Imagine you’re a senior sales executive from Bismark, North Dakota who earned a trip to Boston to attend the big trade show because you sold the most Rocky Mountain Oyster harvesters in the Northern West States region for your employer, the king of Rocky Mountain Oyster harvester manufacturers, and you’re gussying yourself up for the industry mixer when–BAM!–a squad of armed officers bust through your hotel door and slap the cuffs on you. And that’s before you even downloaded Grindr.
Well, that’s what happened to some unwitting tourist in Boston Tuesday afternoon–we admittedly took some editorial license about his backstory–when a team of Defense Department enforcement officers, working with the Boston office of the FBI, entered the wrong hotel room and detained the unwitting innocent occupant, according to Politico.
In another room, a role-player had been waiting for the raid. “Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” an FBI official said in a written statement. “Thankfully nobody was injured.” Boston Police were paged from a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts to investigate and confirm that it was, in fact, a training exercise.