A CITY centre hotel was evacuated today after a designer perfume bottle, shaped like a bundle of TNT, was mistaken for a bomb. Staff at the Hilton Hotel in Tower Street called police at 9.20am after the ‘suspicious package’ was found in the ladies toilets.
— Read more at "Dynamite" perfume bottle causes bomb scare at York hotel at the UK's York Press.
Sue Stenhouse spends her days figuring out how Rhode Island officials should calmly deal with disaster. But when a rat scurried through her office, her natural response was to jump on a chair, snap it with rubber bands and threaten to spritz it with Obsession.
— From Eek! Rats giving RI Statehouse staffers a scare at NPR.
The defendants then swerved into the victims' car and tried to run it off the road, court papers said. One of the women threw a perfume bottle that shattered the victims' rear windshield, the filings said.
— From Perfume bottle goes flying in on-the-road assault in Salt Lake City at The Salt Lake Tribune.
A report of a man waving a gun inside Goodwill, 904 S. Main St., resulted in a Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department deputy taking the man into custody...The man was released after a brief investigation revealed the suspect took a pistol-shaped perfume bottle out of a box, according to the police report.
— From Man questioned about perfume bottle 'gun' at fdlreporter.
Sheriff's officials said a deputy plans to be back on duty Wednesday after a woman she was trying to arrest broke her nose with her purse. Sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said the purse the 48-year-old woman swung Tuesday evening contained a large bottle of perfume and weighed more than three pounds.
— From Ariz. woman allegedly woman whacks deputy with purse containing perfume bottle, breaks nose at the Star Tribune.
