The City of Tullahoma has responded to a Facebook post from a satire or fake news site that claims armed men in a helicopter landed at the Tullahoma Airport. This is not true and did not happen.
Please do not share that post or perpetuate an unfounded rumor that can have dangerous consequences.
While we enjoy satire and can take it when people have fun at our expense, posts like these cross a line into potentially dangerous territory. When these posts are spread, unfounded calls to emergency services mount obstacles for people with real emergencies or issues needing law enforcement. This is no longer satire at this stage.
Again, there was no armed incident involving a helicopter at the airport.
This is the second time that the city has been forced to respond because of fake information from the satire page. The first was when the site posted that the city was allowing skinny dipping in the city pool, which was also fake.
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