Posted on 08/08/2007 1:34:00 PM PDT by kristinn
A reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. said on the air that police will be "detonating" a suspicious package found on a Red Line car of the Metro subway system at the Dupont Circle station.
Dupont Circle, Woodley Park and Cleveland Park stations on the Red Line have been closed. Shuttle buses are being used to ferry passengers.
The suspicious package was found on the last car of a train bound for the Glenmont station in Montgomery County, Md.
The Dupont Circle station has been evacuated.
Record breaking temperatures of 102 degrees in D.C. promise to make this a rush hour to remember, even if the package turns out to just be a package.
My ex uses the red line to get to the MARC..
A Subway sandwich, perhaps. Where’s the meat?
I’ve been riding the Red Line for over 17 years, and every day is an adventure. Every day some new breakdown, some new hassle, some new delay.
But it’s BETTER THAN DRIVING!
Why don’t they have robots that can try to open packages like this, instead of just detonating them. Since most of them turn out to be just ordinary packages, it seems to me it would be a good idea to try to identify who left them, which would be a lot easier if the thing hadn’t been blown to smithereens. In most cases, it would just turn out to be some absent-minded person who forgot something, but in same cases it would probably turn out to be someone (maybe a jihadist, maybe some other brand of sociopath) who deliberately did this to cause great chaos and expense.
Hope you don’t have to take it this evening.
Exactly. Why destroy what could be valuable evidence?
I think sometimes the cops just like an excuse to blow stuff up.
I think they’re trying to find a way to not blow it up as the package is still on the train. Them Metro cars is expensive.
Thank you.
WRC-TV reporter says package was just blown up on the Metro car. Indications are it was just papers and plastic.
Don’t rule out the fifth column wanting to get rid of evidence.
{trigger obligatory FR "that blowed up purdy good" graphic}
I work directly across the street.
They can blow it with a blast of air if they just want to spread it out. I imagine they xray it then decide to robot retrieve it or blow in place with air or gun.
I think they often move the things before blowing them up somewhere else, but they generally don’t take them apart first — which in most cases would eliminate the need to blow them up at all.
It's getting to be slim pickings to find a place one can thank God for living in anymore isn't it.
At least it is still being taken seriously.
After all, it only takes once....
Thank God covers Manhattan and Detroit in my case.
No C-4 found in the plastics I presume?
But suppose it contains anthrax, or lutefisk?
Yuck.
What record?
"detonating"WTOP described the procedure as "disturbing" the package!
“A suspicious package that ended up containing paper and cardboard led authorities to briefly close three subway stations near downtown as the afternoon rush hour began, officials said ...
... The stations reopened at about 5 p.m. after bomb technicians destroyed the box with a water cannon, Asato said.”
(Excerpt-only site, sorry)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/08/national/a132634D80.DTL&tsp=1
my guess: some homeless dudes worldy possessions.
“..anthrax, or lutefisk?”
Maybe someone should start shipping lutefisk to Pres. Allmyjihadi in Iran.
Now that was an unpleasantly wicked idea: a non-bomb that becomes lethal when blown up on suspicion of having been a bomb. (Please, not lutefisk!!!)
Ping.
Denver, CO is the one on my list to Thank God for not being in anymore!
Someone’s boss is not going to be happy they decided to take their work home with them! (o;
I’m glad this turned out to be another false alarm, and not something more serious.
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