are you kidding?

check out what happened yesterday at the costco business center in fife! i was in a cpr/first aid class the whole day and we found out about this because our head of safety was in the class.. it was crazy to hear about! what are people thinking?


fife, washington. -- a supposedly harmless game of mock assassination went awry when a package intended to inform a player that he had been killed instead triggered a real-life bomb scare that forced the evacuation of three businesses around the costco store in fife on tuesday morning.

a delivery driver noticed the package with the words "bomb-- you're dead" scrawled across it in a flower bed near the costco entrance around 8:15 a.m., said commander tim floyd with fife police.

as the driver approached, the package began chirping. he immediately called police, who in turn evacuated the costco as well as two nearby car dealerships and brought in the bomb squad.

a robot inspected the device and used its water canon to blow the box apart. no explosive material was found and a search for additional boxes came up empty.

as the bomb squad was finishing up its work, a man walked into the fife police lobby and told an officer he was responsible for putting the simulated bomb in the parking lot.

he told detectives he is part of a group that plays a game where they are assigned missions to assassinate other players with fake weapons, floyd said.

he said that his "target" was one of his friends who works at costco. he had made the fake bomb, which was a box with a motion sensor device inside. he used a magnet to attach it to the bottom of his friend's car while he was at work.

his planned for the device to start chirping when his friend came out to his car, expecting the friend to find the device and read the words "bomb-your dead" and know that he had been assassinated in the game.

but the plan failed when the device didn't stay on the car and ended up in the flower bed near the entrance.

the man has been arrested and booked into the pierce county jail for investigation of intimidation or harassment with an explosive, which is a class c felony.

i took this entry from komo 4's website.. you can view here.