Two runners were using a flour to mark a trail for their running club in New Haven and caused a ruckus. The associated press, picking up on this said in their reporting
Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.
The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.
Well, the powder was flour.
It's a special idiot that can report that the mere presence of "flour", like, "forced" the evacuation of a "whole Ikea".
Stupid is as stupid does.
I've given up on clued in reporters, but really the dolt who wrote this one had to talk to someone. I cannot imagine weaponized anthrax was being delivered by spilling it an IKEA parking lot. I mean what happened to the Crop Dusters?
Somebody in New Haven was eager for a Tom Clancey moment.
Sadly, the mayor of New Haven, John DeSteano is a Democrat. But then again, maybe he can be clued in.
Does anyone know the politics of the police chief?
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