Oh my.

Via NYDN:

Police sealed off, evacuated and then canceled a Germany-Netherlands soccer game in Hanover Tuesday night after finding “serious” signs of an imminent terror attack, officials said.

The friendly game wasn’t even supposed to start for more than two hours when authorities sealed off the HDI-Arena, apparently due to a “suspicious object,” according to Associated Press sports reporter Ciarán Fahey.

Fahey tweeted from the scene that police eventually let cheering fans into the stadium, which was crawling with machine gun-toting cops.

But police then ushered everyone outside, and later said the game was called off, without official explanation.

Authorities later said they found concrete plans for a terror strike.

“There were serious plans to bring something to explode,” police chief Volker Kluwe said.

The German newspaperKreiszeitung reported officials found an ambulance filled with explosives outside the stadium.

Update:

Despite reports from the police that there were serious plans to explode something and reports that appear to have come from the police that an ambulance packed with explosives had been found, media is now reporting there was nothing.

How do you go from saying ‘serious plan to explode something’ and saying ambulance found with explosives, to ‘oops my bad’, not really? In addition to cancelling and evacuating the stadium?