Local businesses in the strip mall adjoining the Ashland, MA Bank of America are grumbling about lost revenue and disruption because the bank overreacted to some bad clip art on an internal memo that was, unfortunately, truncated so that it looked like a “bomb threat” and not like a “corporate countdown” team-building document.
 Also, no children were harmed in the evacuation of the strip mall.
Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores – The Boston Globe
A day-care center with about 30 children and more than a dozen small businesses in Ledgemere Plaza on Eliot Street were evacuated for about three hours after bank branch managers received a fax with images of a crude timer and a hand lighting a bomb, Ashland police Chief Scott Rohmer said. Bank employees told police a suspicious package had arrived around the same time, elevating their fears.
Bank security personnel later determined that a fax machine at the corporate office left off the text alerting employees to Small Business Commitment Week in June, including the words, “The Countdown Begins,” above the bomb.
