It all started Friday evening with a story posted on the Web sites of TV stations Fox59 and WTTV Channel 4 (both stations share the same newsroom operation).

Unnamed sources were used to report that the FBI has informed a Fishers family they are on a list of potential ISIS targets.  Later in the evening, Fishers Police Department spokesman Tom Weger was quoted by several TV news operations as confirming that the FBI had issued such a warning to a local family.

The FBI did not comment specifically on the Fishers part of the story, only issuing a general statement about how the agency makes notifications once such information is discovered through their investigations.

WTHR sent reporter Matt McCutheon to the July 2nd Fishers Farmers Market, asking locals to comment on the story.   The report gave some people pause, but the crowd at the Farmers Market was about the same as always.

We need to put these sorts of stories in the proper perspective.  When terrorists attacked a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, it was located in an upper class area of town, near foreign embassies.  Bottom line, such an attack could happen anytime, anywhere.

The Washington Post published a story last year reminding us that we are more likely to be fatally crushed by our own furniture at home than be killed in a terrorist attack.  In other words, it’s not likely.

However, we should all be reasonably aware of what is going on around us.  To repeat the mantra I hear many times from local police, if you see something, say something.  It may be meaningless, but if it looks suspicious, let the professionals know and they can make that determination.

Terrorism can happen anywhere, anytime.  Terrorists only succeed if we allow ourselves to be terrorized for no good reason.