What sounded at first like popping balloons inside a family's home in Fenton ended up being a robotic vacuum on fire after its lithium batteries combusted.
"Not everyone who is interested in selling can be bought out because there is limited funding available," the county's division director of planning and zoning said.
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri sent an email to the troop last month threatening legal action if they continued to sell the bracelets, according to CAIR.