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The Duluth gun caper

Posted at 12:36 PM on July 6, 2010 by Bob Collins
Filed under: Crime and Justice

The unanswered question in Duluth today is: "How on earth did someone mistake a squirt gun for a real gun?

According to the Duluth News Tribune, at least seven Duluth Police Department squad cars stopped a woman in her car after someone reported she was brandishing a gun. But it turned out to be a Super Soaker, the paper says.

At least seven Duluth Police Department squads were involved in a traffic stop on Superior Street at Seventh Avenue West on Monday afternoon on a report of a male in a car brandishing a gun -- but it turned out to be a Super Soaker squirt gun.

You can't blame the cops. All they knew was that someone had a gun. But you can wonder what the person calling the cops was thinking.

This is a real gun: