# Have you ever witnessed an "action movie moment" in real life?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 18, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-witnessed-an-action-movie-moment-in-real-life/609906 "2012-01-18T15:44:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-witnessed-an-action-movie-moment-in-real-life/609906/101 "2012-02-02T23:46:17Z")

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This is just butt stupid, but here goes: some years ago, before 9/11, I was at work in a big ol’ office building on a large corporate campus. My building was right next to corporate headquarters, and housed primarily accounting and finance folks, including Accounts Payable and Purchasing.

One unremarkable weekday morning I was on the third floor in my office when I got a breathless phone call from my friend who managed Payroll. She told me to get myself and my people the heck out of cubeland and into a safe place. There were armed guys dressed in commando outfits storming the building - she could see them out the window from her ground floor office.

I jumped up and shouted at all my direct reports to get into the storage room RIGHT NOW. We (4 of us) hunkered down with the invoice stock for a few minutes until I ventured out to check things out. I crept over to a window and saw a shit ton of cops and EMT vehicles out front, with EMS folks going in the building. Called my friend back and she told me the coast was clear, so I then went and talked to the police officer in charge, who told me the same thing.

After I sprang the other department members from the storage area, we learned the truth: one of our knuckleheaded vendors dressed up some of their employees as ninjas, complete with hoods and fake swords and machine guns, for fuck’s sake, as a “promotion” to offer us discounts or some such stupidity. Several “ninjas” were arrested, the vendor was dropped like a used condom, and formal charges were brought against the vendor company.

I cannot even imagine what would have happened if this had been AFTER 9/11.

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