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Mountain View police evacuated Walmart and cleared the store’s parking lot at 600 Showers Dr. on July 31 after someone called in a false bomb threat. No one was injured.
One of the clerks got a call from a blocked number shortly before 10 p.m. and a store manager took it seriously — calling the police and then beginning to evacuate the store, according to Sgt. Sean Thompson, public information officer with the Mountain View Police Department.
When police arrived, they ordered the parking lot cleared and a few police officers, accompanied by a bomb-sniffing dog, entered the store, Thompson said. The police did not find anything suspicious and the bomb threat was ruled a hoax.
I wonder if this was some scheme to shoplift? Surely nobody was searched as they were evacuated from the building, and mixed in with the masses, someone might be able to walk off with something in a bag or beneath clothing after their friend calls the store with the threat.
I say so because something similar occurred at a company I worked for. A boyfriend of a worker would call in a bomb threat there from time to time, forcing a evacuation so his girlfriend could leave early and be with him. The authorities grew suspicious since bomb-scare calls mainly came in on Fridays, and they eventually caught him.