Uwa Ede-Osifo, reporting for The Guardian:
On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with
tourists and street performers clustered near the area’s many
landmarks. But in recent months, the strip has been set abuzz for
a new reason.Throngs of mostly adolescent boys and young men have been rushing
the Church of Scientology’s international headquarters on the
famed street.The so-called “speed runs” appear to be bids for social media
valor — clips of the raids have amassed millions of views on
TikTok — as much as they are an outgrowth of public intrigue
surrounding the church, which has previously drawn accusations of
being a cult. Some users have developed blueprints for the
building based on information gathered from videos of the raids.
I’m not condoning it, of course, but this video of one guy doing it sure was fun to watch.
