SPOKANE -- We get a lot of strange pictures emailed into KREM.com. But a few that were submitted today piqued our interest -- but we couldn't uncover a thing to explain what happened.
A couple of calls came into the newsroom this morning around 11:45 a.m. from viewers who saw what looked like a scene right out of a movie on East Sprague in Spokane Valley: hundreds of papers swirling in the air and flying all over the road.
Viewer Sara Cesal says she first spotted the papers west of Argonne, and they extended all the way to Thierman. She took several pictures of the scattered mess on Sprague near Sargent Road.
Usually something like this is an attempt at advertising. There are even laws that prevent that kind of distribution because ultimately, it is litter.
KREM 2 News sent a photographer to investigate. But as it goes in news sometimes, as soon as he got there it was gone, all cleaned up. Even Cesal tried to investigate. According to her, there were "a dozen men on each side of the road scrambling to pick up the paper." But no one would explain what it was. No one seemed to know how it got there, or who it may have belonged to. And no one (that we know of) saw what was on that paper.
So maybe we'll never know -- was this an intentional advertising stunt or did someone just lose a load of paper in the wind?
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