It was a real call - a suspicious package turned up at the Alltel store in the Stadium Mall in Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon. Store employees called police - and Mt. Pleasant police called in the bomb squad.
The area in front of a half-dozen stores, including the Kopy Korner, the Book Mark, Charter Communications and the Alltel store, was cordoned off. The stores were evacuated.

Experts from the bomb squad brought in a portable, hand-held X-ray machine to look at the suspicious package - which turned out to be harmless. The screen on the laptap computer showed a bunch of random electronic parts - nothing that would blow up.
Case closed.