A Summary Of Man In Animal Costume

On April 28, 2016, CBS Network New York published an article titled Man in Animal Costume Shot Outside Baltimore TV Station After Claiming to Have Bomb. In Baltimore, a man wearing a strange animal suit claimed to have a bomb and was shot soon after. A 25 year old man walked into the lobby of WBFF on Baltimore’s TV Hill wearing a suit. The Police thought it was a panda costume, but employees saw it as a hedgehog. He handed the workers a flash drive and told them he wanted the station to play its contents on live television. He claimed to have a bomb and an important message that everyone needed to hear. A security guard sounded an alarm, and before long the building was surrounded by the police, bomb squad, and SWAT team. The man walked out
of the building and refused to obey orders to show his hands. He received several gunshots because of it. The police later discovered that the “bomb” they were concerned with was actually a flotation device with a fire extinguisher mother board and a wire set up to look like a detonator. No other people were harmed during the incident. This affects the United States because many people threaten public places for no valid reason. These people do ridiculous things, and get severely punished for it. A solution to this problem could be to report anything suspicious, just as the security guard did in this situation so that the police can come in and stop the threat, even if it turns out to be a fraud.