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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.
Exactly! This was not a hoax, nor was it a joke, it was a dry run. Feel out the defense and see where they are weak. Time detonations, get the attack down to the second. Boston will be the first detonation of a radiologic bomb or a nuclear weapon. They are padding the ground. Get a life Boston, they are after you.
This made my blood boil.
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I'd like to see some time off for the FBI and city err...employees who wasted taxpayer resources on this nonsense
How long did it take to identify them? I was trying to think of their names, which I think are Ignot and Ur. Those little snots crack me up.
"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."
Of course....no problem
Where are you hearing this? What 'bad guys' are they talking about? Keep me posted please..got to cook dinner.
Good advice. Try it.
This has been so for 30 years or more.
"I'd like to hear the audio for the calls about the suspicious devices."
Same here.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l222/SixgunSuicide/PICT0012-3.jpg
Look at the linked pic and at #387.
It'll be hard to prove in a court that the makers intended them to look like bombs.
A hoax Lite-Brite peg toy, maybe.
If I were to go into a theater and scream "FIREEEEEEEEE" the extra e's would not excuse my guilt.
I'm somewhat amazed that the cops couldn't figure out these were toys.
How long till they start blowing up geocaches?
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"I'd like to see some time off for the FBI and city err...employees who wasted taxpayer resources on this nonsense" Unless we are ready to let terrorist know that it's OK to plant devices under overpasses and other structures - IF THEY ARE MARKED WITH CARTOON CHARACTERS - i'd say the first (jail) option is best.
"Intent follows the bullet"
If you walked into a theater and said "I am fired up to see this movie"! and someone got scared and called the police, should you go to jail? Should the caller?
Here's a bigger litebrite used by some guys for parties and stuff. I guess it depends on whether or not the litebrite thingys were turned on or not. Here's the link to the litebrite people:
They've been made to look like dimwitted, overreacting, paranoid nincompoops. The fact that this was their own doing is irrelevant. They will have blood.
Only an idiot would mistake these for bombs.
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