A Halloween prop left behind by a young man, who had dressed up as a suicide bomber, sparked a bomb scare in Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The package, with wires sticking out of it, was found on a car parked outside the Alrek student dormitory the morning-after the Halloween.

After the suspicious package was reported to the police, the dormitory and the surrouncing area surrounding were evacuated and bomb experts from Oslo summoned. The bomb squad flew 185 miles by helicopter to assess the threat.

The young man who made the fake device for a Halloween party and then left it behind heard it had been found and phoned the police.

"He did not intend for it to be a bomb threat," Asbjoern Andersen of the Bergen police told the AP. "He dressed up as a suicide bomber for Halloween, and called us immediately when he realized the 'device' was his."

Andersen said the prankster, whose name was withheld, had been questioned by police, but wasn't sure what action, if any, might be taken against him.