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9/11 Hysteria Expands: U.S. Isn’t Satisfied With Violating The Privacy Of U.S. Citizens, Reaches Across The Atlantic To Violate The Privacy Of European Residents
June 28th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement that would allow law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information - including credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits - about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Seeking to improve information-sharing to fight crime and terrorism, government officials have been meeting since February 2007 to reach a pact. Europe generally has more-stringent laws restricting how governments and businesses can collect and transfer personal data, which have led to high-profile disputes over American demands for such information.
Negotiators have largely agreed on draft language for 12 major issues that are central to a “binding international agreement” making clear that it is lawful for European governments and companies to transfer personal information to the United States, and vice-versa, according to an internal report obtained by The New York Times.
Read MoreBritish Transport Police Can’t Allow K-9’s To Touch Muslims While Searching For “Terrorists”
June 27th, 2008
LONDON, UK - Muslim passengers may not be touched by sniffer dogs of the British Transport Police after complaints that the practice is against Islam. According to the religion, dogs are deemed to be spiritually “unclean”.
A Transport Department report has raised the prospect that animals should only touch passengers’ luggage because it is considered “more acceptable”, the Daily Express reported. The ban may restrict the efficiency of sniffer dog squads which have been trained to spot terrorists at railway stations.
On Thursday night, British Transport Police insisted that it would still use sniffer dogs with any passengers regardless of faith, but handlers would remain aware of “cultural sensitivities”.
The Transport Department report follows the trials of station security measures in the wake of the 2005 London suicide bomb attacks. In one trial, certain Muslim women said the use of a body scanner was also unacceptable because it amounted to being forced to strip.
Read MoreU.S. Customs Agents Seize Reporter’s Laptop Computer At Dulles International Airport
June 25th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Returning from a brief vacation to Germany in February, Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. Agents searched Hogan’s luggage and then popped an unexpected question: Was he carrying any digital media cards or drives in his pockets? “Then they told me that they were impounding my laptop,” says Hogan, a freelance investigative reporter whose recent stories have ranged from the origins of the Iraq war to the impact of money in presidential politics.
Shaken by the encounter, Hogan says he left the airport and examined his bags, finding that the agents had also removed and inspected the memory card from his digital camera. “It was fortunate that I didn’t use that machine for work or I would have had to call up all my sources and tell them that the government had just seized their information,” he said. When customs offered to return the machine nearly two weeks later, Hogan told them to ship it to his lawyer.
Read More“Suspicious Packages” Sent To Elected Chicago Illinois Officials
June 16th, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Police and fire crews responded after a suspicious package was received Friday morning at South Side Ald. Toni Preckwinkle’s office, but no threat was found. Letters containing a powdery substance were sent to several other elected officials.
Fire and police officials said Friday the substance was “benign.”
Friday morning, Preckwinkle’s 4th Ward office at 4659 S. Cottage Grove Ave. received a suspicious package, according to office manager Pam Cummings.
Fire crews responded at 11:18 a.m., for a suspicious package, but it turned out to be an “unfounded” threat, according to Fire Media Affairs Asst. Director Eve Rodriguez.
Cummings said earlier in the day, “criteria” was faxed to the office, apparently notifying employees to keep their eyes open for anything suspicious, and they followed the suggested instructions, she said.
The alderman’s office was not closed, and Cummings would not say why the package was thought to be suspicious, she said.
Read MoreSupreme Court To Decide If Top U.S. Government Officials Are Personally Liable To Those Who Were Kidnapped, Beaten, And Tortured By America After 9/11
June 16th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether top government officials can be held personally liable for allegedly knowing of or condoning mistreatment of people detained after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Oral arguments will be held in the fall.
The decision comes just days after the justices ruled accused terrorists and foreign fighters held overseas by the U.S. military can contest their detentions in civilian courts.
The current appeal deals with Javaid Iqbal, a 40-year-old Pakistani man, who was arrested in New York two months after the 9/11 attacks. He was never charged with any terrorism offenses, although he was convicted of fraud for having false papers and eventually deported.
