14 DAY TRIAL // A less than funny prank took place last night in the restaurant Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue, New York. An unknown man thought it would be hilarious to throw a grenade-shaped smoke bomb in the restaurant, which was full of diners at the time, and run away. Among those eating there at the time was actress Rose McGowan.
The New York Daily News claims that the restaurant in Greenwich Village was packed at the time of the “attack” and that the thick red smoke left diners scrambling out of the eatery, gasping for air. It's also mentioned that the unknown prankster emerged out of a subway service grate just outside the bar at around 5:30 pm and chucked the explosive device into the restaurant.
It didn't take too long for thick red smoke to engulf the entire restaurant. One employee is quoted as saying about the smoke bomb that “it was a big one … about the size of a grenade,” adding that “everybody panicked and half the people ran out.”
Rose McGowan was surprised in the attack, was left with burning eyes from the smoke
Actress Rose McGowan just happened to be there at the time of the weird attack and tweeted about the incident later, claiming that she was affected by it, with her eyes still burning from the smoke. She later told the press that, at the time, she thought it was a real bomb and that her boyfriend's 4-year-old son got lost for a few moments in the thick smoke after the explosion.
An eyewitness told the Daily Mail that the waiters looked really shocked, but that one of them eventually picked up the device and threw it in the street, where it continued to smoke for a while before it was depleted.
Police said no one was hurt but the suspect is still at large
The police came on the scene and closed the restaurant off to the public. They later claimed that there were no injuries reported. They also said that the man who threw the bomb had not been identified and remained at large as of Friday night.
Employees of the restaurant think that whoever it was, would have had to be very determined to pull the prank in order to be able to exit the subway through the maintenance grate. “He would have had to walk for awhile,” one said, pointing out that he must have entered the train lines at Spring Street or W. 4th stations and then walked the rest of the way in order to pop out at the service grate.
The restaurant was aired after the incident and a couple of hours later it was reopened to the public, sometime around 9 pm.