In Ohio, Mel Johnson’s account reached viewers through Cleveland 19, which interviewed the Barberton couple in 2018. They said they had made an incident claim at the store but had not filed a police report at the time. Separately, Kelly Boulay told reporters she cut her finger on a cart handle at an East Windsor, Connecticut, Walmart. Coverage from WCVB and CBS described police and store staff checking the remaining carts and finding no additional blades. That response belongs to the Connecticut case, not the Ohio account.
An unexpected injury during an ordinary shopping trip is unsettling enough without a misleading caption adding urgency. Neither report establishes a coordinated prank, a chain-wide problem, or a newly documented trend. The Connecticut search also did not explain how the object arrived there. These shoppers’ experiences deserve to be taken seriously—but keeping their names, locations, dates, and reporting histories separate prevents concern from becoming misinformation.