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Panic Attack

A paramedic went to Michelle Malone’s Hereford, England, home to help her after a panic attack. Then the paramedic told police he’d seen a man with a 10-inch gun there — and 18 cops burst into the place at 1:00 a.m. “I just remember running out of bed after hearing a bang like an earthquake and seeing police pointing guns at Keith, who was up against the wall,” said Malone, 46. She and Keith Abrahams, 44, were hauled from their apartment and questioned at a police station. Officers thoroughly searched the apartment — Malone said they left it “looking like a bomb-site” — but they found no weapons. There was only one explanation: “He had dozed off watching TV in his bedroom,” Malone said. “It must have been the remote.” The couple is suing the police. (AC/London Telegraph) ...Abrahams had a big remote control. The police had too little control.