If it looks like a city water inspector, and it sounds like a city water
inspector, shut the door. That public service announcement comes via the
police department in Ontario, Ore., where a man and a woman have been
reportedly accosting people at home in order to ... well, what they were
there for isn't quite clear yet. But whatever their purpose, the couple
claimed to be from the office of "Quality Control" and were testing water
for the city.
The thing is, Ontario doesn't actually test water in its citizens' homes.
That, and the van—complete with a phony logo—that these "water testers"
drove had California plates.
Calls to the Ontario police by Boise Weekly were not immediately
returned. Therefore, this author is left the unfortunate task of pointing
out something that could very well cause great panic in sleepy southwest
Idaho. This situation is eerily—I might add terrifyingly—reminiscent of that
scene in Ghostbusters 2 where Egon and Ray pose as city sewer
workers, and they discover that a giant river of haunted slime is running
through an old subway tunnel to the secret lair of the ghost of 16th century
Moldavian warlord Vigo the Carpathian.
Just saying, is all.
That, and having seen how the movie ends, I won't be stopping any time
soon at that rest stop along I-84 in Ontario.
