As Twitchy reported, a man wearing a surgical mask and an animal onesie caused the evacuation of a Baltimore TV station Thursday afternoon when he claimed to have a bomb. Oh, and there were guns and robots and possibly a video on a flash drive.
BREAKING NEWS: Man in panda suit shot after bomb threat at Baltimore Fox TV station https://t.co/R4MCPggUje It's come to this.
— Brian Tracey (@brian_tracey) April 28, 2016
As bizarre as the “man in panda suit” story is, it looks even stranger when you watch it unfold like this:
This is a YouTube livestream of a Periscope embed on Twitter showing a video that a guy captured on his smart phone. pic.twitter.com/zgxWywUMcB
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) April 28, 2016
Lucky you: You get the whole package wrapped up in an embedded tweet of a screen capture. Anyone remember the old TV series (and before that, the even older radio show) “You Are There”? This is not that. At all.
@nickmartin Welcome to the future!
— DC Heavy Metal (@MetalChris) April 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/JonnieBratwurst/status/725776048957325312
@nickmartin @librab103 Is this like a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma thing or…
— dj farrenstock (@tackadjdg) April 28, 2016
@tackadjdg @librab103 Yes, basically.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) April 28, 2016
@nickmartin @AdamWeinstein Stream-ception
— Southey Blanton (@southey) April 28, 2016
@nickmartin @boanus scan of a printout of a jpeg
— Bob Out of Hell ?☭ (@AlmightyBoob) April 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/DukeOfVinings/status/725779738757763072
@nickmartin you killed the Internet.
— BaltimoreGal ??✊??♿️?️???♈️? (@BaltimoreGal) April 28, 2016
@BaltimoreGal It was dead before I got here, I swear.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) April 28, 2016
@nickmartin that's what that all say.
— BaltimoreGal ??✊??♿️?️???♈️? (@BaltimoreGal) April 28, 2016
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