A Fallout: New Vegas cosplayer's Pringles cans were mistaken for a bomb earlier this week in Grande Prairie, Canada. The resulting response included no less than eight police officers.
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A British teenager has been charged with various offences relating to a series of cyber-attacks across four continents, as well as fake bomb threats made against US airlines on social media.
Newsroom staff at ninemsn, which is co-owned by Microsoft, called in the bomb squad to deal with a safe that beeped when they tried to open it, but which only contained a copy of new game Watch Dogs.