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Did you see those kids "speedrunning" the Scientology building Saturday?

You won't believe what happened at the Scientology building

Okay, so picture this: Saturday afternoon, the sun's actually out, everyone's out on the seawall or maybe grabbing a coffee on Commercial Drive, and then suddenly, a whole mess of young people descend on the Scientology building downtown. Not for a protest, not for a tour, but because of some, uh, "speedrunning" trend. Apparently, this is a thing online now where folks film themselves trying to get into these properties and then bounce. On Saturday, they were apparently trying to get into the Vancouver one, near Nelson and Burrard, and it just created this whole bizarre scene. The police had to show up, which, you know, makes you wonder about how much public resource gets diverted for these kinds of, well, *shenanigans*.

### Why it hit different here

It's just… a very Vancouver kind of weird. We're a city that often feels like it's trying really hard to be a "world-class city," right? We have our moments, but then something like this happens and you're reminded that underneath all the glass towers and the carefully curated public spaces, there's this raw, unfiltered energy. The absurdity of it, this global internet trend colliding with a very specific, very guarded building right in the middle of our downtown core. It makes you pause. And it makes you wonder what kind of impression that leaves, for better or worse, on the tourists wandering by, or even just the locals trying to enjoy their Saturday.

* It highlights how global online trends can manifest in very local, tangible ways. * It brings a rarely discussed part of Vancouver's urban landscape — the Scientology building — into public view. * It’s a reminder that even in a city known for its calm, moments of genuine, baffling strangeness can erupt.

This city is beautiful out here. Complicated in here. That's the coast.

Mika and the crew are probably still trying to figure this one out – catch them live every morning at mornings.live.

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