CLOVIS, N.M. Apr 29, 2005 — A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
(Taken from ABC
Taken from the Register article:
Two people have been hospitalised after a flying BMW inexplicably left the A30 in Basingstoke, Hants, and impacted with the first floor of a nearby house.
The incident - described by a neighbour as “just absolutely incredible” - left a gaping hole in a bedroom wall of Joe and Joyce Harman’s house but, as the couple were asleep in another room at the time of the crash, they escaped unscathed.
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Joyce Harman told the BBC: “It was just horrendous. My husband thought the dog had knocked something over downstairs but as he got to the bedroom door he could see the hole in the wall and all the furniture moved. That’s when we came downstairs and saw the car there.”
Police are trying to work out exactly how the vehicle came to acquire aerobatic capabilities after the driver apparently lost control on a bend of the A30, hit the kerb and “launched through the air, colliding with the first floor of a house in Rainbow Close”, as a Hampshire Police spokeswoman put it.