ALERT! FBI looking for truck that passed through Colorado!

9 News Denver ^ | 2-14-03 | Chris Vanderveen

[RandallFlagg]

DENVER - Concern among members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force has surfaced in Colorado. A semi-truck driving through the state on Thursday afternoon apparently triggered a nationwide alert going out to law enforcement agencies across the state Friday night.

Only a few specifics of the alert were released. Apparently, it stems from what happened at a Sinclair gas station in Byers around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Byers is about 40 miles east of Denver on I-70.

Two men described as Middle Eastern in an 18-wheeler with a white tractor truck apparently tried to put unleaded gasoline into the truck. An attendant advised them it would not work and told them they needed to use diesel.

The men fueled up with the correct gas, paid in cash and left on Highway 36, which would connect them to I-80 in northeastern Colorado.

The truck has a Quebec, Canada, license plate number RS7-116. The name on the truck is Real Transport.

Authorities ran a check on the license plate and said it was clear, but it does not have a current registration.

The FBI sent out the alert shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. It advises law enforcement officers that if the semi is contacted to identify the occupants and determine if there is a current registration available.

If the FBI has any other reason to be worried about the semi, it's not saying.

There’s no confirmation that this is tied into any possible terrorism, but with the country on high alert, no one wants to take any chances.

[not-an-ostrich]

Original article says "expired registration". Can that be different from "expired plates"?

[not-an-ostrich]

Most of my extended family lives 1/4 mile off Hwy 36. Parke County, IN.

[dinodino]

Mostly good for killing ants. I can't imagine that terrorists can do anything useful with boric acid.

[RandallFlagg]

BWAAHAHAHA!! That was GREAT!

Unfortunately, I was in during the "PC" era of Klinton. Did you know that to advance from the status of Pollywog to Shellback, they pretty much line you up and hand you a card saying, "You're a shellback... You're a shellback... You're a shellback..." No more hazing. BUMMER!

We found lots of ways to torment the Bootcamps. Send 'em to the aft lookout to watch for sea bats, send 'em to the bridge for the stern gate key, send 'em to the hull techs to ask for the ship's screws. I sure miss it.

[dinodino]

That would be phosphorus.

[thescourged1]

IMHO, it isn't about the boric acid at all (it's probably sitting at the bottom of an embankment somewhere), it's the truck they wanted.

[mhking]

Fascinating.

I-80 would take them to/through Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago, Cleveland and New York City. However, from Chicago (as everyone can figure), all bets are off.

[Trteamer]

Thanks for the heads up! I will keep my eyes open and my cell phone handy.

Here is a funny story about unleaded gasoline:

I used to be a professional taxidermist. We used a gasoline solution to take the water out of bird skins after we washed them. It consisted of 5 gallons of unleaded gasoline, 1 quart of solvent alcohol, and 1 pint of turpentine. I used to keep it in a gas can rack on the back of my truck.
One night I went out with my friends to a local bar, when we left I noticed the top of the gas can was off. There were 2 sets of motorcycle tracks leading up to the back of my truck and a piece of garden hose laying on the ground. The gas can was empty! I'll bet that motorcycles don't run very well on solvent alcohol and turpentine!! LOL!!
All the Best!

[RandallFlagg]

At least when it comes to thieves and their ilk, intelligence not required.

[Boot Hill]

But why would you suspect this truck to have been stolen for use by terrorists? There are thousands (literally) of trucks stolen every year. What makes this one any more special than all the others?

--Boot Hill

[gg188]

The group of terrorists from Portland observed shooting at a rural gravel pit wearing their robes and turbans. ("If they had been wearing flannel I wouldn't have given them a second thought" said the Sheriff).

Umm. Example of why the America-hating American left hates profiling. According to liberals, the sheriff is guilty of thought-crimes and worse and should never have approached the ragheads.

[gg188]

It advises law enforcement officers that if the semi is contacted to identify the occupants and determine if there is a current registration available.

I hope they are a bit more rigourous in their investigation of these guys when/if caught. This sounds like Barney Fife---"Ok, boys, your registration is current, now y'all have a NICE day, y'hear."

It would, however, be pretty unfair to profile these guys just because a) they are driving a diesel truck but don't know what kind of fuel to use, b) terrorists are known to use trucks in terrorist acts, and c) they fit the description of the 100 million or so mohams worldwide who hate our a$$es and have taken religious vows to commit genocide to exterminate us.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Hope they tried to go east on I80 yesterday and overnight. We have had up to 10 inches snow and it's still coming down.

[thescourged1]

Ya never know.....maybe and maybe not. Ask yourself this: Who would want to swipe a load of boric acid? It's about the truck, not the cargo. The biggest question is, who did it? So your question is certainly valid. I'm just trying to think like one of the vermin. And US 36 is a bit off the beaten path. I ran out of gas on 36 in E. Colorado and I was so totally screwed. Fortunately, I ran across the gas station owner who had closed up shop at 5PM and had come back into "town" to get something he forgot in his office. And a trucker in a hurry wouldn't use this road, since it follows all the fencelines in KS and CO. I would use US36 to avoid attention.

[B Knotts]

The men fueled up with the correct gas, paid in cash and left on Highway 36, which would connect them to I-80 in northeastern Colorado.

Ummm....no. That'd be I-76. I-80 doesn't go into Colorado. Nor, to the best of my knowledge, does U.S. 36 intersect with I-80.

[GirlShortstop]

Police were on the lookout for a tractor-trailer with expired Canadian plates after two men attempted to fill it up with unleaded gasoline, instead of diesel fuel, the Colorado State Patrol said Friday.

This makes me chuckle... I thought the mohammedans were *good* at pumping gas?     </ArchieBunkerism OFF>

[gg188]

If I was at the gas station, I would have let the morons fuel up with nolead and called the Highway Patrol

Political correctness notwithstanding, shouldn't Homeland Security advise people (especially brain-dead gas station attendants): DON'T assist suspicious mohams in ANY WAY. (By suspicious, I mean if they look, walk or talk like any one of the 19 9-11 hijackers). How about if they got their diesel thanks to this good Samaritan, and then nuked Denver?

In WWII, wouldn't we have KNOWN, wouldn't the govt have TOLD us not to assist suspicious swatsika-wearing men who spoke German? (I believe this is a scenario in a number of Hollywood war-era propaganda films.)

You wouldn't help a spy, a sabotuer. If someone helped a spy, even unwittingly, he'd have been in a heapa trouble, circa 1942. Shouldn't the FBI hold this station attendant up as an example of a citizen not being alert, of even ABETTING the enemy?

[xp38]

Quebec is big. In area it's the biggest province in Canada. It's bigger than Alaska and thus bigger than any US state.