Yes, it's certainly a successful distraction. I wonder what big evil thing the shadow people are doing while the coast is clear...
(To think that in all likelihood naught of this would have ensued if they just hadn't reacted by jumping out of the camera shot - or had waved or somehow nonchalantly reacted ...
... a tough ask, a millisecond flight-or-flee, with everything on the line.-
Yea, people are saying that because they weren't the ones involved in the moment.