Posted on 08/22/2007 8:49:09 AM PDT by null and void
Reports of a suspicious package found in a passenger area of one of the ferries.
(One day after the local papers refused to publish pictures of suspicous men, because they looked middle eastern)...
The fig-leaf the used was that these suspiciously acting men had a right to privacy, as they hadn't actually been accused of any crime.
Seattle lib-uh-rhuls are even dumber than San Fransisco lib-uh-ruhls. Hard to imagine, but apparently true...
Something similar happened just North in BC.
Bomb threat shuts B.C. ferry terminals
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/07/28/bc-ferries-threat.html
My father in law was stuck in Vancouver while the threat was checked out.
Remember these guys actually have to destroy anyone or anything to get the job done, they just need to scare people and bring movement to a halt.
The Seattle Times published the photos. After a day’s delay...
I’m certainly no expert but they seem to match the profile of the 9/11 hijackers.
KNAVE!
that's my step-daughter.
Ummmm, Oh, Uh....
Hi, Marty!
*waving*
Could these folk in the picture be that Norwegian named Burnaby Bjoerndalen and his cousin Floskubak Ljoekelsoey. If so, they own a wild caught salmon farm about ninety miles Southwest of Phrump, Nevada in Death Valley. They also have a Citroen dealership out there.
SEATTLE (AP) — This bong threat was legitimate.
The FBI has confirmed that a suspicious package that idled one of the largest ferries in the Washington state fleet for about an hour Wednesday morning was actually a water-pipe typically used for smoking marijuana.
“Someone found a bong,” said David Gomez, FBI assistant special agent in charge.
The device was found in a men’s restroom of the 460-foot ferry Puyallup at the height of the morning commute.
The ferry had just been emptied of cars and passengers after arriving at Colman Dock from Bainbridge Island about 8 a.m. when the package was found, said Marta Coursey, a spokeswoman for the ferry system.
State Patrol Sgt. Craig H. Johnson would only say the device was a “nonhazardous, nonexplosive item,” adding investigators carried it off the ferry for further examination.
No arrests were made and no identified individuals were being sought, but “we’d like to find the person who left it there,” Johnson said.
Following a search and examination by State Patrol troopers, the 2,500-passenger, 202-vehicle ferry was cleared to resume service about 9 a.m., Coursey said.
During the shutdown, service on the Seattle-Bainbridge and Seattle-Bremerton runs was maintained on the terminal’s other main slip.
Coursey said two Seattle-Bainbridge runs were canceled during the package scare.
The scare came amid heightened security in the ferry system following reports of “suspicious behavior” in recent weeks. On Monday the FBI released photographs of two men who were described as showing unusual interest in the vessels, Agent Roberta A. Burroughs said.
The FBI would not release further details of the men’s behavior, Burroughs said.
“It appeared to the people that reported it to us that the men seemed to have an undue interest in the workings of the ferry and the ferry terminal,” she said.
Several ferry employees and passengers reported the men to the FBI about a month ago, but agents have been unable to identify them and released the photos hoping members of the public would know who they are.
Neither man is considered a suspect or has been charged with a crime.
“We admit right up front that the behavior could be completely innocuous,” Burroughs said.
The Puyallup delay was the second ferry disruption during the Wednesday morning commute. Less heavily used runs between Point Defiance in Tacoma and Tahlequah at the south end of Vashon Island were canceled until midmorning after about a dozen cracks were found during the wee hours in the state ferry Rhododendron.
The 48-car Rhododendron, built in 1947 and rebuilt in 1990, was taken to Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island after the chief engineer noticed the cracks in a 12-foot by 10-inch section on the starboard side about five feet above the water line, Coursey said.
The cracks ranged in width from a pinhole to a gap big enough for a finger and were near the rub rail, a ridge that is the first part of the boat to contact the dock.
The 34-car ferry Hiyu, built in 1967, was dispatched to resume service between Point Defiance and Tahlequah after 10 a.m.
They sure aren’t smiling into the camera.
“Suspicious package was not sparklers, but a bong”
Bong or hookah?
So having detonated the bong, the perps were headed for a bong shelter?
I guess sparklers just weren’t sexy enough.
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