PACKAGE AT PORT OF MIAMI POSED NO THREAT! (No Explosives - Contained Sprinkler Parts!)

Yahoooooo via ^ | 1/8/07

[areafiftyone]

MIAMI - The Port of Miami was hit by its second terrorism scare in two days Monday when a package that was to be loaded onto a cruise ship tested positive for plastic explosives. Authorities later determined it was harmless.

The package was initially tested six times, and each time it came back positive for the military-grade explosive known as C4, the Coast Guard said.

The package was then destroyed, and a Miami-Dade County police bomb squad determined it contained sprinkler parts, said Zach Mann, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami.

[theDentist]

Geez... my faith in our Security Services is just growing greater with each passing showerhead.

[green iguana]

Barney Fife in charge of security there?

[cmsgop]

Don't Misunderestimate a Miscommunication !!!

[cgk]

6 different tests coming back positive for C4 means it's all a mistake? Is this some kind of dumb joke?

Sprinkler parts could have many uses in the terrorism handbook if that is really what they are/were.

[kittymyrib]

Dry run.

[John Jorsett]

We need to find out who's making sprinklers out of C4 and make them stop.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Kooks greatly saddened. But of course this is a conspiracy/coverup, because paranoids 100 miles away munching on tinfoil while typing know the actual contents of the package, as opposed to the responding bomb squad.

"She floats, she must be a witch!"

[areafiftyone]

This is kinda pathetic! They just killed someone's sprinker! Shame on them! Innocent Sprinkler!

[ctdonath2]

"Dry run" is gettin' kinda old. After 5 years ya'd think they'd have given it a shot for real.

[beltfed308]

Miami-Dade County police bomb squad determined it contained sprinkler parts

These guys should be in the detective squad.

[areafiftyone]

I think the stupid tests were wrong.

[geopyg]

I wonder if sprinkler parts = pvc piping?

[DrGunsforHands]

I hope they're tracing where that package has been. Possible dry run?

[Palladin]

Best to use an abundance of caution.

With all the jitteriness today in NYC, New Jersey, Austin, and Miami, I think the Feds and Homeland Security have received some valid threats lately, and are doing their best to forestall an attack.

Give them credit. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[green iguana]

You laugh, but someone's grass is gonna die because of this...

[Spunky]

"The package was initially tested six times, and each time it came back positive for the military-grade explosive known as C4, the Coast Guard said."

This boggles the mind. Are the plastics in sprinklers made with C4 in them? Or are the recycling plastic explosive material into sprinklers?

[RobRoy]

The dry run failed.

[Dog]

LOL!

[areafiftyone]

Either that or the tests they are doing are saying that things that really aren't explosives are testing positive. They need to get their system of testing checked out.