On November 5th, the Daily Mail reported that, “Students in ‘Weird Science’ Halloween party [were] arrested under anti-terror laws.“

A group of students had their ‘Mad Scientist’ party brought to an abrupt end when police mistook them for terrorists. The private party, held in Hackney, north London, was organised by a group of friends dressed in white laboratory coats and wigs, who put on a display of theatrical ‘experiments’ to entertain guests. But when police entered the building for a routine check in the early hours of Sunday morning, they discovered scientific debris and plastic skeletons and mistook it for terrorist paraphernalia or drug-making equipment.

You can read the Full Article online. Thanks to a Mr Kevin DiVico for bringing this to our attention!