He later filed a series of lawsuits against top Bush officials, alleging he was beaten by guards during his yearlong detention and that officials personally condoned isolating Muslim and Arab immigrants in a Brooklyn prison wing.
Read More9/11 Hysteria And Illegally Parked Car Pushes FBI Agents And Police Over The Edge - Much Of Downtown Albuquerque New Mexico Closed For Hours As they Piss Away Taxpayer Dollars Over Nothing
June 12th, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - An out-of-state station wagon parked illegally in front of a federal building downtown resulted in much of the center of the city being closed for hours Thursday morning.
Police cordoned off the vehicle and closed from Third to Seventh streets and Central to Gold avenues after discovering the car illegally parked directly in front of the old federal courthouse at Fifth and Gold. People working inside the courthouse were evacuated
Bomb squad members using a robotic device swept the car, breaking in a window of the car that they say had been parked at the site since 1:00 am.
FBI agents tracing the license plate were able to reach the mother of the car’s owner, who in turn notified him of the commotion his parking job had caused.
Read MoreSweden Police Succumb To 9/11 Hysteria: Non-Terrorists Arrested After Failed Chemical Test. Bomb Squad Blows Up Can Of Shaving Cream That Cops Overactive Imaginations Saw Taking Out A Nuclear Power Plant - False Alarm Cost Only $16,583,325 USD
June 11th, 2008
SWEDEN - Two Swedes suspected of plotting an attack on a Swedish nuclear plant were cleared Monday after authorities were unable to explain why small traces of explosives were detected on a shaving cream can one of them was carrying, news agency TT reports.
Prosecutor Gunilla Oehlin said small traces of TNT were detected on the shaving cream can, but there was no explanation for how it got there and there was no reason to suspect the two men of any crime, TT said.
The two men, born in 1955 and 1964, had been working as welders for several weeks on one of three reactors at the Oskarshamn plant in southern Sweden.
They were arrested on May 21 after a routine security control at the entrance to the plant detected traces of highly explosive material on a plastic bag containing toiletry items that one of the men was carrying.
Read MoreNorwegian Engineer Fined For Not Having A Bomb While Passing Through Airport Security Checks
June 7th, 2008
EDINBURG, NORWAY - A Norwegian engineer who protested that he “didn’t have a bomb” while going through airport security checks has been fined £650.
Kjell Bjoennes, 52, became upset when asked to remove his belt as he passed through the security area at Edinburgh Airport on Thursday.
The contracts manager, who earns £120,000 a year after tax, yelled at staff “I have got a belt, not a bomb”.
He appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and pled guilty to breach of the peace.
Police were called after Bjoennes continued to shout about bombs and he was arrested.
Fiscal depute Neil Allan said security staff had asked Bjoennes, from Ankenesstrand, Norway, to remove his belt because it had a heavy buckle.
“There was an exchange of views after which he (Bjoennes) removed the belt and threw it into the receptacle for it to go through the X-ray machine,” said Mr Allan.
Read MoreFBI Sees Terrorists In Every Corner, Claims Incompetent US Police Aren’t Reporting Possible Sightings
June 4th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — State and local police officers fail to notify federal authorities about encounters with possible terrorism suspects up to 10 times a day, a senior FBI official said.
The rate of failure represents missed opportunities to verify possible matches to suspects on the government’s terrorist watch list or to remove individuals from the list whose names had been added by mistake, Leonard Boyle, director of the bureau’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), said in an interview.
Police are asked to contact the center when routine computerized background checks on individuals — who may have violated traffic rules or been involved in a domestic disturbance — trigger electronic alerts from the TSC.
The alerts indicate possible matches to individuals on the government’s watch list of an estimated 400,000 people. Police notifications to the center result in the identification of 40 to 50 verified suspects each day.
Read MoreWhite Powder Turns Up In Envelope In Chandler Arizona Bank’s Night Deposit - Just Aspirin
June 3rd, 2008
CHANDLER, ARIZONA - A Chandler bank employee found an envelope with white powder Monday morning and a fire department hazardous materials team was called in to determine what it was.
The employee found the envelope at about 9:30 a.m. in the night deposit box at the Compass Bank near Chandler Boulevard and Price Road.
