Upsetting

This morning while perusing the news the headline 'Teen Finds Dog's Head in a Gift-Wrapped Box' struck me as worth a click.
The short of it is that a 17 year old girl in St. Paul lost her Australian Sheppard and later its head was delivered to her house in a gift-wrapped box with a pack of batteries, a box of chocolates and a note that read "Congratulations Crystal. This side up. Batteries included."
Now, the part of the article that really interested me wasn't the scary awful dog head part, it was that "homicide investigators were looking into the case because of the "implied" terroristic [sic] threat."
I don't think that the fine people of St. Paul understand terrorist threats. Terrorists no, hot-dish yes.