Posted on 01/31/2007 12:04:30 PM PST by Howlin
BOSTON -- Four "hoax devices" were found at several Boston locations Wednesday, hours after officials detonated a suspicious package on an elevated structure above the Sullivan Square Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station.
The additional packages were found at the Boston University Bridge, the Longfellow Bridge and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus streets. A device described by officials as a pipe bomb was found in the basement of the Tufts New England Medical Center at 185 Harrison Ave.
A spokesman for the Boston Police Department said that all of the packages appeared to be similar.
"Our device was not an active device. We are still treating the area as a crime scene. There were no injuries. Everyone was evacuated properly, and everyone now back to their locations," Tufts New England Medical Center's Brooke Hynes said.
Mayor Tom Menino said that all of the packages found posed no danger, but the incidents remained under investigation. Storrow Drive eastbound was shut down for a brief time, and the MBTA suspended service on the Red Line and planned to bus afternoon commuters between Kendall and Park Street stations.
Earlier Wednesday, the state police bomb squad was called and detonated the package in Sullivan Square just before 10 a.m. Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were "consistent with an improvised explosive device," but they said it had no explosives. They determined that the device was not dangerous, but destroyed it as a precaution.
"We determined that this device, in particular, was not explosive," said MBTA Lt. Sal Venturelli.
He said MBTA police were told about the package by a transit passenger who spotted it on a column that supports Interstate 93. The parcel was located on an elevated structure above the bus way and below I-93 in the Charlestown section of Boston at about 8 a.m.
"This is a perfect example of our passengers taking part in Homeland Security," Venturelli said.
An investigation will be conducted into how the package got there and when, he said.
Train service on the Orange Line between Sullivan Square and Wellington stations was suspended in both directions. No injuries were reported.
The northbound side of I-93 was closed, causing significant traffic backups. Motorists were not allowed to access the highway near Sullivan Square coming up from the south.
Off topic - but remember how this cover pic was supposed to be a "turn on".
Funny, but the only pics I remember of that election were from the video of the sissy way algore played touch football while "relaxing with his family" waiting out yet another Florida recount.
Oh gosh. Now we have a caller saying it is the CIA trying to wake up the voters who voted in the Dems.
Mooninites unite!
Adult Swim Ad in South Boston
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/
I think "Vanderlin" is in a boatload of trouble
Are you getting the relevance of what that TV show has to do with this?
*Snort*
MoonBat Central!
...putting a triforce on top of the Great Dome....
^^
What it a triforce?
Even if this is a joke/hoax, people ARE watching.
Now thats great leadership!
Perhaps.
And perhaps our gov't has secretly foiled past attempts.
A dry run also helps terrorists gauge the potential success of the planned attack. Perhaps they abandoned plans based upon info gathered through their dry run.
Do you deny that the enemy has been actively plotting to carry out further attacks on American soil?
Boston PD just told to be highly visible on the train platforms for the commute.
It's a joke to advertise some TV show?? Sorry, I'm lost.
Sad very very sad.
That commute begins.... now.
We put up a vid of the lightsnipes being put up in NYC (although they have gone up in 10 cities) here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jXrYAuGcA
Posted by: jackpot321 on January 17, 2007 at 10:05 AM
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/aqua_teen_hunge.html
That or there a couple of high school kids sitting on their couches right now, laughing their butts off.
"It's a joke to advertise some TV show?? Sorry, I'm lost."
That's what one caller says to Howie Carr. It's to promote the Aquateen movie.
Never fear. Mumbles will be only shortly to join him in a presser.
Oh, Howlin, you are so 2006! The Democrats and Nancy the Messiah are in charge. All we have to do to fight terrorism is hold hands singing Kum Ba Yah, Celebrate Diversity and leave everything to the UN. :-))
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