Perfume bottle closes down wing of Port Authority in Manhattan...

[cynatnite]

NEW YORK - A grenade-shaped perfume bottle left at New York's main bus terminal and a suspicious package in a trash can in Los Angeles forced evacuations Tuesday, reflecting the heightened vigilance surrounding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Neither item spotted Tuesday was found to be dangerous, and the evacuation orders were lifted within two hours. But in both cases, bomb squads were called out and people were ushered out of the building.

In Los Angeles, a suspicious package was found about 6:40 a.m. in or near a downtown federal building that houses government offices, including those for Citizenship and Immigrations Services and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Officer Martha Garcia, a police spokeswoman.

She didn't immediately know how many people were ordered to evacuate.

In New York, one wing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan was evacuated after the bottle was spotted shortly before 11 a.m.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060912/ap_on_re_us/sept11_travel_fears

[Wilber_Stool]

1. I wonder if they expect Osama to

die laughing over this shit.

[VolcanoJen]

3. I mean, really

This is getting pretty sad.

[warrens]

13. Keystone Kops

God, what a pathetic, whiney, inept country we have become under these fascists.

Like Sgt. Rock said in the comics, whatsa matter, you want to live forever?

[Wilber_Stool]

16. Sgt. Rock

Easy Co.

[hatrack]

2. Expect these kinds of stories EVERY SINGLE DAY until November

Every day they'll be breathlessly running this shit on every cable "news" network and local "news" program.

[Matariki]

12. i don't know how these ridiculous false alarms can help the repubs

all it does is serve to annoy people and make them cynical, don't you think?

[karlrschneider]

4. Eau de Anthrax maybe?

:eyes:

[MadHound]

5. I wonder how much money these sorts of shennanigan are costing the public?

Evacuating a building means lost productivity in addition to the costs for determining whether or not a perfume bottle is dangerous. Diverting an airplane over a lost Blackberry means fuel wasted, more overhead, and lost productivity for the passengers, in addtion to the costs of finding them a new flight, etc.

Just another way that this misadministration is driving our economy into the ground.

[Wilber_Stool]

6. And it doesn't cost Osama

one damn cent. That fucker really is a mastermind.

[VolcanoJen]

7. CNN Breaking: LAPD investigate bomb threat at Port of Los Angeles

Two today... wow.

[Laughing Mirror]

8. For your daily dose of mass hysteria

It's almost like a soap opera now on the air every day. The latest terror attack more ridiculous than the last.

[Yavin4]

9. To Be Fair, Some Perfumes Can Be Considered A WMD

I worked with a woman who use to soak herself in perfume that stunk like hell.

[Avalux]

10. Cable News - reality show for Al Qaeda.

Seriously - all they have to do is watch our news coverage for entertainment. :eyes:

[lonestarnot]

11. LA Port investigating a called in threat to Longshore Union as I under-

stand the CNN announcement.

[damntexdem]

14. Homeland Security certainly smells.

And forget the power of petroleum in the world -- better worry about Oil of Olay now. ;-)

[MountainLaurel]

15. "Step away from the Chanel!"

And no one gets hurt.