Knucklehead Award Friday Part Four

We have a rarity- Linked knucklehead awards.

Today's fourth winner is Associated Press. They get the award for the following.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A small black object that was found attached to the bottom of a woman's Jeep and prompted an evacuation of a three-square block area on Friday wasn't a bomb after all. It was a tracking device planted by the woman's husband.

A temporary shelter was set up at the Queen of Peace Church to house the 45 people who had been evacuated, while authorities investigated for more than two hours.

After learning the woman and her husband were going through a divorce, detectives learned that the woman's husband had hired a private investigator. He admitted attaching the tracking device to the woman's Jeep, Maynard said.

Bomb technicians used a robot to confirm the box was indeed a Global Positioning System device, Alachua County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Stephen Maynard said.

The names of the woman and her husband were not released.

Apparently the AP reporter doesn't read the local newspaper. This is the same story as the one I used for today's third Knucklehead. What the heck was this nameless AP reporter doing when he filed the above story? Not his job apparently.

For absent-minded and careless journalism, Associated Press is today's fourth Knucklehead of the day.

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