This is through-the-looking-glass type stuff, here. While everyone was going helter skelter about “that thing” at the beginning of the month, the only thing that could have presented a danger that day turns out to’ve been even less of a thing than what the other “thing” was:

A carpenter at Tufts-New England Medical Center who allegedly planted a phony pipe bomb as a prank against a coworker – forcing a frantic evacuation as cops responded to unrelated hoax devices throughout the city – was slapped with a two-week job suspension but faces no criminal charges, the Herald has learned.

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Yesterday a NEMC spokeswoman, Brooke Tyson Hynes, said that the pipe bomb was part of ongoing pranks between hospital workers.

Weird.