Typewriter Causes Street Closure as "No One Knows What They Look Like Any Longer"

In Sarasota, Florida on Monday, a suspicious package that forced the closure of several blocks and a city parking facility on Monday morning turned out to be an old-style typewriter. Naturally since no one had seen one in their lifetime, they had no idea what it was.

Seriously, though, it looked like a briefcase and it was found inside a locked cage under a first-floor stairwell landing in a county parking facility on Ringling Boulevard. Since only county officials have keys to that particular cage, it was doubly suspicious.

The bomb squad was called and the package detonated, at which time they discovered it was a typewriter. The investigation continues, since the reason that the typewriter was in the cage is still unknown.

Too bad, it may have been one of the last of its kind ...