Philly Train Terror Update
(Don't expect the gov to protect you)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140674/posts
Ah ha! The truth comes out. I know none of us on TM were buying the "someone may have dropped it" story.
There is an investigation into the discovery of an infrared motion sensor that was placed in the track bed of a SEPTA train yard in West Philadelphia.
And there are serious questions being raised about how SEPTA responded.
Naomi Jones/SOUTH PHILADELPHIA:
"It's just scary that they waited like that, they put lives in jeopardy I feel."
Harry Graves/NORTH PHILADELPHIA:
"With the situation going on in the country now it would seem that something should be checked out as soon as it is heard."
SEPTA says it did check out the device, an infrared motion sensor and transmitter similar to one spray painted black placed along the tracks in the train storage yard on the approach to 30th Street. But how they checked it out is under serious scrutiny. Action News has learned a conductor found the device on May 5th. SEPTA employees took it to the maintenance shed and tried to disassemble it themselves. They later turned it over to SEPTA police who placed it in a locker for a week.
Does that mean they found to devices? Similar to one spray painted black placed along the tracks?
SEPTA says it did check out the device, an infrared motion sensor and transmitter similar to one spray painted black placed along the tracks in the train storage yard on the approach to 30th Street. But how they checked it out is under serious scrutiny. Action News has learned a conductor found the device on May 5th. SEPTA employees took it to the maintenance shed and tried to disassemble it themselves. They later turned it over to SEPTA police who placed it in a locker for a week.
On May 13th, someone heard it beeping and decided to call the Philadelphia Police Bomb Squad. The bomb squad found it was not explosive and called the FBI. At that point, federal agents began a one thousand meter perimeter search of the area where the device was found. They were looking for other possible components and other evidence. Nothing else was found.
That is one lesson we have already learned. Regarding terrorist sightings in suspect locations with videotaping, camera and other "implements of the trade," along with prison releases, just think of our policies as similar to fishing rules: Catch and Release.