Boo II
Remember when a marketing campaign terrorized Boston a few months ago? Well the other day, terror struck again — this time, in the frightening form of a faulty fax that cut off the bottom half of the transmission:
About 15 small businesses in a shopping plaza were evacuated for about three hours, including a day care center with about 30 children...
All this because personnel at a local bank went all to pieces when they received a fax with a cartoon image of a bomb drawn on it. But gee, how can you blame them for calling the cops, because after all, they also received "a suspicious package delivered by a customer around the same time."
No mention of why the package appeared suspicious or what it contained. Hopefully it contained a fresh change of underwear for the bank's hysterical employees.
Comments
I have to admit, if I got a fax with just the top half of that page, I'd be a little worried, "suspicious" packages notwithstanding.
Funny story man. Good one.
Posted by: Praguetwin | June 1, 2007 06:24 AM
Love the last line!
I have to agree with Praguetwin that I'd probably be a little suspicious too.
Posted by: Kathy | June 1, 2007 11:48 AM
pt and kathy, I guess these days you have to be a little suspicious. But they could have done a little checking before dialing 911. There must be an easy way to see where the fax came from. And in this case, it came from Bank of America. So unless someone thought bank officers were planning to terminate this particular branch with extreme prejudice, they could have avoided the panic, which cost the businesses that were forced to evacuate lots of cash.
Posted by: abi | June 1, 2007 12:18 PM