Paramedics evaluated a couple more employees because they were also within a few feet of the envelope.
A fire department hazardous materials team determined the powder was ground-up aspirin, according to officials.
There were no traffic problems at the bank, which is at the edge of the Chandler Fashion Center mall.
Crazed Heathrow UK Airport Securty Guards, Drunk With 9/11 Hysteria, Stop Man From Boarding Flight With Transformers T-Shirt Showing Cartoon Gun
June 2nd, 2008
LONDON, UK - Airport guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.
Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.
He thought the boss would “see sense” — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: “My mate set off the alarms and was searched.
“But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’.”
Gun scare … T-shirt broke rules at Terminal 5
Gun scare … T-shirt broke rules at Terminal 5
Read MoreReport Sees US Government Secretly Holding Terror Suspects Aboard Naval Vessels For Torture Interrogations - Govt Admits Holding At Least 26,000 Against Their Will Without Trial, But Report Suggests It Is Closer To 80,000
June 2nd, 2008
A human rights group alleges the U.S. has operated detention facilities for terror suspects aboard Naval vessels, according to a published report in a European newspaper Monday.
A study compiled by Reprieve says the U.S. may have used as many as 17 vessels as ‘prison ships’ where terror detainees were subjected to interrogation as part of the acknowledged rendition program operated since 2001, The Guardian reported.
Information from the study was reportedly compiled through a number of sources, including statements from the U.S. military, several European government bodies and interviews with terror suspects.
Among the alleged ‘prison ships’ were the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu and an additional 15 vessels suspected of having operated around U.S. and UK military officials in the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve’s legal director, said “They choose ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers.”
Read More“Suspicious Bag” Passes Through Security, Closes San Diego California International Airport Terminal
June 1st, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — Reports of a suspicious bag prompted the closure of a terminal Saturday at San Diego International Airport, NBC 7/39 reported.
Terminal 2 was shut down from about 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., delaying numerous flights and causing the cancellation of at least two arrivals and two departures, according to NBC 7/39.
According to airport operations, a suspicious bag passed through security, causing a second screening of all passengers.
The terminal was cleared while searchers looked for the bag. No arrests were made, and the bag was not found, NBC 7/3 reported. Appeared Here
SITE “Intelligence” Group Pushes 9-11 Hysteria With Fallout 3 Video Game Image
May 30th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The SITE Intelligence Group said that the image, showing a ruined Capitol Building in Washington, was created by extremists as part of discussions about the feasibility of nuclear strikes against the US and Britain.
The images appeared in a video, called Nuclear Jihad: The Ultimate Terror, posted on two password-protected websites, al-Ekhlass and al-Hesbah, believed to be affiliated with al-Qa’eda.
SITE also released translated several chatroom threads from al-Ekhlass and al-Hesbah, discussing the possibility of nuclear attacks on the West.
However, it has transpired that far from being a detailed simulation created by terrorist masterminds, the apocalyptic vision is in fact lifted from the computer game Fallout 3, by US game designers Bethesda Softworks.
The game bills itself as “America’s first choice in post-nuclear simulation”, with players roaming a ruined landscape some time after a nuclear war in 2077. Appeared Here
New York City Police Spy On Residents And Visitors From $10 Million Unmarked Helicopter
May 23rd, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty.
A dramatic close-up of Lady Liberty’s frozen gaze fills one of three flat-screen computer monitors mounted on a console. Hundreds of sightseers below are oblivious to the fact that a helicopter is peering down on them from a mile and a half away.
“They don’t even know we’re here,” said crew chief John Diaz, speaking into a headset over the din of the aircraft’s engine.
The helicopter’s unmarked paint job belies what’s inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates—or scan pedestrians’ faces—from high above the nation’s largest metropolis.
Police say the chopper’s sweeps of landmarks and other potential targets are invaluable in helping guard against another terrorist attack, providing a see-but-avoid-being-seen advantage against bad guys.
Read MoreAgent Testifies That FBI Is Unable To Protect US From Terror Attacks
May 23rd, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The FBI’s counterterrorism section is too badly organized and too understaffed to be able to protect the United States effectively against attack, an FBI agent told lawmakers.
