Norfolk releases 911 call that prompted terrorism scare

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | January 25, 2005 | MATTHEW ROY

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By MATTHEW ROY, The Virginian-Pilot © January 26, 2005 | Last updated 9:11 PM Jan. 25

NORFOLK — City authorities released a recording Tuesday of the 911 call that prompted a large-scale counterterrorism response last month at Norfolk Naval Station.

The recording bears out what city officials have said – that the anonymous caller was a heavily-accented woman who was difficult to understand. She was on the phone for a mere 27 seconds before hanging up.

[SlowBoat407]

Audio is pretty unintelligible, but there is link in the article for the curious.

[doug from upland]

Whoever took the original call had a hearing problem. It was a Boston terrier alert. What a mistake.

[Gunslingr3]

LOL hard. She's trying to say the bus drivers are drinking intoxicants. She says they're alcoholics at the end. How many billions do we spend on Homeland Security? There's a sweet 60" Plasma screen TV in the Florida Department of Health's Children's Medical Services HQ bought with your bio-terrorism tax dollars. It might be used to watch the Weather Channel one day, no doubt more clearly than the brand new 27" TV they had before. That's the egregious waste, not the nonsense like this...