It sounds like the most 2018 thing to happen yet, but you’d better stop, collaborate and listen because it looks like it’s true: Vanilla Ice was on the quarantined Emirates flight from Dubai at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Wednesday. According to the rapper and reality TV star’s official Twitter, he had been doing the “most flying I’ve ever done in my whole life” since the Labor Day weekend. Yet Ice’s global adventure came to an end with a video from inside the plane itself and a few brief comments about what he had gleaned online.
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
“So I just landed in New York coming back from Dubai and now I’m stuck on the runway with like 1000 police, ambulances, fire trucks, this is crazy,” he wrote in a tweet. After sharing a YouTube video from a non-news source, he then repeated the since-disproved initial report that over 100 people aboard the flight were sick. “Apparently there is over 100 people sick on the bottom floor, so happy I’m up top, it’s a double-decker plane 380.”
So I just landed in New York coming back from Dubai and now I’m stuck on the runway with like 1000 police, ambulances, fire trucks, this is crazy. https://t.co/U2ejDUmIUa
— Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) September 5, 2018
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
Despite the tardy nature of Ice’s video post and subsequent tweets, which came at least one hour after Emirates announced that all passengers had already disembarked from the plane, CBS New York seemingly confirmed Ice had been a passenger. Even so, doubts about the timeline didn’t stop most of Twitter from replying to Ice’s tweets with an endless array of apocalypse and “Ice Ice Baby” jokes.
All right stop! Quarantine and listen!
Vanilla Ice making a cameo in the sick passenger issue on Emirates flight at JFK.https://t.co/j19DIcFaCi https://t.co/yyhUQlhK4X— Zach Haberman (@ZHaberman) September 5, 2018
Vanilla Ice was on the Emirates plane from Dubai where a bunch of people got sick is an extremely good and true 2018 sentence https://t.co/tIrbJgrxrd
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) September 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/eiffeltyler/status/1037403425145638912
VANILLA ICE JOINS AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) September 5, 2018
we go now live to our infectious disease reporter on the scene, Vanilla Ice https://t.co/UCYmCJklRJ
— Charles Bergquist (@cbquist) September 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1037402575442604032
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1037408550023311362
someone in the newsroom just asked who vanilla ice is pic.twitter.com/X9Nniyy9yT
— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 5, 2018
(Via NBC New York)