My brother fixes diamonds for a living; one night two weeks ago someone left a large duffel bag out front with some electronic thing (?) sticking out of the top.
That morning the police had everything blocked off, cops posted all around the building; finally a bomb-squad hazmat-suit guy walks up, cuts a hole in the side of it (ya don't use the zipper)... and... holy shit, it's... a cooler full of beer. The electronic thing was some fan attached to the cooler.
Drunks? Terrorists? Anyway nobody made any phone threats + it stayed out of the news.
It's fucked up if all this shit is unrelated. Not that I care about WalMarts or Dillons but it's a definite case of phone abuse.
Kolko told the AP that the FBI was looking into whether calls were coming in from overseas. They are cooperating with local authorities in each city.