“The FBI’s counterterrorism division is ill-equipped to handle the terrorist threat that we’re facing,” Bassem Youssef, a top agent within the FBI’s communications analysis unit, told a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
“FBI’s counterterrorism program cannot properly protect the United States from another catastrophic and direct attack from Middle Eastern terrorists,” he added.
Egyptian-born Youssef, who has been an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 1988, said only 62 percent of posts were filled in the counterterrorism unit.
This chronic staff shortage was forcing the FBI to recruit staff with no relevant experience, specifically with Middle Eastern counterterrorism, possibly lacking pertinent language skills and cultural understanding.
Read MoreSenate Slips Fingerprint Registry Through With Housing Bill - Targets Innocent Americans
May 23rd, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate. Recently, “Server in the Sky” — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t “personal data.”
Yet earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice. The legislation would require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds. The database and fingerprint mandates were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance bills that on Tuesday passed the Senate Banking Committee by a vote of 19-2.
Read MoreFBI Agents Claim They Objected To Interrogation Tactics At U.S. Run Iraq Torture Prison
May 21st, 2008
Shortly after the 2002 captures of Abu Zubaydah and Ramzi Binalshibh, both detained as alleged principal planners in the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI agents passed on their objections to the highest levels of the Justice Department. FBI Director Robert Mueller advised agents not to participate in coercive interrogations, the report said.
The review by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine is the most detailed account of the FBI’s involvement with terrorism suspects, some of whom were subjected to waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. The report credits FBI agents with communicating their concerns to superiors and refusing to participate in abusive sessions.
U.S. Military “Softened Up” Victims At Bush’s Guantanamo Cuba Torture Prison On Behalf Of Chinese Government
May 21st, 2008
Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there.
According to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, an FBI agent reported a detainee belonging to China’s ethnic Uighur minority and a Uighur translator told him Uighur detainees were kept awake for long periods, deprived of food and forced to endure cold for hours on end, just prior to questioning by Chinese interrogators.
UK Government Wants Huge Database Of All Cellphone Calls, eMail And Text Messages, And Users Activity Online
May 19th, 2008
The information would be held for at least 12 months and the police and security services would be able to access it if given permission from the courts.
The proposal will raise further alarm about a “Big Brother” society, as it follows plans for vast databases for the ID cards scheme and NHS patients. There will also be concern about the ability of the Government to manage a system holding billions of records. About 57 billion text messages were sent in Britain last year, while an estimated 3 billion e-mails are sent every day.
Terrorist Squirrel Knocks Out Power At Los Angeles California International Airport
May 19th, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Travelers at LAX Monday had to deal with sweltering heat in addition to long lines and security checks.
The air-conditioning went out in most terminals at 7:30 a.m. and three hours later, the problem had been fixed in only terminals 1 and 4.
The air-conditioning problem stemmed from a “10-second outage caused by a squirrel on one of our commercial lines that feeds the airport,” Joe Ramallo of the Department of Water and Power said.
Carol Tucker of the LADWP said the outage was caused by a squirrel that came into contact with a high-voltage line at a distribution station near the airport, Tucker said.
The terminals were being described as hot and muggy. Near record temperatures were expected Monday.
The squirrel’s condition was not immediately available.
“Suspicious Device” Fuels 9/11 Hysteria, Shuts Down Orlando Florida Roads Surrounding Thrifty Rental Car Business
May 18th, 2008
Police released few details, but say the device was attached to a car inside the rental car parking lot which serves OIA.
The business was evacuated, which caused customers big delays while trying to pick up or drop off rental cars.
Investigators were trying to locate the owner of the car to determine what the device was. Appeared Here
UK Police Target Pedestrians With Airport-Style And Hand-Held Scanners
May 14th, 2008
UK - Police are to use hundreds of airport-style and hand-held weapon detectors in the crackdown on knife crime.
Teams of 15 officers will be deployed across the 10 boroughs in London that have recorded the most knife crime.
