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Bradley Airport evacuated {Connecticut}
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| January 19, 2003
| AP
Posted on 01/20/2004 12:58:10 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
WINDSOR LOCKS (AP) - Bradley International Airport was evacuated Tuesday after authorities discovered a "cutting instrument" inside a concourse, police said.
Travelers were evacuated onto the street and airport officials said they would ensure travelers made it to their destinations. There was no immediate word on whether flights were canceled.
State police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance said a cleaning crew found the cutting instrument in a women's restroom on the airport's new concourse, which opened last year.
"There was absolutely no threat whatsoever," Vance said. "It was a discovery, and as result of that discovery we instituted the plans we have in place.
We're not going to open it until we're absolutely certain it's safe." Bradley, located about 20 miles north of Hartford, is the largest regional airport between Boston and New York.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airportsecurity
Bradley, located about 20 miles north of Hartford, is the largest regional airport between Boston and New York.
To: LurkedLongEnough
Left behind by a trade doing some work, no doubt. I doubt terrorists accidentally leave behind their weapons.
To: LurkedLongEnough
a "cutting instrument" inside a concourse. Someone running with scissors again?
To: LurkedLongEnough
>> "There was absolutely no threat whatsoever," Vance said. <<
If there was no threat, why was the airport evacuated?
Strange days we live in.
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:02:34 PM PST
by
appalachian_dweller
(If we accept responsibility for our own actions, we are indeed worthy of our freedom. – Bill Whittle)
To: LurkedLongEnough
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:03:13 PM PST
by
Joe Brower
("When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place." - Paul Craig Roberts)
To: JennysCool
Someone running with scissors again?Probably nail clippers, but they were the BIG ones designed for toe nails...
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:04:12 PM PST
by
trebb
(Ain't God good . . .)
To: JennysCool
![](http://hometown.aol.com/sillysongbook/images/weird%20al%20scissors.jpg)
Here's the perp
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: LurkedLongEnough
Lurked,
30 years ago as a preteen a friend had access to a Cessna 180 on Amphibious floats. We took off from the water, flew to Bradley and landed, then taxied to the concourse and parked next the jets.
We got out, went in a door that led upstairs to a soda fountain. The pilot I was flying with, was probably after one of the girls behind working the counter.
My how times have changed......
To: leadpencil1
No doubt! :-) Watch out for running with leadpencils, too! You could put somebody's eye out!
To: JennysCool
Or get "lead" poisoning! :)
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:23:35 PM PST
by
mrbillxx
To: JennysCool
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:38:23 PM PST
by
LurkedLongEnough
(There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. -Thoreau)
To: OneTimeLurker
Or it could simply have been some lady had forgotten that she had it on her when she reached the airport. The quickest and easiest thing to do is to go in the bathroom and throw it away. Trying to give it up to security would just make you miss your flight as they interrogated you.
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:41:07 PM PST
by
LenS
To: LurkedLongEnough
Bradley International Airport was evacuated Tuesday after authorities discovered a "cutting instrument" inside a concourse, police said.Connecticut Weight Watchers was evacuated Tuesday after authorities discovered a "crumb" on the floor, police said.
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:44:00 PM PST
by
brewcrew
To: LurkedLongEnough
ANOTHER OVER-REACTION!
To: LurkedLongEnough
..there was absolutely no threat whatsoever," Vance said. "It was a discovery, and as result of that discovery we instituted the plans we have in place...Can you now institute the plan to deal with absurd over-reaction, Sgt. Vance?
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posted on
01/20/2004 1:59:16 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup2.html)
To: LurkedLongEnough
"There was absolutely no threat whatsoever," I like to think I am more mature and self-controlled but if I had been there and we were evacuated because of a box cutter, there might well have been a threat.
To: LenS
Unlikely as to an old lady. She would have been thuroughly strip searched and interrogated before being allowed to enter the concorse!
To: INSENSITIVE GUY
What's the alternative?
(rhetorical:) Say you knew about the "cutting instrument" and many people died. How would you feel then?
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posted on
01/20/2004 6:03:27 PM PST
by
LurkedLongEnough
(There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. -Thoreau)
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