Suspicious package in DC - from WRC-TV

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

http://www.nbc4.com/index.html

17th St nw closed from P St to R St.

found in back of delivery truck.

happened around 3:30pm

[Jigarotta]

must be *'s codpiece. nt

[unhappycamper]

1. It's probably my plants from Burpee. n/t

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. never mind - all clear according to ch 4

[shadowknows69]

4. I can't believe in this day and age

that delivery trucks still carry packages. They gave us such a fright.:sarcasm:

[napi21]

7. I got the sarcasam, but what WOULD make a package in a delivery

truck suspicious? I can understand the lone backpack outside the WH fence, or even in an airport, but ...a pacakge in a delivery truck???

[Recursion]

14. I think it was the wires sticking out of it

and the clock.

I don't know, though; by the time I got there all I saw was a delivery van with its doors open and all its contents on the sidewalk, and a bunch of cops leaving.

As a final note, stopping on 17th St at the beginning of rush hour is a bit suspicious.

[katinmn]

3. Hmm. pulling out all the stops.

get teevee to point a camera at a package for 6 hours

[tridim]

5. The propaganda catapulters dropped the ball on this one

BushCo shall deal with them appropriately.

[Recursion]

6. *blink*

17th and P? That's a block from where I'm sitting right now... I'll go see if I can report anything.

[Recursion]

12. That was a nice walk

All I saw were a bunch of cop cars driving away. If there was a pile of debris, they took it with them.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. ch 4 now says package was pile of trash!!!!

[katinmn]

9. Trash with wires and a clock attached to it??

BREAKING NEWS: Suspicious Package Found In Delivery Truck

POSTED: 4:06 pm EDT May 16, 2006
UPDATED: 4:09 pm EDT May 16, 2006

WASHINGTON -- A delivery driver stopped near a group of restaurants on 17th Street between Q and P streets returned to his truck and found a suspicious package in the back Tuesday afternoon.

The package, which was discovered at about 3:30 p.m., had wires and what appeared to be a clock on it, authorities said. Police evacuated a two-block area around 17th Street while a bomb squad evaluated the package.

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http://www.nbc4.com/news/9226269/detail.html

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

10. "what appeared to be a clock on it"

[katinmn]

11. well, there's some first-rate reporting. Loved the details.

:sarcasm:

[MountainLaurel]

13. Odds are

Some building contractor dumped a bunch of debris illegally.

[Ian David]

15. Hey, this one might actually contain more than just underpants! Then again

.... it could just be a flashlight:

SAN FRANCISCO
Starbucks flashlight scare recounted

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, January 13, 2006

San Francisco authorities struggled to explain Thursday how they concluded that an object left in a Starbucks bathroom was a bomb, when tests revealed it was nothing more than a flashlight with corroded batteries.

"This appeared, by itself, to be a bomb,'' said police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens, who was the first to relay word from bomb squad investigators Monday afternoon that the object was an "improvised explosive device." The news quickly went national, and at one point CNN was broadcasting developments.

Gittens would not specify what about the device was so convincing, other than to say that all the people who saw it described it as a "tube-shaped cylinder with a fuse.''

<snip>

The man who says he left the flashlight in the Starbucks, Ronald Schouten, 44, remains in custody in County Jail on unrelated matters. He told police he had found the flashlight on the street and thought it could be used for self-defense, but decided to leave it behind after using the restroom.

More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/13/BAGC9GMUSD1.DTL

[joeunderdog]

16. Dildos from South Carolina.

Contraband. Needed to find a home for them.

[0007]

17. Trent Lott's new rug.