Assistant Commissioner Tim Godwin, head of territorial policing in the capital, said officers would be deployed in areas blighted by stabbings to stop and search teenagers suspected of carrying weapons.
Police admit the “in your face policing” is expected to raise community tensions in some areas.
But they say they are getting significant support from communities desperate for them to crack down on the problem.
Officers will use contentious Section 60 powers to enforce effective “no-go” areas for people carrying knives.
The powers enable officers to stop people and search them without the need to have “reasonable suspicion” that they are engaged in wrong doing.
Read MoreNewark New Jersey Airport Security Not So Secure, As Knife Passes Through Security, And Officers Don’t Bother To Report It To Superiors
May 12th, 2008
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - A high-ranking federal security official at Newark Liberty International Airport has been disciplined for failing to report a significant security breach last month, government officials said.
On April 24, a Continental Airlines passenger inadvertently brought a knife with a four-inch blade through a Terminal C checkpoint and surrendered it to an airline employee at the gate, according to information confirmed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s press office.
The supervisor in charge failed to immediately report the matter to superiors, a violation of TSA policy, according to officials who said the hub’s top security leaders only learned of the lapse four days later after an inquiry from The Star-Ledger. Those officials spoke on the condition they not be identified, citing privacy laws.
Although security officials termed the violation serious, the supervisor received a written rebuke, rather than suspension or demotion, the officials said.
Read MoreEssex County Massachusetts Sheriff’s Department Succumbs To 9/11 Hysteria Over White Powder In Envelope At Middleton Jail - Novice News Reporter For Birdcage-Liner Newspaper Obsessed With Game Of Hangman And Jack Bauer
May 10th, 2008
MIDDLETON, MASSACHUSETTS - When an envelope full of a suspicious white powder forced 18 Essex County Sheriff’s Department administrators into quarantine yesterday, TV superhero Jack Bauer helped lend a hand — sort of — at Middleton Jail.
Bauer’s name was the correct answer in a Hangman game that some of the 18 administrators were playing to relieve more than three hours of boredom as a regional hazardous materials team investigated, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Paul Fleming, among those quarantined.
The incident started around 10:20 a.m. when a secretary opened an envelope that turned out to be filled with a white powder.
“When she opened it, there was a white powder. In the spirit of 9/11, unfortunately, and never being too careful, the Police Department and then the Fire Department were notified, and they called the area hazmat team,” Fleming said.
Read MoreSo Much For Billions Wasted On Security Since 9/11 - 73 Year Old Motorist Drives Onto Miami Florida Airport Runway
April 27th, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - Authorities are questioning a 73-year-old driver who sped through a security gate at Miami International Airport and ended up on one of the main runways.
The man has not been identified. Police say he may have been disoriented when he drove passed security Friday morning.
He was quickly detained by police.
Airport spokesman Greg Chin said no flights or landings were delayed. Although the runway was closed for a short time, he said, the airport’s other three runways were not affected.
9/11 Hysteria Crazed UK Signed Secret Pact That Allows US To Monitor British Motorists In Real Time, Access Personal Information On Vehicle’s Owner
April 22nd, 2008
UK - Routine journeys carried out by millions of British motorists can be monitored by authorities in the United States and other enforcement agencies across the world under anti-terrorism rules introduced discreetly by Jacqui Smith.
The discovery that images of cars captured on road-side cameras, and “personal data” derived from them, including number plates, can be sent overseas, has angered MPs and civil liberties groups concerned by the increasing use of “Big Brother” surveillance tactics.
Yesterday, politicians and civil liberties groups accused the Home Secretary of keeping the plans to export pictures secret from Parliament when she announced last year that British anti-terrorism police could access “real time” images from cameras used in the running of London’s congestion charge.
A statement by Miss Smith to Parliament on July 17, 2007, detailing the exemptions for police from the 1998 Data Protection Act, did not mention other changes that would permit material to be sent outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to the authorities in the US and elsewhere.
Read MoreUK Police Targeting Photographers Without Camera “Licenses”
April 19th, 2008
UK - Misplaced fears about terror, privacy and child protection are preventing amateur photographers from enjoying their hobby, say campaigners.
