A Bank of America employee misinterpreted a faulty fax about a bank promotion as a bomb threat Wednesday, leading authorities to evacuate more than a dozen neighboring businesses.
The fax from a marketing group about a Bank of America small business promotion contained images of a lighted match and a bomb with a fuse, bank spokesman Ernesto Anguilla said. But words explaining the promotion did not transmit.
“The fax machine malfunctioned, so a partial image came through that looked somewhat suspicious,” Anguilla said.
Authorities eventually learned from Bank of America security officials that it was a false alarm.
I wonder who got to tell the coppers it was a false alarm? Some towns have pretty sticky regulations about calling out the troops – by mistake.
