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.
Karl, the reporters on MSNBC have been saying that the BPD has been all over Boston today.........I wonder if they have an alert?
Was he shaking his finger when he said that?
"Call 911", lol!
Yeah. Aqua teen. Sad promo from some well to do stoner dudes.
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Thanks for the ping- out of the loop- working....(thank God for FR!)
Did you think that the 9/11 catastrophe was simple to create for the terrorists' standpoint? I believe that that is the level of destruction that these terrorists actually desire.
Hoax or dry run. I vote for dry run...
I'm going to need an interpreter.
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Apparently islamos have a decent support infrastructure in Boston and at Logan.
LOL. No kidding. I hope Howie gets some good sound bites.
{Thoroughly chastised}
How could I have forgotten; you'll have to forgive me; it's hard to STOP caring........LOL.
Sometimes I feel like the few of us here are the last sane people in the country.
Howie doesn't have to "get" soundbites.....mumbles keeps spitting them out.
Did no one in all of Boston not see these devices being placed? Security or speed cameras could have recorded something, surely.
Thanks for the ping, Howlin.
By the way, it isn't that I knew about Aquateen...I was repeating what Shep was reporting! LOL! I see "Adult Swim" on my cable but have avoided going onto that channel because I thought it was porn. So much for me being "hip" and "with it". HA!
When I found out that it was a mooninite on at least one of the devices I had a pretty good laugh, I'm afraid. I love Aqua Teen Hunger Force and have the first four volumes on DVD, and I'm most certainly not a stoner. I used to be, though, so I guess my sense of humor hasn't changed much.
I'm trying to work up some healthy indignation over this, but I can't. I'm sure it would be easier if I was one of those unfortunate Boston commuters. The hoaxers have a wicked sense of humor, but they do deserve to see some hard time over this. I hope they find that tickling my funny bone was worth a few decades in prison.
Thanks Howlin
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