Overland Park Police Calm Suburbanites Mistaking Popping Balloons For Gunfire

Right now we feature more follow-up on Golden Ghetto weekend shenanigans.

To wit . . .

CREDIT TO OVERLAND PARK PO-PO FOR KEEPING JOCO HOUSEWIVES CALM AMID POPPING BALLOONS!!!

 Again . . .

This kind of news should encourage our suburbanite friends when real trouble is so far away that middle-class white ladies have to invent scary threats. 

Forgive our snark . . . But there is no longer any place left in this world were a person can find total respite from loud noises and rambunctious youngsters.

Special thanks to BEST & BRIGHTEST TKC READERS for sharing a laugh with us about this imagined crisis that has been resolved, explained and might even help us to feel a bit safer . . .  

Firefighters from Overland Park and Leawood were called to respond to the business with Johnson County Med-Act paramedics on the same reports of a possible shooting.

Those units were told to stage in the area of the call until police could confirm it was safe to approach the scene.

“Initially, it was believed to be a shooting inside the building; the investigation revealed the sounds were from balloons popping during a physical altercation,” Officer John Lacy, an Overland Park Police spokesperson, told the Post via an email Monday morning. “There was no shooting at this location.”

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Police: Popping balloons prompted shooting calls at OP business

Overland Park Police say that a fight and popping balloons sparked 911 calls reporting a shooting at an indoor entertainment complex Saturday evening.