Skywalk, it's your people in the news today!
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.
I agree with not over-reacting and killing the bad guys where they live.
I advise awarness, not paranoia.
Whoa, an arrest for this incident has been made in New York.
This looks like an Capt. Planet episode from Barbara Pyle's cartoon imagination.
Was this CNN secret agent planting these moon-beam deflector robaton actuators to warn EARTH of more Global Warming?
NO MATTER: In six months, CNNs cartoon network ratings will double and who has the last laugh?? None of us. We'll just be POd at the continual parade of fools loose in society.
Pogo was & is right on: " Discovered the enemy and he is US".
awareness!
You are playing games. Or you are a liberal terrorist symp.
Skywalk, it's your people in the news today!
"You are playing games. Or you are a liberal terrorist symp."
Far, far from it.
"Whoa, an arrest for this incident has been made in New York."
Info!
Was that container of french fries made with no trans fat oil? I hope so or Ted Turner is in big trouble.
ATTENTION ALL FREEPERS
DO NOT GO OUTSIDE. THERE ARE SIMPLY TOO MANY THINGS SITTING AROUND UNATTENDED, THAT COULD, PERHAPS, CONCEIVABLE CONTAIN A BOMB, BE LINKED TO A BOMB, OR BE IN SOME OTHER WAY ASSOCIATED WITH BOMB LIKE DEVICES.
STAY BY YOUR PHONE AND CALL 911 IF YOU SEE THE FEDEX GUY DELIVERING A PACKAGE TO YOUR NEIGHBOR. IT COULD BE A BOMB.
OFFICIAL PANIC NOTIFICATION.
When the mushroom cloud goes up I hope it will be over your blue city.
Possibly the worst publicity stunt since Orson Welles dramatized War of the Worlds
Come back when you're old enough to ride the big people's roller coaster.
Oh, I don't know. Perhaps look at it and use the brain that God gave me. But that's just me.
Haha. My son (skywalk) watches this stuff and I've been coerced into watching a few shows with him. It's not bad, but I doubt I'd watch on my own. I keep wondering how they get around without feet... I guess I'm in the wrong demographic.
Stupid ad campaign, tho.
Do you know how to tell a letter bomb from a letter?
Been here for 6 years. I ain't going nowhere.
Send me your phone number please. The next time I see a strange package or circuit board dangling overhead from the bridge, I can give you a call. You can use that brain God gave you to shimmy up there and check it out.
I don't see how being afraid of blinking lights due to the fact that the terrorists have you so uptight means you should call me such as that.
People are asking that other people be jailed for putting patently harmless devices in public view.
Bombs go boom. Plastic goes thud, and only when you drop it.
If an individual believes this to be a jailable offense, then the terrorists have won, and we should just give up.
If the devices had a bright red tube labeled "TnT" attached, that would be different. But they did not. There is nothing scary about plastic and LED's.
I've had to learn this because letter bombs are a real problem here in Wisconsin. And it's only reasonable to expect that everything you get in the mail could blow up and kill you.
Call me paranoid, but hey, better safe than sorry.
Yes because they were ad campaign that had been used in other cities with no problems. Why should they be punished for the stupidity of government officials not simply doing a few basic checks? But that's 'Homeland Security' in a nutshell isn't it? Just another inept useless government bureaucracy. Not to mention oversensitive adult children that run to the police at the drop of a pin. I must say they have been trained well haven't they?
Personally I think it's an absolute riot. I suppose 'conservatives' will now want government to approve of all advertising to ensure its 'safety'. Go freedom!!!
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