There a lot of p*ssed-off commuters from Brooklyn this AM now that the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges are closed...
Three stooges bring city to a halt
Mayor Mike: 'How stupid can you be?'
STAFF AND NEWS WIRE SERVICES
Friday was the day the Finest met the Dumbest.
Police shut down the Williamsburg Bridge for about 2-1/2 hours on Friday morning after bridge workers spotted three men in a restricted area. Turns out they weren’t terrorists, Mayor Bloomberg said, just three “stupid” men who were “sitting around drinking.”
But the report triggered a full-scale NYPD anti-terror response that snarled traffic into and out of Manhattan and in subways as well while Operation Atlas cops made security checks around town.
Early reports of the incident, plus inaccurate reports of a suspcious package on the Willy-B, shook world stock markets as wire services flashed the story around the world.
Two men from Massachusetts and a third from Rhode Island were being questioned at a nearby stationhouse Friday morning. The incident had no connection to terrorism, Bloomberg said Friday.
“What it really was was three guys who apparently got into someplace they shouldn’t. They were just sitting around drinking, so there was no threat,” Bloomberg said. “These three guys are in trouble and they certainly inconvenienced a lot of people.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/70838p-65849c.html