Of course, other news agencies couldn't let this single station and affiliates go with the Story Of The Century (for this week at least) and ran their own spin.
That didn't matter to most people. They saw the snippet (the first fifteen minutes) before helicopters surrounded the one news chopper.
Plans were derailed as everyone (including the still raging newswoman from the OTHER newschopper) who had had direct contact with the boy was isolated, forced into an area where they could be isolated, sprayed down with a disinfecting foam from high pressure hoses, and then taken by people in HAZMAT costumes to nice little areas where they could be quarantined.
Since this all was televised, there were protests. The Japanese embassy protested holding one of their citizens. News channels protested the blackout. People watching protested the whole procedure. Flat Earthists protested the lies about extraterrestrials and space travel. Anti-government forces complained about the government involvement. The CDC and NASA complained about the damage already done/risked and that air flights were still going in and out of the area. This prompted flights to be shut down, which (as one might guess) sparked MORE protests.
Various lawyers started taking sides, throwing out still further interpretations and innuendo, further confusing the issues involved.
"Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" summed up one newscaster with a fondness for old movies.
Except that the United States government had these plans ready in advance for decades. Their plans unfortunately were going the same route as the plans of various others since the time of Sun Tzu though. As doors opened in the vans, it was discovered that the one containing a Japanese boy was mysteriously empty. The three-inch thick steel reinforced floor had a mysteriously peeled-back looking section. With finger marks.
Of course, the government saying the boy had ESCAPED was greeted with derision from everyone from the man in the street to Kim Il-Sung of North Korea. The demands that the US Government release someone they no longer had further increased the confusion factor.
As for Ranma, he was:
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