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.
Bad phrasing on my part.....planting fake bombs is now something to use as an advertising tool and make people giggle?
Better?
ROTFLMAO
Beyond mere IDIOTS.
Good grief.
Fake bombs?
Oh No, they got the quote wrong...
The Mayor said... "Soop bloop doop duop derfticlte huch."
They should be arrested for TERRORIZING the Boston citizens.
I'm sure all those commuters inconvenienced by this absolute bullsh*t marketing idea aren't laughing . . .
The YouTube link has been pulled.
Yes, Mumbles is our "Hire the Handicapped" idiot Mayor.
Go here for lots of audio clips of him trying to speak English.
It's a website maintained by our local drive time talk radio guy, Howie Carr.
Boston citizens terrorize themselves every election.
Suspicious package means possibility of a bomb to me. I guess I need to be re-educated. I'm into that silly post 9-11 mindset.
I'm trying to see the humor of this situation. Maybe, I'm just too old and jaded to see this as nothing more than a clever advertising tool for a cartoon!
And made to pay dearly.
LOL....actually WE should sue Massachusetts citizens for forcing carry and Kennedy on us every election...
I am with you J!!
I don't care how "clever" these people think they were being...no one should be allowed to do something like this.
I have a great sense of humor...but this is NOT funny...IMHO
Pres. Wayne Palmer needs to negotiate their release immediately!
The way that this has been handled by the media and authorities I can understand your response, but think of it this way, if you saw a light up Bart Simpson on a wall, would you freak out?
I'm sure they aren't laughing, and I conceded in my first post in this thread that I probably wouldn't be either if I were in their shoes. That said, the whole thing strikes me as very funnyboth as an ATHF fan, and the simple fact that an advertising campaign for a cartoon caused such a huge uproar. Quite a sign of the times we're living in.
Hmmm... Please clarify this. Do you believe that people on this forum are "hoping" for a terrorist attack?
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.
This may be true, however you have not left out the possibility that this may have been in preparation for a terrorist attack. While, of course, I have no inside knowledge whether or not this was indeed a dry run, the facts as dictated indicate it is, at the least, a possibility.
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