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1. Operation Pied Piper's Return

1. Operation Pied Piper's Return

Taken from the Stowchester Gazette, April 11th, 2013.

Crisis Worldwide - Young Adults Spontaneously Combusting

Across the globe youths approximately 17-19 years of age are spontaneously combusting across multiple mass casualty events. It has been two months since this on-going crisis has begun with no clear end in sight. Governments worldwide initially responded to the mass casualty events under the assumption of a coordinated terrorist attack.

However footage taken from mobile phones, surveillance cameras, news team footage, police cameras, and more all have told a different story. It remains unclear if these string of spontaneous combustions are connected to the still widely discussed incident known as the Golden Sky which occurred on the 25th July 1994, in which the skies all over the world shone bright shimmering gold for seven consecutive hours with no conclusively agreed upon explanation or cause (though many scientists, philosophers, and conspiracy theorists have put forward their points of view).

Dr. Richard Dowding, a Golden Sky Scholar at Oxford University, had this to say on a possible connection:

"Firstly, what we're seeing across all footage we have are youths exploding with an abnormal golden light, as if it were inside them trying to get out. Although we currently have just footage to go off, there is strong reason to believe it is the same type of abnormal energy which appeared during the Golden Sky."

Dr. Richard Dowding also had this to say, "Another possible connection to the Golden Sky is the age of the youths who are spontaneously combusting. Although there is some variance there may be a causal link between youths born around the time of the Golden Sky and the combustions."

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This suspicion of age playing a key factor in what youths are most likely to be affected by this strange and dangerous phenomena has been supported by governments worldwide. Prime Minister Irvine Armitage of the Conservative Party had this to say outside number 10 Downing Street a month ago: "This crisis needs a rapid response to avoid further loss of life. Which is why I have put forward an emergency bill which will need to be approved by parliament within the next few days if we are to meet this crisis head on."

The bill, called Pied Piper's Return, sought special military powers for the temporary authority to relocate all British youths who were born between the 1st of January 1993 to the 31st of December 1995. The bill harkens back to the 1939 Operation Pied Piper where 1.5 million individuals were evacuated to safety, 800,000 of whom were children.

Pied Piper's Return has since passed in parliament almost unanimously, with only a few holdouts concerned about a breach of government overstepping during a time of crisis.

Since the passing of Pied Piper's Return thousands of British youths have been relocated to facilities in remote areas in Britain, which for safety purposes are not known to the public.

It has been two weeks since the start of the rapid response initiative, with military and police forces forming a joint effort to evacuate as many at-risk youths as possible.

Susan Tuffnidge, Head of Pied Piper's Return operations, released a statement yesterday evening:

"Parents and Guardians, please do not interfere with the evacuation procedures which must be carried out for everyone's safety. We are carrying out this operation to prevent as much loss of life as possible, so we urge all parents concerned for their children's welfare to not interfere with any operations carried out by government operatives."

In the last week alone there have been numerous incidents leading to injury, and one incident leading to loss of life. A family, who cannot be legally named at this time, have been detained after the death of their son after attempting to prevent military personnel from carrying out evacuation procedures. In line with the Pied Piper's Return bill, footage relating to the incident is illegal and must not be shared.

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