UPDATE...
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4739706/detail.html
AP
"Bomb Scare Evacuates 2,000 From Santa Monica Mall"
"Investigation Closes Nearby Roads"
POSTED: 7:10 pm PDT July 18, 2005
UPDATED: 10:48 pm PDT July 18, 2005
SANTA MONICA, Calif. --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Fabrega said police set up a command post in the 100 block of Broadway and brought in bomb-sniffing dogs.
Shortly after 8 p.m. police gave an all-clear signal and determined it was not a bomb.
Police did not say what the device was."
Thanks, Cindy.
One nut case to another. ;-)