False alarms could be probes.
Time will tell.
UPDATE:
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8R6CE7O0.html
Discovery of bong delays WA ferry service
08/22/2007
By ANNIE FLANZRAICH / Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “This bong threat was legitimate.
The FBI has confirmed that a suspicious package that idled one of the largest ferries in the Washington state fleet for about an hour Wednesday morning was actually a water-pipe typically used for smoking marijuana.
“Someone found a bong,” said David Gomez, FBI assistant special agent in charge.
The device was found in a men’s restroom of the 460-foot ferry Puyallup at the height of the morning commute.
The ferry had just been emptied of cars and passengers after arriving at Colman Dock from Bainbridge Island about 8 a.m. when the package was found, said Marta Coursey, a spokeswoman for the ferry system.
State Patrol Sgt. Craig H. Johnson would only say the device was a “nonhazardous, nonexplosive item,” adding investigators carried it off the ferry for further examination.
No arrests were made and no identified individuals were being sought, but “we’d like to find the person who left it there,” Johnson said.