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taco bill
Trad climber
boulder, co
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 8, 2007 - 09:42am PT
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Suspicious package stops traffic: Box left near ATM by accident; contents harmless
The Boulder Police Department's bomb squad spent nearly an hour inspecting a suspicious package left next to a downtown bank Monday — but the black box turned out to be harmless.
"It's an old, rusty canteen I found at the base of the south face of Half Dome (in California's Yosemite National Park) that my friend mailed to me," Timmy O'Neill said of the package's contents.
The professional Boulder climber said he accidentally left the canteen — which was inside a fading black cardboard box wrapped with duct tape — next to the Chase Bank automated-teller machine at One Boulder Plaza on Monday morning.
Around noon, someone spotted the box and called Boulder police officials, who dispatched the bomb squad.
After spotting his name on the box, police called O'Neill while he was nearby at the Boulder Public Library. He rushed back to the bank to straighten out the situation, and said he was caught off-guard by the response to his memory lapse.
"This is a little crazy," O'Neill said.
By then, police had blocked off car and bicycle access to 13th Street between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street for more than an hour. Officers were preparing to use a bomb-defusing robot when O'Neill returned to the scene.
O'Neill was even more shocked when a police officer informed him the bomb squad had been about to transport the box to a safe area to blow it up.
Boulder police Cmdr. Ron Gosage said the bomb squad simply responded to a report of a "suspicious package."
No bomb squad members wore any protective masks or clothing while inspecting the package.
Boulder police spokeswoman Julie Brooks said safety is always the department's first concern, and there isn't any set criteria used to determine whether to use the bomb squad.
"In this situation, it was a package that no one was expecting," she said. "We'll always err on the side of caution, and in the event that it's not something legitimate, then it's a real live training exercise for us."
The situation likely didn't incur any extra costs for the department, Brooks said, because the responding officers were already on duty.
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Tom M
climber
somewhere out there
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Now that's funny.
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MisterE
Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
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Man, I bet he had them all laughing by the end of it. Funny stuff.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Am I the only one who fails to find this fellow amusing?
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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"Am I the only one who fails to find this fellow amusing?"
For now it seems so. I do find your post amusing!
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Don't touch this!
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Am I the only guy that notices that whenever we see a police officer, it's super hard to respect him or her because they're fat and out of shape?
Not to make light of a tragedy by any means, but the footage of officers at the Virginia Tech shooting site showed that a lot of our officers - in charge of maintaining the country's discipline in following our laws - can't maintain the personal discipline to exercise more than they eat.
I know there are exceptions, but jeez! Do they all seem overweight to you guys?!?
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pc
climber
East of Seattle
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TC, Not disagreeing with you overall but the guy on the left looks relatively fit. Just wearing a bullet proof vest.
pc
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Knob Central
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Lots of LAPD are damn fit. Some are knott.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Patrol cops spend a lot of time in their cars, and have to eat on the road. They don't get the convenience of running home to mix up some hummus and cilantro avocado sammiches.
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that girl
Boulder climber
Sacramento, Ca
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I didnt think it was possible for that guy to do anything that would top "the urban ape"
I guess I was wrong.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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A PVC poop tube abandoned by an NPS restroom was once treated as a potential bomb.
Don't know the juicy details though
Peace
Karl
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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it probably only takes one precautionary explosion of a PVC poop tube for the authorities to alter their proceedures...
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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I love how charasmatic and goofy Timmy looks in that shot. Looks almost staged.
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T Moses
Trad climber
Paso Robles
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"it probably only takes one precautionary explosion of a PVC poop tube for the authorities to alter their proceedures..."
I truly gaffawed out loud at this one! Good thing nobody was around for me to be embarassed! Maybe it was the mental picture in my head?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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no sh#t Tmoses, I laughed but good at Ed's post.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Hey Karl, I remember that. I was stuck in traffic while we were waiting for the bomb squad to show up. I asked the traffic control person about it, he described it and I started laughing. I told him to let me through and I would defuse it for them. They wouldn't go for it. The stink bomb had been left at a dumpster at Manure Pile.I think it was right after the Atlanta Olympic bombing and everyone was paranoid.
Ken
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