Vanilla Ice, the rapper of “Ice Ice Baby” fame, found himself on the flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to New York City’s Kennedy Airport that left at least a dozen passengers sick on Wednesday.
When the Emirates flight arrived at 9:10am ET, the passengers were met with police vehicles and ambulances, plus an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CBS reports. Vanilla Ice, who was on the upper deck of the A380 plane, started to live tweet the scene to his 345,000 followers.
“So I just landed from Dubai and now there is like tons of ambulances and fire trucks and police all over the place,” he wrote.
So I just landed from Dubai and now there is like tons of ambulances and fire trucks and police all over the place pic.twitter.com/i9QLh6WyJW
— Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) September 5, 2018
The people who were sick were reportedly all sitting on the bottom floor of the double decker flight. Of the 520 people on the plane, 100 reported coughs and fever, and 10 passengers were hospitalized with a “flu-like illness,” according to CBS. Emirates’ home office suspected it was caused by food poisoning.
“This is crazy,” Vanilla Ice said in another tweet, adding, “So happy I’m up top.”
This is crazy. Apparently there is over 100 people sick on the bottom floor, so happy I’m up top, it’s a double-decker plane 380
— Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) September 5, 2018
But some his followers didn’t seem particularly concerned about the sudden illness affecting his fellow passengers. Instead of responding to his tweets with worry, people tweeted at Vanilla Ice with variations of his own song lyrics.
https://twitter.com/ptmcgrat/status/1037407193908297728
https://twitter.com/RyanKisiel/status/1037396898653630464
You should have yelled “Stop that plane. I wanna get off. Stop that plane. I wanna get off.”
— BigHeadBS💨 (@BigHeadBS) September 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/Kodanshi/status/1037416556941242369
Other, more rational people noticed that Vanilla Ice’s tweets sounded like the beginning of every zombie apocalypse film.
“Oh my god Ice you’re in the middle of the first scene in a zombie outbreak movie,” one person tweeted. “WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO FIGHT ZOMBIES QUICK.”
oh my god Ice you’re in the middle of the first scene in a zombie outbreak movie
— @gyrasolune.bsky.social (@Gyra_Solune) September 5, 2018
WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO FIGHT ZOMBIES QUICK
https://twitter.com/realSeanWise/status/1037467031019253761
The syncing dead?
— Fake Jeff Smisek (@FakeUnitedJeff) September 5, 2018
Of course, some replying to his tweets were genuinely concerned.
Why are they all sick? Whats wrong with them??
— C Johnson (@CODYJOHNS0N) September 5, 2018
“Everyone’s making jokes, because you’re such a cool dude with a great sense of humor & always have been,” one person wrote. “I get that. I grew up in the 80’s & 90’s. But in due honesty, I hope all the sick people get well. Wishing you & all the healthy people remain well.”
https://twitter.com/DaRealJonHunter/status/1037445325919842315
