‘Bomb threat’ at a Home Depot turned out to be a man warning others about how badly he needed to use the restroom

Police were called to a Wichita, Kansas Home Depot after it was believed that a man was making a bomb threat in the home improvement store.

Sedgwick County Communications recently released the 911 audio, in which the caller tells the operator that someone may have made a bomb threat, according to KWCH.

“We just had a customer here made what may have been a bomb threat,” the caller said. “He said, uh, somebody told me there’s a bomb in here and you need to leave the building. He said it three times.”

Staff was alerted to the possible “bomb threat” after a person overheard the man in the store’s restroom. However, authorities learned that the threat was actually a euphemism used by a man who really had to use the bathroom.

“You all need to get out of here because I’m fixin’ to blow it up,” the man allegedly said. Continue Reading