More trouble in Times Square?
From FOX News:
The New York Police Department has closed off four blocks in Times Square and is investigating a suspicious package, Fox News has confirmed.
The main pedestrian artery in the heart of New York City has been shut down by police from 43th to 47th Streets as authorities investigate the package, found just blocks from where a bomb-laden was SUV was parked Saturday night in a botched terrorist attack.
The bomb squad is now investigating a small, white cooler left on the street, the AP reported. The attention of police is focused on the intersection of 45th Street and Broadway in front of the Marriott Marquis Times Square hotel, according to Fox News reporters on the scene.
...Dozens of police officers have swarmed the area and created a security cordon. Security has been heightened in the city since 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad allegedly parked a crude, homemade carbomb made of gasoline, propane, fertilizer and fireworks. The bomb failed to explode, and no one was harmed in the incident.
Since the botched attack in Times Square the number of suspicious package calls to the police have shot up by nearly a third, the Wall Street Journal reported. Between Sunday and Wednesday, police checked out 493 suspicious packages, compared with 381 in the same period last year.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Maybe some absent-minded person just forgot their cooler.
Maybe some jerk with a "balloon boy" mentality wanted to create a scare.
Maybe it's a bomb intended to murder innocents.
Terrorism certainly throws a wrench into the functioning of a civilized society.
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False alarm. Streets are open again.
Cooler contained water bottles and books.
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