At New York LaGuardia, another suspicious item and passengers forced to wait outside in the street.” At Logan airport, delays over suspicious packages and passengers. The bomb squad sent in its robot, inside a hair dryer. That night, on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer,” it was reported, “In downtown Seattle, streets were shut down due to a suspicious backpack. “An NJ Transit customer flagged down a security worker after seeing a lone package near the city subway entrance of the station, which sits near NJ Transit’s Newark headquarters,” according to the Herald News. New Jersey Transit reported an uptick in “suspicious package” reports. On April 16, the day after the bombing, the New York Daily News reported police in New York were responding to a “surge in calls about suspicious packages across the city.” Gothamist reported the New York Police Department (NYPD) had received 77 reports of “suspicious packages.” (One year ago, in the same period, there had been 21 reports of “suspicious packages.”) Would national and local news media organizations be reporting every single one of these if there had not been a bombing? Perhaps, but, to the extent that news media are paying closer attention because of the Boston bombing, they are only fueling anxiety and hysteria. What is the effect of all these news reports of “suspicious packages,” which more than ninety percent of the time are completely harmless? As one ABC News correspondent put it, Americans are “seeing something and saying something in droves.” Police regularly receive reports of “suspicious packages,” but, obviously, Americans are all jittery in the aftermath of the Boston bombing. A “suspicious package,” which the bomb squad responded to in Lemon Grove, California, was found to contain sausages. Police responded to three reports of “suspicious packages” in Salem, Oregon, but nothing hazardous was found. In San Francisco, a library was shut down and a school was evacuated. That evening, a main Manhattan bus terminal was shut down over a reported “suspicious package.” It was a leather bag with a comforter and possibly some clothing. The police actually appeared to find something, as Courthouse News reported “a package had plant fertilizer and a galvanized pipe.” But, was it dangerous? Police did not provide additional information. Two Hawaii courthouses were shut down on Thursday. In Passaic, New Jersey, the bomb squad responded to a “suspicious package” on the steps of Abraham Lincoln Middle School that turned out to be a “student’s backpack.” A “suspicious item” reported in Montebello, California, was a “metal water bottle.” Deputies in Arcadia, Florida, reported a woman had received a “suspicious package” from Mexico containing white powder and a HazMat team had responded. Since the bombing, there has been a spike in reported “suspicious packages.”Īn elementary school in Loudoun County in Virginia was evacuated this morning when a teacher received a package she thought contained a “suspicious substance.” It was deemed harmless by police. It has been more than ten days since the bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon took place. “I so appreciate (the police) looking out for us,” Parker said.Creative Commons-licensed Flickr photo by Elvert Barnes taken on Septemat Foggy Bottom Metro stop in DC She said she and other neighbors were happy the police took it so seriously. Parker said she later saw the bomb squad robot coming down the street, then police took down the tape blocking the road. Members of the Chinese Evangelical Church at the corner of 80th & 8th were blocked off inside the crime scene tape, and congregated on the sidewalk. She said police initially blocked off 8th between 82nd and 83rd, but later expanded that down to 80th. Karla Parker, who lives on 83rd and 8th, said a police officer knocked on her door this morning and told her to stay inside and away from the windows. Seattle Police blocked off 8th Avenue NW at 83rd Street with a police cruiser and crime scene tape.
Seattle Police closed 8th Avenue NW between NW 80th and NW 83rd streets Sunday morning after finding a “suspicious package” in the middle of the road. The bomb squad has picked up the device and the street has been reopened.
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