Comments | elfs: Ahhh! A loose plastic bag! Call the bomb squad!

elfs

Ahhh! A loose plastic bag! Call the bomb squad!

Mar 04, 2009 09:30

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shockwave77598 March 4 2009, 18:07:49 UTC

Hey, that bag could have held anything, man! Anything at all. Terrorist poisons. A nucular bomb. A hundred Jihadists in a bus. Who knows?

sirfox March 4 2009, 18:15:43 UTC

I remember a comment from somebody saying that terrorists don't need any sophisticated bio/chem terror items. They could paralyze an entire city by just kicking and open 55 gallon drum (painted with "ANTHRAX" in big, yellow letters) half full of flour out of the back of a truck on the bay bridge, the investigation, panic, and cleanup would be grabbing headlines for days, and all with a budget of less than $200, including the truck rental.

I don't know if it's better that we over-respond like this, or worse.

sirfox March 4 2009, 18:16:01 UTC

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hugh_mannity March 4 2009, 18:58:17 UTC

Back in the 1970s when the IRA was blowing up London landmarks, I was working at St. Thomas' Hospital -- right across the river from the Houses of Parliament. We had several bomb scares in the area -- usually only resulting in small detours for a couple of hours during which the hospital would be on standby for casualties ( ... )

whatthehay March 5 2009, 02:13:39 UTC

Thank you for the pictures and information. I work in the Jackson Federal Building, About 7:30am they came over the intercom and announced that the First Avenue entrance was closed until further notice.

We could barely see the roped off street on 1st and Marion.

No one told us what was going on and then announced the entrance was open again.

All in a day's work.