Who's crying now? This 'suspicious package' story took an unexpected — and amazing — turn

Today’s “suspicious package” news comes to you from Charlotte, North Carolina:

Police investigating reports of a suspicious package in uptown Charlotte https://t.co/eB33PFsLEx

— CBS 17 (@WNCN) October 30, 2018

More from WBTV:

Employees in the mail room notified police who cleared the scene shutting down roads. A K-9 unit was also deployed to the scene, police say.

The initial discovery sparked an investigation causing the Duke Energy building to be evacuated and road closures in the area.

The investigation closed roads in the areas surrounding S Tryon Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

If you’re thinking “Wow! This must’ve been one hell of a package!” then you’re right. It was:

UPDATE: Charlotte police respond to suspicious package, determine it was a cassette tape https://t.co/eB33PFsLEx

— CBS 17 (@WNCN) October 30, 2018

Not just any cassette tape, though. This one was special:

UPDATE: It was a Journey cassette tape. https://t.co/3YhCu1jLs9

— CBS 17 (@WNCN) October 30, 2018

Is terrorism by power ballad a thing? It should be a thing.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the year 2018: pic.twitter.com/GLspdAANj5

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) October 30, 2018

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Amazing.

Breaking: South Detroit city boy in custody.

— The Red-Headed Libertarian (@TRHLofficial) October 30, 2018

They apprehended the suspect on a train around midnight

— ? Spooky Scary Sullivan ? (@meijinsan) October 30, 2018

The train was goin' anywhere, so it was hard to track.

— DeanLogic ♎ (@DeanLogic) October 30, 2018

It never ends…it goes on and on and on and on

— Adam Shaw (@AdamShawNY) October 30, 2018

Don’t stop believin’. Or, put another way:

Suspicious package advice:

Don’t. Stop. Be leaving.

— DahPick (@DahPick) October 30, 2018

Snort!