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NYPD investigating suspicious truck near bridge- Abandoned Truck [Update: all clear has been given]
Washington Post-AP ^ | May 5, 2010 | AP Staff

Posted on 05/05/2010 8:20:04 PM PDT by cammie

Edited on 05/05/2010 8:48:23 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

I don't see this below, so I thought I'd post. The Triborough Bridge here in NYC has been closed because an abandoned rental truck, smelling of gas, has been found on the bridge. Who knows - may be nothing, but I thought it was worth the post.

The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 5, 2010; 11:36 PM

NEW YORK -- New York City police are investigating a truck abandoned several yards from a toll booth near the Manhattan side of the Triborough Bridge.

Police say witnesses reported seeing a man flee the vehicle Wednesday night.



TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abandoned; abandonedtruck; bridge; investigating; newyork; newyorkcity; ny; nyc; nypd; rentaltruck; suspicious; triborough; triboroughbridge; truck; uhaul
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To: dead

Police say witnesses reported seeing a man flee the vehicle Wednesday night. A smell of gasoline was reported coming from the vehicle, which was described as a U-Haul or Ryder truck.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_suspicious_truck.html


41 posted on 05/05/2010 8:45:27 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: IM2MAD
Did the running driver look Amish?

I see I'll have to be a little quicker on the draw with the Amish jokes.

42 posted on 05/05/2010 8:46:10 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

OMG! That rendering looks like a hippo.


43 posted on 05/05/2010 8:46:39 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: hole_n_one
Found the Perps!


44 posted on 05/05/2010 8:46:48 PM PDT by cmsgop
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To: TornadoAlley3

Studiously avoiding a racial description of the man...which means it must not be a white man, because they always jump to whitey when they have half a chance.


45 posted on 05/05/2010 8:46:55 PM PDT by comps4spice (hey, hey, ho, ho, the political class has got to go)
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To: cammie

I hear there was an unauthorized Lutheran pot-luck dinner in the area. They probably got all amped up on chicken and noodles.


46 posted on 05/05/2010 8:47:34 PM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: txhurl
Definitely illegal or islamo, otherwise they’d be on their cell calling their (legal) company for help.

Bingo

From the story the toll both was manned there was no other reason for the driver to have fled.

47 posted on 05/05/2010 8:47:55 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: TornadoAlley3
A smell of gasoline was reported coming from the vehicle, which was described as a U-Haul or Ryder truck.

You would think that the big letters on the side of the truck would tip them off to which one it was. LOL

48 posted on 05/05/2010 8:48:07 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: comps4spice
treating is as haz-mat problem, no terror, move along:)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/05/suspicious-truck-shuts-new-york-citys-triborough-bridge/

49 posted on 05/05/2010 8:48:34 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

LOL.. don’t you just love our news reporting.


50 posted on 05/05/2010 8:49:16 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: cammie

Probably broke down and the driver tried to alert the security personnel on the bridge but found them asleep.


51 posted on 05/05/2010 8:49:26 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: SoldierDad
OMG! That rendering looks like a hippo.


52 posted on 05/05/2010 8:50:17 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

TRUE - but way rune away? (Maybe JUST Illegal?)

CNNValencia NEW: Witnesses say driver ran from truck. A toll booth operator says he approached truck but backed off after smelling strong odor of gas

6 minutes ago via web


53 posted on 05/05/2010 8:50:27 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (uestion)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Then if not illegal or islamo, they’d be raising high hell with U-Haul, audibly, visibly, on the bridge.


54 posted on 05/05/2010 8:50:34 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: cmsgop

That is one scary photo.


55 posted on 05/05/2010 8:50:39 PM PDT by LostInBayport (2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
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To: Abakumov
It has Arizona plates — must be a racial profiling truck

Loaded with illegal immigrants, perhaps?

56 posted on 05/05/2010 8:50:47 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: cammie
The Triborough has always been one of my favorite bridges . . .

especially when heading from the Deegan to Queens at night when the lights of Manhattan are aglow.


57 posted on 05/05/2010 8:50:51 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
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To: cammie
Maybe the driver didn't have enough $$$ for the toll and was so embarrassed he fled the scene.
58 posted on 05/05/2010 8:51:16 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: VRWCTexan
"TRUE - but way rune away?"

So he doesn't get stuned?

59 posted on 05/05/2010 8:51:34 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: cookcounty
A "lot" being defined as "300 or so."

2.75 million NYers voted for McCain/Palin.

60 posted on 05/05/2010 8:51:39 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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