Seattle TV Host Causes Evacuation After Sending Bobblehead Doll Of Himself To State Official

A bomb technician discovered a suspicious package that contained a “Schrammie” bobblehead doll that the irritant host awards to public officials for perceived errors.

The package, sent by an intern at KOMO-TV in Seattle, was addressed to Department of Corrections Secretary Harold Clarke at the department’s headquarters in this town near Olympia.

It didn’t have a return address and the mailing label was handwritten. It also had stains on the outside, which could have indicated that the item inside had leaked, said Washington State Patrol Sgt. Ted DeHart.

“It had the classic indicators of a suspicious package,” DeHart said.

The building’s 350 employees were evacuated for about 45 minutes Friday after the package was found in the mailroom.

A bomb technician from the State Patrol who opened the box found a “Schrammie,” which television commentator Ken Schram hands out to public officials he thinks have done wrong.

“To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that the bomb squad was called in when we sent a `Schrammie,’” said Jimm Brown, a KOMO spokesman.

Brown said Schram sent the doll to Clarke because he was upset about the announcement earlier this year that the state had released 83 felons from jails early.

“I’m going to have to wind up giving myself a `Schrammie,’ for crying out loud,” Schram said.

JOKESTARTERS:

• Finally, we have official, tangible proof that Ken Schram bombs.
• After further investigation, it was found that the mysterious stains on the outside of the box were from tears cried by John Carlson, a fellow KOMO-TV host (that this reporter went to high school with…).
• I used to work on a local comedy show in Seattle called “Almost Live!” and Schrammie’s show was our competition, hence the deep-seated hostility.
• Hey, at least it wasn’t a bobblehead of John Carlson. They would’ve evacuated everyone who didn’t believe in Creationism then, which would be everybody west of the Cascade Mountains…

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I