Yes, the US is a big place, but things like this usually make the National Wire Services. Little Bitty Torrington made the Wires and Paul Harvey several years ago when 3 of our Police Officers decided to (uh, how do I say this...) play a "joke" on a friend clerking at a 24 hr conviencince store by staging an armed robbery using the Police Departments assault rifle....stuff can be covered up very well by the local agencies.