"Maybe I'm hung up on the calls to LE reporting suspicios packages. The hilarity of that just goes right over my head."
Who made those calls remains to be seen, again, if that was part of the "prank", it should be dealt with.
So, if it wasn't the pranksters making the calls it's ok? How about after the first report of a suspicious package at such and such location, the jokesters alert LE to their cleverness? Or after the second one, or third, or fourth, etc.????