Police were called to a central Pennsylvania office building after someone mistakenly thought a photographer’s tripod was a gun.
LNP reports the incident happened about 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Griest Building in Lancaster.
The caller thought a machine gun was carried into the building, so police conducted a floor-by-floor search only to find the photographer and her tripod.
Employees at Industrial Resolution, a software firm in the building, took a photo of the responding officers and the photographer, who mugged for the camera. The company posted the image on its Facebook page.
Lancaster police Lt. Todd Umstead says the caller did the right thing that that police would “much rather respond to a call like this” and find nothing than not get a call when someone really has a gun.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Too bad they didn’t show the photographer’s tripod in the picture. Three cheers for the caller and the officers who responded.
It’s a shame that they didn’t show the tripod in the phot., but thank you to the person that called it in and also to the offficers that responnded to the call not knowing what they might encounter.
It’s a shame that they didn’t show the tripod in the phot., but thank you to the person that called it in and also to the offficers that responnded to the call not knowing what they might encounter.
that happened in scranton pa some time over the weekend heard it on news police checked it out charged the owner with tress-passing nothing here just keep moving