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Suspicious Package Shuts Down Courthouse, Turns Out to Be Taco Bell Order
Food & Wine ^ | February 16, 2022 | Jelisa Castrodale

Posted on 02/16/2022 3:16:01 PM PST by nickcarraway

In under 20 minutes, the Tuscaloosa Police Department responded to an emergency call and successfully disposed of the taco delivery.

The Tuscaloosa Police Department had an exciting Valentine's Day, and it started with an early morning phone call from an employee at the Tuscaloosa Federal Courthouse. According to the Tuscaloosa News, the courthouse worker reported a pair of suspicious packages on the building's front steps, and several officers were immediately sent to the scene.

Within a few minutes, the cops had blocked the streets to both vehicles and pedestrians, and cautiously approached the two unidentified items that had been left on the steps. When the officers opened the packages, they discovered what may have been, uh, somebody's to-go order.

"The investigation revealed the boxes contained what we have identified as a delivery order containing a Taco and Burrito Cravings Pack from Taco Bell," the Tuscaloosa Police Department wrote on its Facebook page. "It had been customized to include an assortment of regular and Doritos Locos tacos, along with four beefy five-layer burritos."

The roads were reopened less than 20 minutes after the original call was received, and the cops said that the contents of the Cravings Pack were "safely disposed of" in the dumpster behind police headquarters.

Although the majority of the Facebook commenters appreciated the officers' quick actions and their abundance of caution, a couple of people couldn't resist making jokes about it. "IN THE DUMPSTER?! ARREST YOURSELVES," one person all-caps'ed, while another added that "the bigger crime is those five layer burritos going to waste."

This isn't the first time that Taco Bell and potential explosives have overlapped. In January 2019, an unidentified couple found a World War II-era grenade while they were magnet fishing in a central Florida river and, for some reason, they took it to an Ocala Taco Bell before they called the cops.

The couple had the grenade in a plastic bucket in the back of their Toyota Camry when they pulled into the fast food restaurant and called 911 to report their potentially explosive find. The Marion County Sheriff's Office and its bomb squad responded to the call and evacuated the Taco Bell.

"The bomb squad removed the grenade without incident and advised it would be disposed of properly," the department said, according to the Miami Herald. The Taco Bell reopened shortly afterward.


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To: Bullish

It was a bomb! A gut bomb!


21 posted on 02/16/2022 3:47:30 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Do_Tar

Missed that. 911 call 8:02


22 posted on 02/16/2022 3:49:22 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: nickcarraway

Remember that guy who went to Taco Bell and then went to Home Depot?

True Story. The guy walks into the bathroom and tells everyone in the bathroom that they better leave because, He was fixin’ to blow the place up!”

The guy was just trying to be nice and warn everyone and people took him to literally. Home Depot was evacuated. Cops came. It was a mess.

Moral of the story? Know where you’re goin’ (literally) after making a run for the Taco Bell border!


23 posted on 02/16/2022 3:50:33 PM PST by Obadiah (Fauci is the golden calf of science.)
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To: nickcarraway

The good news is that Taco Bell products are not normally poisonous in small doses.


24 posted on 02/16/2022 4:15:15 PM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Jewbacca
"Well I hope they at least got to shoot a dog."

The dog was in on it...


25 posted on 02/16/2022 4:28:17 PM PST by moovova
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To: JLS; bamahead; EdReform; saleman; Southack; kosciusko51; Bryan24; blam; Jemian; alancarp; ...

Ping to the state list.

I have no further comment.


26 posted on 02/16/2022 5:06:15 PM PST by Jemian (War Eagle! It is great to be an Auburn Tiger.)
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To: nickcarraway

Gonna pass, jokes about Taco bell making an explosion too easy 😡


27 posted on 02/16/2022 5:11:30 PM PST by dkGba
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To: dkGba

Dang it, Oops 🤣 not angry face. Fat fast fingers


28 posted on 02/16/2022 5:12:57 PM PST by dkGba
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe they know something about the local taco bell....


29 posted on 02/16/2022 5:48:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway
I busted out laughing just reading the headline 🤣
30 posted on 02/16/2022 6:28:41 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well to be truthfull - I’m very explosive after eating Taco Bell so...


31 posted on 02/16/2022 6:36:03 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Spok

Yup.


32 posted on 02/16/2022 6:37:34 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Bernard

That’s a normal Taco Bell to-go box.


33 posted on 02/17/2022 12:14:42 AM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: nickcarraway
The tacos and burritos have been safely disposed of in the Dumpster behind TPD headquarters.

A block of C4 would be more fun.

34 posted on 02/17/2022 5:45:48 AM PST by GingisK
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To: dowcaet

I pack a punch a few hours later.


35 posted on 02/17/2022 5:46:39 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

LOL. Yup, those things do wonders to your digestive system!


36 posted on 02/17/2022 8:42:58 AM PST by dowcaet
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