
Listen, not everyone is up on the sickest trends in powder-throwing at sports games.
And even if you are—I suppose you’d rather be safe than sorry, say, like, I dunno, if it were anthrax or something.
Police on the University of Central Florida campus were suspicious of a young man who walked into a classroom and threw up a bunch of powder, so they went on what must have been a hilarious-for-everybody manhunt:
It even caused an evacuation of a school building:
Here is where it starts to get really good:
To be fair to the police, these pranksters were reaching pret-ty far back into the archives for this one—LeBron stopped doing the chalk toss thing way back in 2014—and school safety has become a prominent issue in the wake of the Parkland shootings. So it does indeed seem like they were going the better safe than sorry route.
But also:
A student said the man yelled, “I’m taking my talents elsewhere. I’m going to Miami,” as he threw the powder.
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