Rose McGowan Victimized by Smoke Bomb Prank in NYC Restaurant

Actress Rose McGowan was sent running along with other patrons at a Greenwich Village restaurant Friday night when someone threw a smoke bomb into the crowded establishment.

McGowan, of "Planet Terror" and "Charmed," was dining at Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue near West Houston Street Friday evening when the assailant chucked the grenade-size smoke bomb into the restaurant, the New York Daily News reported.

McGowan and others took to social media to express shock over the incident.

Someone just threw two red smoke bombs into the restaurant I was eating in. Eyes are burning. #NYCWHAT

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 10, 2014

Man climbs out of a grate and tossing a smoke bomb at a crowd of people eating at a Greenwich village restaurant. pic.twitter.com/SZWzrN2x07

— Carolina Leid (@CarolinaLeid7) October 11, 2014

McGowan would later tell the website Gossip Cop that she was dining with a friend and her friend's 4-year-old son when she got "lost in the red smoke."

"My eyes still hurt," the actress said. "I thought it was a [real] bomb."

One restaurant employee told the Daily News that the smoke bomb initially caused chaos among customers.

"It was a big one . . . about the size of a grenade," the employee said. "Everybody panicked and half the people ran out. I'm just glad it wasn’t anything explosive."

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