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.
You just like people who plant them. Or people who plant fake bombs to scare the bejasus out of honest people.
I will put it to you this way.
My right to keep and bear arms does not mean that I can walk the streets and point a .44 magnum at random passers-by as a joke.
Not funny.
And the punks who planted hoax bombs are not funny.
Do you think ( and I use that word loosely !) that there are no terrorists inside America, who haven't/wouldn't love to plant bombs all over this nation? Or don't you think that YOU are in trouble, because you live somewhere they won't hit?
Big deal...I've got seniority over you.
I could have saved the city of Boston a truckload of money today. I would have gladly done it for a mere $100,000 or so. Maybe even $50,000.
And they say it is a hoax? Homeland security should charge the perpetrators with sedition , if they find a single piece of linkage between Ted Turner and Islamofascists.
Thank You Turner Broadcasting for the intelligence operation of behalf of the Islamofascists. It has a perfect cover: An Advertising Hoax.
At the very least CNN should pay for all of the costs of emergency responders answering the call. In addition CNN should be fined and several opf the planners charged with aiding and abetting the enemy, as I am sure CNN filmed every location, and will covertly send it on to Al Jezeera.
Thanks Ted. What a horredous unpatriotic A$$hole you are! And a liberal whacko moonbat to boot! If I could, I would give you my best swing at the end of a piece of Major League Hickory!
It was a Fox alert a few minutes ago. In the crawl they state one arrest in NY and the Mayor of Boston is going to seek legal action against Turner Broadcasting and affiliates.
So you're only in it for the money? Remind me not to count on you in an emergency.
I LIKE people who plant bombs???? Where did you see that? Your reasoning skills are seriously suspect.
How incredibly dumb are you?
The Islamo's want to behead you and you actually think it's "funny" and "sophisticated" to leak on people who are trying to get to work!
Piss off and GET A JOB!
The same CNN that knew about Saddam's massacres and looked the other way so they could keep their bureau office in Baghdad.
While it may improve the morale of the bombers, a taunt painted on an aerial bomb does not help the targets escape. That's not the case with a subway bomb.
A terrorist bomb is not supposed to be noticed until it's too late. So you might leave it concealed in a toolbox or wrapped in a wool sock. Or maybe slash a seat and cram it into the cushion.
You would not put flashing lights on it or have wires sticking out of it or make it tick audibly. That's just silly!
Dry run doesn't make sense, either. A live run is just as easy, so why not do it? All a dry run does is vaccinate the enemy's immune system, so to speak, making it harder to pull off the live run.
I love how the clueless newsies reported that police had "detonated" the devices but they contained no explosives. How the hell do you detonate something that isn't explosive?
Try this experiment for me. Hold your seniority in one hand, and crap in the other, see which one fills up first.
Which is worth more?
Your patriotism is non-existant.
Are you completely devoid of a sense of humor?
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Maybe they don't look like bombs to you, but someone else might think they do. Why you can't understand that is beyond me. And the fact that they were found dangling from bridges, within subway stations and at the entrance of a hospital, would make them even more suspicious to the average person. How many other national TV outlets run ad campaigns by hanging objects, consisting of circuit boards and batteries from bridges or placing them non-chalantly in subway stations and hospitals? The average person wouldn't think "Oh Gee, it's another ad campaign for a cartoon show I've never watched or know anything about." I think the average person would call in and report a suspicious item hanging from the bridge or elsewhere.
Wouldn't you like to know?
No, but it's obvious you have no common sense.
I eat live kittens and shoot puppies as well. But since you know me so well, that's not news to you.
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