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Planet Fitness Evacuated After WiFi Network Named 'Remote Detonator' Causes Scare (windsorstar.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the false-alarm dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windsor Star: A Michigan gym patron looking for a Wi-Fi connection found one named "remote detonator," prompting an evacuation and precautionary search of the facility by a bomb-sniffing dog. The Saginaw News reports nothing was found in the search Sunday at Planet Fitness in Saginaw Township, about 85 miles (140 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Saginaw Township police Chief Donald Pussehl says the patron brought the Wi-Fi connection's name to the attention of a manager, who evacuated the building and called police. The gym was closed for about three hours as police responded. Pussehl says there's "no crime or threat," so no charges are expected. He notes people often have odd names for WiFi connections. Planet Fitness says the manager was following company procedure for when there's suspicion about a safety issue.

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  1. Really? People need to relax and grow up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you over react to every non-incident the cost of reacting exceeds the damage of all the real incidents combined. I've got no idea what you people think "remote detonator" is actually going to do- but there is zero threat here and given the cops apparently agree you need to learn to relax. And cops *ALWAYS* over react.

  2. Re:oh, the jokes.... by Hugh+Jorgen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Daddy is a little uptight...

  3. Scared silly little humans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People are so paranoid these days its ridiculous. Paranoid over germs, the result they created super germs. Paranoid over war, they created super weapons. Children brought up completely shielded from reality that cant cope in the real world... We are our own worst nightmare.

  4. Good Cop, Have a Donut by bestweasel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm cheered by Chief Pussehl's reaction. No SWAT team, no one got shot or arrested, he didn't call for new laws, he didn't even say it was a bad idea to call your wifi "Remote Detonator".

  5. Re:oh, the jokes.... by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you didn't praise him for using a name from War-games, you should go to YOUR room without supper.

    Tell him the cool people all know what he did and it was awesome.

    --
    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
  6. What next? by Todd+Knarr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What next, evacuating an entire shopping mall because someone wrote "Bomb" on a sticky note and slapped it on a garbage can?