A “suspicious package” left in a cooler outside a hotel has prompted another evacuation of Times Square and surrounding streets. Developing…
UPDATE at 5/7/10 6:48:57 pm:
Developing… into nothing. The cooler contained water bottles. A bit edgy, are we?
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efuseakay Fri, May 7, 2010 10:58:52am |
Of course, it'll amount to nothing, and the wingnuts will call this some ObamaO conspiracy to skeer us into submission!
It's funny in a way, seeing how much they resemble the left wackos when Bush was President. And they were anti-American!
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lawhawk Fri, May 7, 2010 10:59:56am |
46th and Broadway is the same location as the Shahzad SUV bombing fail. That means we're talking about the Marriott Marquis again.
More here.
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wrenchwench Fri, May 7, 2010 11:00:47am |
The package will be stripped of its citizenship and deported.
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Cato the Elder Fri, May 7, 2010 11:00:49am |
re: #1 efuseakay
Of course, it'll amount to nothing, and the wingnuts will call this some ObamaO conspiracy to skeer us into submission!
It's funny in a way, seeing how much they resemble the left wackos when Bush was President. And they were anti-American!
Of course?
It'll amount to nothing until it amounts to something, and that day may not be today, but it is a guaranteed future event.
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Shiplord Kirel Fri, May 7, 2010 11:01:32am |
re: #1 efuseakay
Of course, it'll amount to nothing, and the wingnuts will call this some ObamaO conspiracy to skeer us into submission!
It's funny in a way, seeing how much they resemble the left wackos when Bush was President. And they were anti-American!
Reichstag fire! Marshall Martial law!
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lawhawk Fri, May 7, 2010 11:02:10am |
re: #2 lawhawk
Clarification - the suv was on 45th - but the Marriott is located between 45th and 46th.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 7, 2010 11:03:55am |
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lawhawk Fri, May 7, 2010 11:08:11am |
re: #8 Obdicut
Via the Daily News:
The section of W. 45th St. between 7th and 8th Aves. was shut down, along with 7th Ave. between 45th and 46th Sts.A short time earlier, police responded to another suspicious package report on 8th Ave. and 45th St. - near where accused bomber Faisal Shahzad parked his explosives-laden SUV.
The package turned out to be someone's lunch, police said.
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the number of reported suspicious packages was up about 30% since last Saturday's botched bombing.
There were 145 calls on Thursday alone, Kelly said, up from the typical 90-100 per day.
It's also the eighth suspicious package reported since Saturday.
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Mark Pennington Fri, May 7, 2010 11:08:13am |
re: #3 wrenchwench
The package will be stripped of its citizenship and deported.
Zing!
It will hopefully turn out to be nothing but I'm glad they are being vigilant.
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Filala Fri, May 7, 2010 11:10:43am |
This may or may not turn out to be a false alarm, but there's no doubt that America is in extreme danger from radical Islam. We've been lucky so far but our luck can't last forever.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, May 7, 2010 11:11:42am |
re: #11 Filala
This may or may not turn out to be a false alarm, but there's no
doubt that America is in extreme dangerfrom radical Islamjust about any nutball with an axe to grind. We've been lucky so far but our luck can't last forever.
My $.02.
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Filala Fri, May 7, 2010 11:13:11am |
re: #12 MrSilverDragon
True, but don't rule out radical Islam, you're letting political correctness get the best of you.
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Obdicut Fri, May 7, 2010 11:13:40am |
re: #9 lawhawk
Heh. At least they're not freaking out about Lite-brites.
Overall, New Yorkers seem to have pretty healthy attitudes towards the risks of terrorism, not letting themselves get overwhelmed by it.
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Mocking Jay Fri, May 7, 2010 11:14:04am |
re: #13 Filala
True, but don't rule out radical Islam, you're letting political correctness get the best of you.
She wasn't ruling it out, just making the statement more inclusive.
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Shiplord Kirel Fri, May 7, 2010 11:16:07am |
re: #7 Dark_Falcon
BUY GOLD!!1 BUY GUNZ!11 BUY SURVIVAL SEEDS!!11
/Glenn Beck
Post-apocalypse trading session:
Beckian Survivalist: "Say there, Jorge, I sure would like a bag of that coffee you brought on that wagon of yours."