Phil Smith thought ex-EastEnder Letitia Dean turning on the Christmas lights in Ipswich would make a good snap for his collection.
The 49-year-old started by firing off a few shots of the warm-up act on stage. But before the main attraction showed up, Mr Smith was challenged by a police officer who asked if he had a licence for the camera.
After explaining he didn’t need one, he was taken down a side-street for a formal “stop and search”, then asked to delete the photos and ordered not take any more. So he slunk home with his camera.
“People were still taking photos with mobile phones and pocket cameras, so maybe it was because mine looked like a professional camera with a flash on top,” he says.
Read MoreUK Officials Used Anti-Terrorism Laws To Spy On 3 Year Old Child Applying For Primary School
April 13th, 2008
UK - Poole Borough Council has admitted using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), designed to regulate snooping by police and other bodies, to check the usual address of a three-year-old child applying for a primary school place.
The council is unrepentant and said it will continue to use powers available to it under the Act.
Poole Council confirmed to the Register that it used physical surveillance six times in the financial year 2007/2008. Three of these related to school applications and three to investigations by Environmental and Consumer Protection. The council also acquired communications data three times in the period.
Tim Martin, head of legal and democratic services, Borough of Poole, said: “On a small number of occasions, RIPA procedures have been used to investigate potentially fraudulent applications for school places. In such circumstances, we have considered it appropriate to treat the matter as a potential criminal matter.
Read MoreFederal Tax Dollars Pissed Away Investiging White University Student Who Looked Middle Eastern And Was Working On Georgia History Project
April 9th, 2008
HALL COUNTY, GEORGIA - It sounds like the start of a joke, but one University student found nothing to laugh about.
A University student, a history professor, a reporter and an FBI agent met at Gumby’s Pizza on Thursday morning. It was there that FBI agent William J.H. Filson came to confirm that junior Jim Diffly was, in fact, a student working on a class project - and not a terrorist seeking to destroy North Georgia’s chicken plants.
“It was the same as the phone conversation we had,” Diffly said in an interview after the meeting. The agent said he needed to “meet me face-to-face to make sure I wasn’t Middle Eastern.”
In the meeting on Thursday, Filson explained he had to meet with Diffly to make sure he is a “Caucasian student” because of a call he received from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office complaining that Diffly was taking pictures of chicken plants.
Read MoreDumbass Arizona Police Evacuate Rest Area, Call In Bomb Squad After Flagpole Breaks, Flag Falls, And A Moron Thinks Broken Pole Looks Like A Pipe Bomb - Our Tax Dollars At Work
April 8th, 2008
MESA, AZ - A suspected pipe bomb found at a southern Arizona rest stop turned out to be harmless. But it did cause quite a commotion.
A rest area custodian discovered the curious object under an Arizona flag that had fallen from its flagpole on Sunday. What he uncovered resembled a pipe bomb, according to a state Department of Public Safety report.
Witnesses described it as a “cylindrical object, connected by a wire cable,” according to the DPS report.
Not wanting to take chances with public safety, the DPS closed the Canoa Rest area near Tucson and called out the bomb squad to determine what the object was.
The bomb squad discovered that the pipe bomb-like object near the base of the flagpole was actually quite harmless, said DPS Officer Quentin Mehr.
The bomb squad determined the object was just a piece of the broken flagpole that had fallen during the night.
Read More9/11 Hysteria And Beefed Up Security Efforts At Los Angeles International Bear Fruit: Terminal Evacuated Over Graffiti In Men’s Room. Bonus: Extra Points Awarded For Mention Of Women’s Bathroom
March 30th, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA - A terminal at Los Angeles International Airport was partially evacuated Sunday after a man reported seeing writing in a restroom that said a bomb was in the women’s restroom, police said, according to City News Service.
Terminal 2 was partially evacuated shortly after 6 a.m., and authorities checked the building for possible explosives, said Sgt. Jim Holcomb of the airport police.
By about 6:55 a.m., police determined there was no threat and started letting people back in, he said.
“There was minimal interruption,” he said, adding that passenger traffic was low at the time.