Yeah, great. People laying flour and marking arrows with chalk for a goof running event—something they’ve done plenty of times, coast-to-coast—gets them felony charges in Connecticut.

Beer runners’ trail a recipe for trouble

Because, as we all know, the preferred delivery method for anthrax is by dumping a “white, powdery substance” in an Ikea parking lot.

Here’s the quote from the Mayor’s office:

“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said. “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”

Oh crap, we gotta worry about something more serious than terrorists, now? Zombie aliens? Bioagents that turn oil into mad cow disease? Sharks with freakin’ laser beams on their heads?