SWAT Team Try’s To Negotiate With Cardboard Cutout
Armed police finally ended a ninety minute siege at a bank, only to discover that they’d been in a tense stand-off with a cardboard cutout.
The cops raced to the PNC Bank in Montgomery Township, New Jersey, last Thursday when an alarm went off. Upon seeing the silhouette of a person in the window of the bank, with the blinds drawn, they promptly sealed off the area and evacuated nearby buildings.
There then followed a nervous hour and a half confrontation as authorities attempted to make contact with the shadowy figure.
…are you kidding me?! We’re battling war(s), in a recession, and you’re chasing a cardboard cutout?
“I drove in the parking lot and see all these guys with guns,” local resident Ross Stout told the Star-Ledger newspaper.
After ninety minutes of fruitless attempts to negotiate with the figure using bullhorns and telephones, the police sent in a SWAT team – who discovered that the suspected criminal was actually a life-sized cardboard cutout of a person.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 am
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