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Fri December 9, 2011
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I Wonder Why ... ?

Are we prone to mass hysteria here in the NW?

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The terror that gripped the Northwest in 1954 came to be called the Windshield Pitting Incident.

Everyone went a little crazy. Police were called, road blocks set up.

It’s 1954, early spring, and tiny chips, pits and dings are popping up on car windshields throughout the Puget Sound region at an alarming rate. Suddenly, communities from Anacortes to Tacoma are in the grip of a textbook case of mass hysteria. (In fact, it is in the textbooks.)

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