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2007-05-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by GK 2007-05-14 11:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Update:
The FBI released a man Monday who was suspected of causing the evacuation of an Amtrak passenger train near Denver. It turns out that there was never a threat on boar [sic] the train Sunday night. The FBI calls the incident a "complete misunderstanding."

Special Agent Rene VonderHaar of the Denver FBI office says the man was let go Monday morning after several hours of questioning.

The man was on his way to a vacation. He was taken to Denver International Airport to board a flight. His name and hometown have NOT been released. There's no word on what was in the man's bag, or why a bomb-sniffing dog focused on it for a time./em>

The train crew alerted authorities after the man threatened passengers and crew with a weapon and a bomb, and the FBI release him as harmless? I do hope it's because they're following him as he goes to meet the head of Al Qaeda in America.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-14 12:28|| 2007-05-14 12:28|| Front Page Top

#2 In the old days, a couple of Conductors would've tossed him off the moving train.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-05-14 12:33|| 2007-05-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 So he alledgedly tried to blow up a train; did he burn his lips on the exhaust pipe?

Posted by USN. Ret. 2007-05-14 13:58|| 2007-05-14 13:58|| Front Page Top

#4 "This train is going to Havana!"

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-14 14:25|| 2007-05-14 14:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Last time I took Amtrak my conductor hat the little Wahhab knit cap, bald head, and full beard.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-14 16:47|| 2007-05-14 16:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps the train crew were the ones needing to be locked up. It is Amtrak, after all.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-05-14 18:12|| 2007-05-14 18:12|| Front Page Top

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