My thoughts exactly...Testing Rover's nose...
Posted on 08/22/2007 10:41:58 AM PDT by Alouette
SEATTLE -- The Washington state ferry Puyallup was evacuated Wednesday morning at Colman Dock in Seattle after a crew member found what they deemed to be a suspicious package on board.
The 460-foot Puyallup had just been emptied of cars and passengers after arriving at Colman Dock from Bainbridge Island about 8 a.m. when the bag of sparklers was found behind the toilet in the disabled passenger stall in the men's restroom.
Following a search and examination by State Patrol troopers, the 2,500-passenger, 202-vehicle ferry was cleared to resume service about 9 a.m.
The Puyallup delay was the second ferry disruption during the morning commute. Less heavily used runs between Point Defiance in Tacoma and Tahlequah at the south end of Vashon Island were canceled until midmorning after about a dozen cracks were found during the wee hours in the state ferry Rhododendron.
The 48-car Rhododendron, built in 1947 and rebuilt in 1990, was taken to Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island after the chief engineer noticed the cracks in a 12-foot by 10-inch section on the starboard side about five feet above the water line, Coursey said.
The cracks ranged in width from a pinhole to a gap big enough for a finger and were near the rub rail, a ridge that is the first part of the boat to contact the dock.
The 34-car ferry Hiyu, built in 1967, was dispatched to resume service between Point Defiance and Tahlequah after 10 a.m.
Fat chance!! More likely our Mayor will task the police force to give top priority to returning the package of sparklers to the people that lost them.
I take it you’ve heard about this?
Well, yeah ... I was not unaware of the existence of reservation-bought M80s when I was growing up in WA. ;-)
And yet my kids will invariably buy sparklers and "fun" stuff. And my in-laws buy the more harmless sorts of things, too .... to give to the kids.
It's not a "dry run". It's somebody who put their fireworks down and forgot to pick them up.
Umm, not only disabled people use the handicap stall. And since sparklers are the “safest” of fireworks (that’s why the little ones are always holding them) just maybe there are some people who can sit in a wheelchair and hold a sparkler at the same time.
Hey, but I’m fair. If this is a big terrorist strike or revealed plot that is traced to smuggling explosives into the country by ferry, I’ll come here and say you are right.
But for the moment, the War on Terror is beginning to resemble the War on Drugs.
I hear what it is you are saying!
LLS
See post #20
I would believe it... shaking my head the whole time... but I would believe it.
LLS
My thoughts exactly...Testing Rover's nose...
I can hear the judge now: "I sentence you to death because you did not commit a real crime."
Sounds like Monty Python material. It doesn't sound like something a rational American would say, except in jest.
Mmmm, whoever was carrying them and forgot them has been packing them around awhile. Washington state laws allows retail sales of fireworks ONLY from June 29 through July 4; and again during the Christmas season.
Indian reservations are not subject to Washington state fireworks laws -- not in permissible sales dates, nor in the type of fireworks they can sell.
You can buy fireworks at reservations all year 'round. (You might get in trouble if you use them off-reservation, but that's a different issue.)
Peaceful fireworks enthusiasts? Or something else?
Hear about it? B. was on the commuter bus from home to the ferry when news came in on the bus’s radio. At the dock, cars waiting to board were turning around and leaving. Bus turned around and brought B and other passengers home again. Imagine my surprise.
As it turned out, regular ferry service not restored until mid-afternoon. Exceedingly inconvenient, as B had an all-day interview scheduled with important company. FRUSTRATION!!!!
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