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Masked driver arrested after waving video game rifle at UMD
Original: Masked driver on UMD campus arrested after waving video game rifle
Police at the University of Maryland arrested a masked driver who was waving a rifle on campus. The weapon turned out to be a video game prop rather than a real firearm, but the incident triggered an armed-suspect response because a masked person brandishing what looked like a gun naturally raised fears of a campus shooting.
Why now: Any report of a masked armed person on a US campus raises immediate fears of a shooting, and the twist that the rifle was a video game prop adds to the attention
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