Posted on 09/04/2006 12:39:42 AM PDT by ChessMan
Police Searching For Semi Possibly Packed With Explosives
POSTED: 8:21 pm EDT September 2, 2006 UPDATED: 11:22 pm EDT September 2, 2006
Police across Florida are searching for a semi after receiving a tip that the vehicle may be on its way to Central Florida packed with explosives, Local 6 News has learned.
Authorities said a man called a crisis center in Georgia and said the tractor-trailer is traveling to Orlando.
He told a worker that it is a brown 18-wheeler with an eagle on its side, the report said. Click here to find out more!
Officers confirmed the threat but were trying to determine how credible it was late Saturday.
Anyone with information on the truck is urged to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
A brown 18-wheeler with an eagle on its side ought not be that hard to find.
Has to be...
Hope I'm not wrong.
Prayers for a false alarm from here, too! I have family there, and in several FL locations.
Central Floriduh? Probably firecrackers. How else do they get to CrAzI EdDiEs Central Fla Freakworks Emporium? Odds?
Here's the odds:
90 to 1 it is a false alarm.
9.75 to 1 it is a legitimate shipment of potentially explosive materials for a legitimate use.
0.25 to 1 it is something insidious.
Orlando on Labor Day...there will be lots of people there.
But has any "real" terror thread been called in ahead of time...that's the question.
If it is real, seems that the "parks" could easily prevent a semi from entering. The park hotels might have a harder time keeping a semi out.
Praying the semi is spotted quickly.
I've been having a bad feeling, as well. It just seems that there have been so many "false alarms", etc.
Brings to mind this recent truck story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687997/posts
Probably either a prankster or else an Islamist who is testing how we react to such a threat.
The truck blows,,,Tehran goes.
And they're building a highway for Mexican trucks with uninspected Chinese cargo driving all the way to Kansas City? Are they nuts?
George W. Bush, where are you?
All Disney hotels are gated communities that restrict access to registered guests.
I live in GA and have not heard anything about this. Is there any new news?
This sounds like a prank call, but when I'm out and about today in Central FL..I'll be looking anyway!
Are you sure it is not a U-Haul full of paper ballots from the 2000 election?
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