Posted on 01/31/2007 12:04:30 PM PST by Howlin
BOSTON -- Four "hoax devices" were found at several Boston locations Wednesday, hours after officials detonated a suspicious package on an elevated structure above the Sullivan Square Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station.
The additional packages were found at the Boston University Bridge, the Longfellow Bridge and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus streets. A device described by officials as a pipe bomb was found in the basement of the Tufts New England Medical Center at 185 Harrison Ave.
A spokesman for the Boston Police Department said that all of the packages appeared to be similar.
"Our device was not an active device. We are still treating the area as a crime scene. There were no injuries. Everyone was evacuated properly, and everyone now back to their locations," Tufts New England Medical Center's Brooke Hynes said.
Mayor Tom Menino said that all of the packages found posed no danger, but the incidents remained under investigation. Storrow Drive eastbound was shut down for a brief time, and the MBTA suspended service on the Red Line and planned to bus afternoon commuters between Kendall and Park Street stations.
Earlier Wednesday, the state police bomb squad was called and detonated the package in Sullivan Square just before 10 a.m. Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were "consistent with an improvised explosive device," but they said it had no explosives. They determined that the device was not dangerous, but destroyed it as a precaution.
"We determined that this device, in particular, was not explosive," said MBTA Lt. Sal Venturelli.
He said MBTA police were told about the package by a transit passenger who spotted it on a column that supports Interstate 93. The parcel was located on an elevated structure above the bus way and below I-93 in the Charlestown section of Boston at about 8 a.m.
"This is a perfect example of our passengers taking part in Homeland Security," Venturelli said.
An investigation will be conducted into how the package got there and when, he said.
Train service on the Orange Line between Sullivan Square and Wellington stations was suspended in both directions. No injuries were reported.
The northbound side of I-93 was closed, causing significant traffic backups. Motorists were not allowed to access the highway near Sullivan Square coming up from the south.
Hoax / publicity stunt gone bad / stupid joke...
I'd like to see some jail time for the jerks who wasted city and FBI resources
Little by little, inch by inch, they push and probe.
"left them in suspicious places says it all!"
They left LED signs in dark places where pedestrans walk, near schools like MIT and Harvard. You'd see them in daytime too, if you stuck them under a bridge.
And they're magnetic, so you can't stick them on concrete or a tree.
This is the 21st century version of an advertising poster, it's paperless and battery powered.
Maybe some stupid Demoncrat politician will call for banning these LED devices!
Can you link the thread about the woman being threatened by Muslim extremists, please?
I know others who have been threatened as well. Don't want to go into it here, but if you can link the thread for me, it would be appreciated.
I think the things which have been in place for two to three weeks were the billboards and not the light-up devices. Also, judging from the way the ad company uses guerrilla, it could be the light-up circuit boards or devices or whatever the heck they are, are the guerrilla portion of the advertising scheme. While it does sound as if the ad company got approval for the billboards I don't think they addressed the thingies which were placed around stuff.
Sorry if I don't sound very articulate. I don't have any clue what to call the thingies which prompted the calls to 911.
I understand all that, it still doesn't change the fact that valuable resources were used because of the 'misunderstanding'!
At the very least, the people behind this should have to pay for all the expenses associated with the scare.
LOL, I didn't realize it actually was flippin'.
LOL, look at post #387.
Aw c'mon. People are only terrorized if they choose to be.
I've driven/walked by a hundred boxes/paper bags in the last five years without wetting my pants over the event.
If Osama is still breathing, he is laughing his head off about how successful he's been in turning the American public into a crowd of fainting pansies.
If the people who put the signs up did it with ANY malice then I'd agree, but if they are punished for this, who will ever want to do anything ever again, if someone else can overreact and cost the taxpayers a bazillion?
Let's dig up Orson Welles and punish him for War of the Worlds.
These horrible threats are also under bridges in nine other cities and have been for at least a week, with no bomb threats called in.
Boston is the place where they can't even build a road with a tunnel.
As expensive as it was, I don't see this being Interferenceinc's fault.
I must be awfully naive because I don't see that he's flipping the bird either.
Here I am thinking the little cartoon character's a nurse carrying a needle & is about to give someone a shot. I *guess* I see now that it's flipping the bird.
Now that the truth is known.......
you know what they are going to say.......
It's Bush's fault.
Will find, brb.
I reserve the right to revise and amend-
The bad guys may be the ones who called in "suspicious device" calls, not the folks who put up little magnetic lights.
They may have given a somewhat inflated description of the threat, causing a big reaction.
Been waiting all day to get to a computer to see how long it took for someone to post, for the 5,011 time "dry run". I never get an answer as to how a dry run telling us what they are about to do would help.
In any case what say you now?
ROFL
Look for jackpot123 on those sites and you'll see pix, though he (or she) took down the vids of them being placed in Boston (for some reason LOL).
Okay, so let me see if I have this right cos I'm a Mom to a 30 year old who probably would know all about this stuff and while I might...might recognize the figures, I still have a couple of questions.
The billboards are separate from the little glowy things, right? Do you know if the billboards reference little glowy things being placed around the city? If I remember correctly they're called moononites? So, it could be possible the ad company didn't let the 'authorities' know about the little glowy things and so when some olderly (like me, not really elderly but yes, olderly) person noticed the thingies, they didn't recognize it and the authorities didn't either?
(jeez, I'm sounding more and more inarticulate!)
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