement. Ssshhh. https://t.co/e0dWDrgcR7
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/KoloKolotoure28/status/934737457936924674
It appears the penny has finally dropped for Morgan as he realises that ‘Toure’s’ account is, in fact, a fake one.
This being said, this fake account does have some pretty high profile followers like Vincent Kompany, Marouane Fellaini and Benjamin Mendy – so you could see where any confusion came from.
After all that, Morgan seems like he’s very happy to put the issue to bed….unless James Blunt and Toni Kroos decide to escalate things.
Ladies and gentlemen, Twitter in 2017 is a wonderful place.
UPDATE: I’ve just been reliably informed @KoloKolotoure28 is a fake. So I’ve been squabbling with an imposter. The real Kolo apparently isn’t even on Twitter… 🙄
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 26, 2017
I suspect the real Kolo Toure would also tell me to shut the f**k up, so no harm done. 😂😂
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/KoloKolotoure28/status/934756210678665217
