[John H K]

Just as last Fall where you had a "white powder" scare every few hours or so, you're going to see gunshot scares and a FR thread on it every few hours or so, now. Firecrackers, Backfires, etc.

[Dog Gone]

It's very reminiscent of the white powder scares, and even the crazy reports on 9/11 of a bomb going off at the State Department and nine more hijacked planes.

In addition to false alarms (which this appears to be), you have the general background shootings that make DC famous.

It's completely understandable and predictable that this would happen, especially since the real sniper attacks are continuing.

I'm thankful that we're not seeing copycat crimes across the country. It's bad enough that we have one major metropolitan area hyperventilating.