There's something a little ominous about the psychodelic camo used on new vehicle prototypes. So when a black BMW X3 in partial camo was left running outside New York's American Museum of Natural History on Sunday, that was enough to arouse suspicion of another bomb threat in Manhattan.

Evidently, the BMW employee who had been driving it forgot to shut off the vehicle's keyless ignition system. A woman travel her dog evidently spotted the X3 idling just around noon local time and called the police. The scare ended around 2 p.m. when the absent-minded driver returned to reclaim the X3.

The Daily News reports that the driver, Martin Birkmann, was ticketed for idling his vehicle.

Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News via Autoblog