Capitol Police issue ‘all clear’ following Onion tweets, article

Washington Post ^ | September 29, 2011 | David Marino-Nachison

[Immerito]

The U.S. Capitol Police issued a statement calling conditions at the Capitol building “normal” Thursday morning in apparent response to a series of tweets and an article from the satirical web site The Onion.

“It has come to our attention that recents twitter feeds are reporting false information concerning current conditions at the U.S. Capitol. Conditions at the U.S. Capitol are currently normal,” read a press release from Sergeant Kimberly Schneider.

“There is no credibility to these stories or the twitter feeds,” Schneider’s release read. “The U.S. Capitol Police are currently investigating the reporting.”

[Immerito]

There's "no credibility" to the stories because The Onion stories are satire.

[the invisib1e hand]

DC in lockdown when suspicious Tweets found?

[pgyanke]

Exactly. Anyone who subscribes to their Twitter feed should know that.

[TSgt]

The “tweets”

http://twitter.com/#!/TheOnion

[WayneS]

The U.S. Capitol Police are currently investigating the reporting.

UhOh, The editors of TheOnion may soon find themselves charged with "Practicing satire without a license - and not the good kind of satire that makes fun of conservatives, either, but the mean-spirited kind that scares good-hearted regular people"

[cuban leaf]