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2007-08-09 Home Front: WoT

Suspicious package alert disrupts DC subway

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Posted by lotp 2007-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 A bomb squad X-rayed the box found aboard a train stopped at the Dupont Circle station on the Red Line a mile from the heart of downtown Washington and discovered it was full of ~~Washington Post newspapers. ~~The bomb squad has taken possession of the papers and is recycling them appropriately within the District as bird cage lining material.~~~~

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-09 02:53|| 2007-08-09 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 So much for the "lost and found" dept.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-09 10:10|| 2007-08-09 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I think somebody's grant proposal just got hosed down.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-08-09 12:56|| 2007-08-09 12:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I think this is an answer for the mis-guided NYT writer that wanted ideas for terrorists: fill subways, busses, etc. with 'suspicious packages' at rush hour in any large city and watch the place shut down. synchronize severa; of these throughout the country and there is a ready made economic disaster.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-09 14:38|| 2007-08-09 14:38|| Front Page Top

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