Posted on 01/30/2006 1:27:30 PM PST by OrangeDaisy
Police currently have Interstate 40 near Fesslers Lane [in downtown Nashville] shut down in both directions.
Police say officers are investigating a suspicious vehicle that they believe may have weapons and an explosive device inside. The ATF is also on the scene and police are requesting the bomb squad.
Traffic is backed up in the area so drivers should avoid the area.
Local news says the following: Law enforcement received a "tip" that this vehicle would be coming through Nashville. The interstate is now back open in both directions. It was closed for an hour and fiftenn mintues. Silver Vehicle Man, woman, baby & two other men Cache of weapons including AK-47 and explosive devices. Bomb squad detonated explosives.
Keep us posted!
Any word on where the people in the car are now? Sounds like a really weird deal, but then some people are really weird. :^)
SUV?
Damn Muzzies! Going straight for the country music! Barbarians
"Silver Vehicle Man, woman, baby & two other men Cache of weapons including AK-47 and explosive devices. Bomb squad detonated explosives."
lol Got a adjective on the vehicle but not the perps..
Look out! It's the Silver vehicle man!!
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On the serious side.. this can't be good..
I'm at the office, so I'm getting my description via phone. My mom said, "it looks like an SUV."
If it was an SUV, they probably would have included THAT in the report too.
Potentially, trying to rattle us on the way to either the SOTU tomorrow or the Super Bowl Sunday.
As for the lack of adjectives, it's really starting to piss me off!!
Bump for later. Hope all turns out okay.
Hey! I've seen them!
LOL! I was typing too fast and neglected to punctuate!
Try this: Silver vehicle. Man, woman, baby & two other men. Cache of weapons including AK-47 and explosive devices.
Oh dear, my son just back from a business conference in Nashville.
Looks like it might be reopened now?
http://www.wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4430174
All's well that ends well...
Nah, local TV news websites are deliberately vague so that you will tune in for "News at 4" (and 6 and 10).
No prob OD, I just was pokin some fun.. and cracking myself up. Easily amused lol.
^^
WHOA.
Yep, I'm hearing that it is. Rush hour will still be nasty due to the backup. I-40 through Nashville is heavily traveled at 3 in the AM much less 3 PM.
..."Silver Vehicle Man..."
Lmfao!
I think we now have a series contender here for another FR classic.
More from WSMV.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities shut down all eight lanes of Interstate 24/40 in downtown Nashville Monday afternoon after stopping a sport utility vehicle and finding firearms inside.
Officers also found a device that was detonated on suspicion it might be an explosive.
Reports said handguns, a sawed off shotgun, an AK-47 rifle and body armor were found in the vehicle after it was stopped for failing to signal a lane change [driving like everyone else in Nashville!].
Traffic backed up for miles in both directions as the interstate was closed for 75 minutes. It reopened about 3:15pm.
Moonshiners?? :)
According to one report it was an SUV..
Updated: 1/30/2006 3:24:53 PM
The interstate re-opened about a half an hour later.
LOL, I see you remember that guy.
Worse yet, I've got this song stuck in my head now.
I'm your silver vehicle, baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
I'm your silver vehicle, woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya (love ya)
I need ya (need ya)
I want ya, got to have you, child
Great God in heaven, you know I love you
Oh, you know I do
Awesome picture! Actually it reopened 75 minutes later according to Channel 4 news.
Wonder if these will be another of those interesting "only in Tennessee" stories that never registers on the national radar.
Did they ever learn who murdered that woman in the DMV who knowingly was selling genuine licenses to illegal immigrant arabs who travelled down from NY/NJ AFTER the 9-11 attacks? Did those guys ever get deported? I know that they were not sentenced to anything more than "time served" (all were caught based on a tip and the transaction was observed). She had also been arrested and was murdered less than a day after she was released on bail. (firebomb in her back seat).
One report says that the ATF had been looking for thembecause they were suspected of selling weapons in housing projects?
We'll likely never know what these people were doing! However if it had happened in NYC or LA or Hollyweird, it would be on all 3 cable news networks ad nauseum right now.
My favorite Tennessee "national security" story that we never got an update on is: Two Israelis Arrested in east Tennessee Transporting Suspicious Materials
"My favorite Tennessee "national security" story that we never got an update on is: Two Israelis Arrested in east Tennessee Transporting Suspicious Materials "
What happens in Tennessee stays in Tennessee. Trust me...you don't want to know.
Investigation invloving arms sales at Napier Housing (da hood)
Curious what race, ethnicity, religion etc would be allegedly dealing arms at arguably nashville's worst public housing?
pretty brazen peckerwood....if that's the case
i bet dog fighting and meth or homegrown are involved somewhere
i had to go around this btw today
weird story. pls. keep me updated.
Now I see. I was going Murfreesboro Rd. to Foster Avenue at 4:00, stopped at the library at Foster and Thompson Lane, got on I-440 via Nolensville Rd. (which was totally backed up towards the Murfreesboro Rd. exit) but had clear sailing to Lebanon after that.
Maybe the terrorists heard I was going to Lebanon and thought I might be their homey. Seriously though, there was an incident some time back where some Mossad guys were running wild in a van all around the Oak Ridge area, causing many residents to believe that they were terrorists. As no further information on THAT came to light I have to believe the Feds were hosting some Israelis who got tanked up and abused their guest status.
I sure would breathe a lot easier if our borders were secured instead of being left porous for the benefit of Cheap Labor contributors. When the inevitable live round comes up in this Russian Roulette National Insecurity Game only the innocent will suffer.
Feds tipped off locals that this vehicle was on its way to the Napier Housing project to sell illegal weapons (yes - I know - vehicles can't sell weapons). Wonder how the Feds knew? Some of that dastardly spying that the Bush Administration does that violates everyone's rights? /sarcasm off/ No names have been released yet, but the man apparently has multiple felony convictions and the woman was riding in the front seat with the baby on her lap. I'll bet they do more time for not having the infant properly secured than they will for selling weapons illegally!
or the murdered woman connected to another driver's licenses for illegals scam involving middle easterners conveniently forgotton
i know i sound tinfoily
Tonight the local news reports say that the baby is "with relatives"..
illegal weapons sale carries a 5 year minimum no parole sentence in the Feds..
usually more...
are you talking about that story out of Memphis a couple years back? what ever happened with that?
Just don't ask me to clean it off.
Ooh icky aaargh!
yep..that would be the story....i think she got gunned down when a car pulled alongside or something
MSM never touched it
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