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| Police Lock Down California Mall After Noise Panics Shoppers |
| 2015-12-07 |
| Scores of police officers descended on a mall in Riverside, Calif., after terrified shoppers and workers reported gunfire in the building, but the noise turned out to be breaking glass, a sign of the anxiety in Southern California in the days after a deadly terrorist attack in nearby San Bernardino. Reports of a shooting in the Galleria at Tyler mall began to emerge shortly after 6:30 p.m., when three men entered a jewelry store and smashed glass display cases to grab the jewels kept inside, the Riverside Police Department said. The sound of pounding sledge hammers and shattering glass sent a wave of panic through the mall as shoppers and mall employees, on edge after a terrorist attack linked to the Islamic State killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week, assumed the noises were gun shots. "The first thing that went through my mind was, 'Oh, God, we're under terrorist attack,'" Erica Muschara, 28, who was in a cosmetics store at the mall, told The Los Angeles Times. "Everyone was screaming and running." |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #10 #1 given what goes on just north of the base, its improbable but not impossible to be literally within earshot of a drive by. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-12-07 22:42 |
| #9 My daughter was 6 years old when we went to Ireland in 1983. We were in a post office in Derry mailing some cards while she was trying to open a bag of Sam Spudz potato crisps (potato chips) when she accidentally popped it with a loud POP! People freaked out until they saw the raining crisps around the little girl. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-12-07 20:22 |
| #8 You know the only thing that rymes with orange is door hinge. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-12-07 18:38 |
| #7 You know brown is just a tint of orange? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-12-07 18:32 |
| #6 Well, Skid, as long as she gets a brown shirt too. She looks really good in the right kind of brown, rowwwr. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-12-07 17:33 |
| #5 "You get extra #4 Skidmark wins the thread - and the internet. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2015-12-07 13:10 |
| #4 You get extra |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-07 12:56 |
| #3 Yes, AlanC. You get extra brownie points for turning in your own wife. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-12-07 12:49 |
| #2 Geez, my wife loves to pop all the bubble wrap that we get from Amazon. Do I have to turn her in ? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-12-07 11:58 |
| #1 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A lockdown at Kirtland Air Force Base turned out to be triggered by the sound of bubble wrap popping that was mistaken for gunfire. The military base went into lockdown Wednesday afternoon for about 45 minutes along with some neighboring public schools following reports of gunshots near a building on the west side of the base. Base Director of Public Affairs Eric Elliott says the popper confessed to creating the commotion when bursting sandwich bag-sized air pockets. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-12-07 11:13 |