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.
A better choice: heading for Framingham.
I seriously doubt it is a dry run. Aqua Teen Hunger Force—while being popular among a very particular crowd—is so obscure to most that I doubt real terrorists would even know what the hell it was, let alone appreciate the humor of putting the mooninite on the fake bomb (you have to watch the show to realize just how...well...appropriate that is).
I could well be wrong, I'll admit, and that there are ATHF loving terrorists out there, ready to strike in the mooninites' name—I very much doubt it, though.
That's one of the rumors.
Is Mumbles the Boston Mayor? He was just on and I almost died laughing. I could not understand what he was saying at all! You're killing me!
(Of course, I take it all back if he had oral cancer or something like that.....coz that's not funny.)
Turner Braodcasting seems to be taking responsibility for this-------marketing campaign for Adult Swim animated cartoon..circuitboard...with 4 duracell batteries...
IDIOTS.
Ah, but if you could convince Aqua Teen fans to do this as a joke, while you were interested in the results for your own purposes...well then, you have conducted a dry run while deflecting attention, haven't you?
CNN said it was their parent company - Turner Broadcasting, that placed these 'billboards' a few months ago in an advertising campaign.
Pardon the pun, but if this whole thing is advertizing for something, it has bombed.
Yep. Howie Carr plays sound bites of Mumbles. It is hilarious.
WHAT??? Turner Broadcasting did this? Where did you hear it? Arrest them all, starting with Ted Turner!
One guy with a car could easily hit all those locations in a row, without back-tracking, in about half an hour (not counting the time it took to plant the devices).
I think that's what I'm hearing, also. Are we supposed to be amused? Terrorist threats are now something to use as an advertising tool and make people giggle? I'm feeling ill...
You've got to be kidding me ... they have bomb shows in Massachusetts?
Now I am beyond confused!
I hope some of our sharper FRiends can help me understand what the heck is going on!
"Terrorist threats are now something to use as an advertising tool and make people giggle?"
What was the "Terrorist threat"?
The "Dry Run" claims largely seem to come out when people get frustrated and disappointed when something they hoped was a possible terrorist attack turns out not to be.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, examining the facts of the situation, it ends up having made no logical sense whatsoever for said incident to be a dry run and no conceivable benefit to any sort of terrorists.
What???
My God...if the terrorists have THE FOREIGNER BELT, I shudder to think of the future.
Looks like these guys were behind the guerilla marketing campaign and could be in BIG trouble...
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