Mexican trader: "Er, what you give for it?"
Beckian: "Why, a solid gold Krugerrand, genuine, apartheid era no less."
Trader: (Mumbling) "Norteno loco." (Louder) "What I do with gold? I can't eat gold, neither can my mules."
Beckian: (Desperate now) "Er, what will you take?"
Trader: "Well, your neighbor offer brand new Levi's, my size even, and a stack of Penthouse magazines."
Beckian: "I don't have stuff like that! Two Krugerrands then!"
Trader: "Can't eat two either. Have a good day."
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MrSilverDragon Fri, May 7, 2010 11:16:12am |
re: #13 Filala
True, but don't rule out radical Islam, you're letting political correctness get the best of you.
Political correctness? Me? BWAHAHAHA.
That is one thing I most certainly not... but worth the laugh nonetheless. :)
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MrSilverDragon Fri, May 7, 2010 11:19:57am |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 7, 2010 11:26:09am |
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel
Post-apocalypse trading session:
Beckian Survivalist: "Say there, Jorge, I sure would like a bag of that coffee you brought on that wagon of yours."
Mexican trader: "Er, what you give for it?"
Beckian: "Why, a solid gold Krugerrand, genuine, apartheid era no less."
Trader: (Mumbling) "Norteno loco." (Louder) "What I do with gold? I can't eat gold, neither can my mules."
Beckian: (Desperate now) "Er, what will you take?"
Trader: "Well, your neighbor offer brand new Levi's, my size even, and a stack of Penthouse magazines."
Beckian: "I don't have stuff like that! Two Krugerrands then!"
Trader: "Can't eat two either. Have a good day."
That's what the guns are for: to take stuff from people who aren't white.
/not entirely joking
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Sinistershade Fri, May 7, 2010 11:30:42am |
I remember a time when pretty much all packages in Times Square were "suspicious."
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 7, 2010 11:35:15am |
re: #26 Sinistershade
I remember a time when pretty much all packages in Times Square were "suspicious."
Thankfully, those times are over.
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sagehen Fri, May 7, 2010 11:42:18am |
re: #4 Cato the Elder
Of course?
It'll amount to nothing until it amounts to something, and that day may not be today, but it is a guaranteed future event.
It already amounts to a test of our response.
"hey wow, we can disrupt the busiest tourist zone in town for hours, and monopolize cable news, for the price of a picnic cooler."
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Mark Pennington Fri, May 7, 2010 12:03:16pm |
re: #24 Varek Raith
False alarm.
It was a cooler full of books and water bottles according to MSNBC.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, May 7, 2010 12:12:55pm |
re: #11 Filala
This may or may not turn out to be a false alarm, but there's no doubt that America is in extreme danger from radical Islam. We've been lucky so far but our luck can't last forever.
We haven't just been lucky, we've been smart, and God willing, our smartness will continue.
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Mark Pennington Fri, May 7, 2010 12:29:58pm |
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MandyManners Fri, May 7, 2010 7:23:17pm |
I'd be a bit edgy, too, if my city had been attacked in 1993 and 2001 with devestating results.
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jordash1212 Fri, May 7, 2010 11:19:13pm |
In Israel they would have detonated this and moved on about their business. It would not have made the press or spoken about at the water cooler. Oh how I miss living there.
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pons Fri, May 7, 2010 11:58:55pm |
Hi there. I rarely comment to talkbacks but I feel compelled to do so now.
First allow me to be glad that it was "only" a cooler, and my congratulations to whoever reported it.
All those making fun of it are wrong. It is NOT over reacting, it is not a reason to invoke martial low (you sir know what you are), but it is a sobering reminder of how close those who want to harm Democracy and Liberty are of being successful.
Living in Israel for more that 20 years has taught me not to be over confident. I remember a time when I had to teach my kids not to kick soda cans or indeed anything on the street.... Yes, I'm sure that they were all of them soda cans, or stones or whatever, but still I didn't take a chance (would have you, smart asses?) because once the thing really got boom!, and somebody got hurt.
And you keep poking fun, and deride the authorities about they over reaction, and feel superior for doing so. Me, I'll hope that every time it is a cooler, and that everybody is safe.
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