Police Evacuate Car Rental facility in Queens New York. Bomb squad called in.

Lucianne.com ^ | July 3, 2003 | Lucianne Staff

[aristeides]

Late Breaking News!

Police Evacuate Car Rental facility in Queens New York. Bomb squad called in. Details to follow...

[aristeides]

All there is so far.

[vin-one]

man on the phone now, some live pictures, coming in on fox

[BrooklynGOP]

Well, that explains it. I took Grand Central to work today (to LI) and saw all kinds of NYPD bomb squad trucks going west bound.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Can I be first? I bet terrorists rented a car to make a car bomb, and the new guy forgot about the bomb in it and brought it back?

[vin-one]

News hounds keep speculating, with nothing to go on
Police in live pics don't look to excited,

[Catspaw]

Do you remember the 1st WTC bombers? After the bomb went off, one of them went back to the rental agency and asked for his deposit back because the van was stolen. Unfortunately for him, the cops had already IDed the van via its VIN (numbers on the axle, I do believe).

[Frank_Discussion]

Naw, just pinching pennies for a new box-cutter...

I hope this turns out ok.

[nutmeg]

Is this at JFK Airport?

[John Beresford Tipton]

Maybe it's Rent a Wreck?

[Tree of Liberty]

No, this is at La Guardia

[aristeides]

Is this at JFK Airport?

I don't know. If police activity could be observed on the Grand Central this morning, maybe not.

[TomGuy]

Fox News Alert banner is covering up much of the action.

MSNBC is also showing this---their banner isn't as obnoxious.

CNN also showing this.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Good catch. And Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck.

[Tree of Liberty]

Well, there are those reports that Al Queda is short on funds.

[vin-one]

let me be the first,

I need to get in the shower...
This could be Series, and hugh....

Still nothing from the news hounds,,,,,,speculation is all they have right now

[GWB00]

This has nothing to do with this story, but I remember about 12 years ago I was in New York City with my dad and we asked our Arab speaking taxi driver to take us to the Avis dealer at La Guardia. The guy ended up taken us to Hertz. He insisted that we told him "Hertzes" instead of Avis. Maybe someone is encountering same the problem now. Just a theory based on my experience with Arabs and rental dealerships in New York City.

[TomGuy]

Area being evacuated of people, so maybe there is something in the rental car.

[For_God_and_Country]

This car rental agency is about two blocks away from LaGuardia Airport. The airport is just across the bay from Shea Stadium and about a one minute flight away from midtown manhattan. You can see the Empire State Building from the terminal. Also this airport's landing path takes planes low and slow over the Grand Central Parkway. Any plane coming in would be a turkey shoot for a stinger missile and may even be damaged by a potent car bomb exploded on the parkway beneath it. Im on pass today, so I have no further info at this time.

[ken5050]

I believe that several of the local station have live webcam shots from LAG...you might do a search..