Who remembers what a typewriter looks like? Anyone? Apparently nobody in Florida remembered what the single page at a time machine looked like.
In Sarasota, Florida on Monday, a suspicious package that forced the closure of several blocks and a city parking facility on Monday morning turned out to be an old-style typewriter. Naturally since no one had seen one in their lifetime, they had no idea what it was.
The bomb squad was called and the package detonated, at which time they discovered it was a typewriter. The investigation continues, since the reason that the typewriter was in the cage is still unknown.
Isn’t Florida filled with old people who wear white loafers and would remember what a typewriter looks like? Couldn’t they have brought in one person over the age of 50 who could have identified this thing? The article mentions that the typewriter was found in a cage that only county officials can access. I bet some poor saps wife made him clean the thing out of the garage and he stashed it there because he wanted to write a novel on it someday. I can’t wait for another 5 years to pass so that we can call out the bomb squad to blow up an Atari or a Neo-Geo that no one regonizes.
