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.
Cesium 137 would be that "something much worse." However, I think one of the things the remote 'bots have is radiacs as well to make sure they don't blow one of those up by mistake.
What is that?
He's saying "hoax devices" maybe?
You noticed how EVERYTHING happens at Logan?
Ah, but this is Tufts, so they were probably just doing extra credit for a Mideastern Studies prof in the IR school. ;-)
It was filled with electronics. There is a Music Complex right there were half assed bands practice. Someone probably stole an AMP, ditched it and was going to come back later.
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Liberalville! Like I said before, the libs are reaping what they've sown!
Similar to Pelosi's face and Hillary's personality, then.
It's just a 'spoof' by MIT students.
Coincidence? One wonders...
Little slip of a Canadian accent maybe?
What was it, 3 out of the 4 9/11 planes were hijacked out of there?
I found it this first line strange:
BOSTON - Bomb units scrambled to investigate four suspicious devices reported almost *simultaneously* throughout Boston.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=180263
This is when you check the phone ins... can we even do that now...
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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/10890113/detail.html
A crazy theory out of the blue: Iran sending a warning?
Though far, far more likely it is a crackpot or three pulling a hoax. Current or former college kids, probably leftist/anarchist-leaning brats.
The Hoax Devices even sounds like a punk-rock band name.
Thanks for the ping Howlin.
Doesn't sound good.
Hmmm...Boston DUmmies at work?
LOL. Wow! This was quick!
No, MIT students don't do this kind of thing.
Get passed out drunk and have a bridge marked off with your passed-out self? Yes.
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