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.
Your 're in a profession where even English doesn't mean what it says so don't ask me to improve mine.
If you are wondering how dry runs may help terrorists, then you haven't used your mind. Perhaps they were gauging response times, or maybe synchronizing their own timing. Who knows. Practice makes perfect.
No you haven't used your mind except, perhaps, in watching too much TV. Response time can be gathered by reading the newspapers, cops publish them for every city every year. IF you wanted to be exact do you really think it wise to call attention to a spot you are going to attack? If you move over a mile then your info is useless. IF you insist on doing a dry run than anyone with an IQ above 80 would use something that when the exercise is over will be thought not to have been real. A box with old books, a clock and a roll of wire. A briefcase with a travel clock, a flashlight, some old papers and $10, NOT a fake bomb.
We are in real danger, yes, but some of it is supposedly bright people jumping to stupid conclusions, time and time again.
Looks like it is going to be a popular item for anyone that can find one and sell it.
Good lord.
Thanks for the link. Interesting to say the least. How come no other cities are reporting the devices after all of this media attention?
Somehow I doubt what they are saying is true. Hubby says it is a good thing that the idiots did not 'prime the pump' on Super Bowl Sunday, because the whole country would have strung them up on the goalposts!!
Thanks for the link. I've seen pictures of the boards with the batteries uncovered but once you see them strung up with the batteries wrapped up in black tape, it's a little more difficult to blow it off as nothing at all.
Guess the trouble they've caused hasn't ended yet. Who is at fault if someone is injured while retrieving one of those things?
January 31, 2007 - Lucky Lawyer Day
"How come no other cities are reporting the devices after all of this media attention?"
See Post #582. They've become collectibles.
Your Hubby is right. They'd better not mess with Super Bowl Sunday!!
I keep going back to this post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%2C_Tuesday%2C_Wednesday%2C_Thursday%2C_Friday%2C_Saturday%2C_Sunday#Err
"Err (voiced by Matt Maiellaro) is second in command of the Mooninite Army (although he and Ignignokt are the only members of it). He is purple and smaller than Ignignokt. He is known for his trash talk, and he is usually the one who coerces Meatwad into going along with Ignignokt's schemes. In his most recent appearance, he claimed that the Mooninites only act the way they do due to a need for attention. He is a terrorist in Boston. Err fits precisely into the notch on Ignignokt's head, and when combined they can pool their firepower into the "Quad Laser", which is a stronger, yet slower, version of their standard lasers. A larger and more powerful version of this attack, the "Quad Glacier", which is done by replicating themselves into the form of a massive pistol, moves at a pace that barely registers to the naked eye. On January 31, 2007, a number of "devices" were found in the massachussetts area with the classic image of Err "shootin' the bird." These devices were essentially found to be a hoax.:
..."HE IS A TERRORIST IN BOSTON..."
I am sorry folks..these 'fuffernutters' need to be strung up!
Wow...one of my hobbies might be in trouble with this overreacting going on...
http://www.geocaching.com
There are currently 354976 caches worldwide, with about half of them in camo ammo boxes or surplus decontamination kit containers.
Terrorists don't hope to win face to face battles with western armies...they spread terror, and Boston is looking pretty terrified right now.
If these are the primary characters, then you have identified the answer to why Boston was the target city.
In an earlier comment, you expressed doubt whether other cities were included in the device planting as was claimed in the report. You're probably correct.
Fox just reporting a second arrest. Said the men were hired by Turner Broadcasting. Reports are mixed whether Turner or the advertising group initiated and executed this stunt.
I hope this is not doomed not because of this kind of idiocy.
The wife and I had a lot of fun going after caches a few years ago, now there are so many out there we are more picky about which ones we go after...we look for ones in historical areas we haven't been to before, or the web-cam caches, etc.
Thanks for the update and please keep me posted...lots going on at home(as usual...lol)
Shepard Smith is a nerd, and on the moon, nerds have their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks.
I hope they can see this cause I'm doing it as hard as I can.
I dont need no instructions to know how to ROCK!!!!
WHAT 'dry run'??? This was a marketing campaign for a stupid movie! Claiming that blinking lights pose a real threat to Americans is hysteria.
And your little girlish cries to send them to GTMO for 10 years is just plain stupid.
God I wish our whole country was defended by Guvner Patrick and Mayah Meninninininino and whcih ever of their clwons is heading yup the MBTA. I'd feel soooooooo safe.
The Sheeople of Boston are such over-reacting cowards. That's what happens after 50 yers of gun control!
As of this morning, it appears you are correct..
People are upset that they were made to look stupid, and now they want revenge...
Even the FoxNews talking head this morning, Scott *Whatever*, is calling the 2 art students "Knuckleheads", as if they somehow were the perpetrators of some nefarious plot..
You know somebody is going to pay when even FOX is looking for revenge.. ( They were made to look stupid as well..)
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