Bomb Discovered on Train Tracks? (North Carolina) VANITY-Never verified

Police Source | 10-21-04 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

I am not stating this as 100% fact but apparently a bomb was discovered this afternoon on the rail tracks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I wouldn't post this unless I trusted the source. He is a police officer out of Orlando himself and said in confidence that it was found in a suitcase.

Has anyone heard about this locally and if so..what buildings would be of special target in that region to plant a bomb on the tracks? Is this a transportation issue or do trains run through the city past a major building?

Again...this is fresh info told to me minutes ago and it was told to me only because he got the info himself earlier today.

[Frank_Discussion]

Hey, it just jumped out at me! :)

[Cindy]

Let's see if this reaches the main-stream media. Here's some links I'll be watching:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22bomb%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22North+Carolina%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22train%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22train+tracks%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Winston-Salem%22&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22briefcase%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22suitcase%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.foxnews.com

http://www.wtop.com

http://www.google.com

http://news.yahoo.com

[joyce11111]

I heard from skerry that this is just a nuisance...sorry...move along

[to the core]

I'm not stating this as 100% fact, but I don't think this will make the main stream media. It was told in confidence.

[Cindy]

OPINION: I understand, but once something like this is posted on FR; it will be news one way or the other.

[to the core]

You might want to read the entire thread. And then perhaps take a sponge bath.

[Cindy]

See my posts Old Sarge.
I see nothing in the news, but posted links to watch.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

am not stating this as 100% fact but apparently a bomb was discovered this afternoon

And yet you post it as a fact????

Nice job

[to the core]

LOL

[to the core]

You might want to have some Florida links, too, in case the law enforcement source decides to tell a reporter in Florida (in confidence, of course).

[CyberAnt]

Under Homeland Security - I would suspect EVERY POLICE agency has been notified.

[to the core]

And people are taking this as if it were series. I hope nobody tells them it's not 100% fact, but that a friend has just told them in confidence that the ballots in their state have been changed so that a vote for Bush is a vote for Kerry and a vote for Kerry is a vote for Bush. I honestly believe some of these people would walk in and punch Kerry's chad.

[to the core]

In confidence, of course.

[TheLurkerX]

What happened with that missile story yesterday in Waterbury? Did anyone ever say what kind of missile they found in the house, or if it was a model rocket or what?

[Deaf Smith]

"I'm series!"

Go back to your shower and we'll let you know.

[PAR35]

I'd be curious to see the number of train derailments/accidents in the United States since 9/11 and compare that number to the number of train accidents in the same time period (roughly 3 years) prior.

Last time we had a chicken little thread on train derailments, I looked up the numbers on the web (the feds post the statistics). There has been no statistical increase. As I recall, the railroads average over one derailment a day.

Here's the old thread:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1112722/posts

and here's the stats:
http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.asp

Have fun.

[BagCamAddict]

Sorry, I never heard the story in the first place.

[TheLurkerX]

It was posted here on FR yesterday, but I didn't hear anything else about it afterward.

[CyberAnt]

I don't know what the restrictions are on who can be told what .. and it might differ - depending on the location of the threat - and how serious the threat is.

But .. all that aside .. I suspect the suitcase was meant for another location and was dumped when the people carrying it felt they were being watched. I haven't ridden a train for a long time, but I suspect it might be fairly easy to go to the end of the train and toss something out without being seen ..?? Just a thought!

[abn11b]

Thank you very much. A lot of our time at work is spent running through "what if" scenarios. I appreciate the info, it will come in handy.