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On a warm Saturday in July 2019, a 911 caller reported a disturbance at 24th and Colfax in south Minneapolis: a group of 100-some people in the street, not letting vehicles pass.
The incident soon appeared on a local police scanner Facebook page, stirring fear of a fomenting protest. Finally, one amateur sleuth suggested that perhaps it was just the annual Wedge neighborhood cat tour and posted a link to the event page.
Commenters pounced: I thought surely this is an article from the Onion. Settle down, neighbors! Its [sic] hard to imagine anything less threatening than the Wedge Cat Tour, folks.