NY Bridge Shut Down - Suspicious Packages

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by NYfutbolfan, Mar 28, 2003.

  1. NYfutbolfan

    NYfutbolfan Member

    Dec 17, 2000
    LI, NY
    The Williamsburgh Bridge has been shut down as 3 men have climbed columns with packages.

    Rumor #1 - Middle easterners with explosives.

    Rumor #2 - Massachusetts men who drank too much.

    As of now, they've been arrested and taken into custody. Whoever they are is not the point of this thread.

    New Yorkers are very much in tuned to what is going on around them. 2 years ago, when the first plane hit tower #1, alot of us thought it was an accident. 2 years later, our first thought is that it is a terrorist attack. Our lives have changed.

    For now, we go back to work and we'll wait to hear the official word later today.
     
  2. obie

    obie New Member

    Nov 18, 1998
    NY, NY
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    All Manhattan-bound bridges are closed as a precaution right now.
     
  3. csc7

    csc7 New Member

    Jul 3, 2002
    DC
    rumor #2 wins. three drunk guys who wanted to climb the bridge. morons
     
  4. obie

    obie New Member

    Nov 18, 1998
    NY, NY
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Story here.

    Someone needs to post that "Way to go, jackass" picture of Hasselhoff and Gary Coleman here.
     
  5. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah but this is the best part:
    In the week since U.S.-led military troops invaded Iraq, the NYPD's new counterterror role has been more visible than ever.

    Officers are protecting television stations to prevent a terrorist takeover. Armed with high-tech detection equipment, they're sweeping the city for radiological, chemical and biological weapons.

    Checkpoints are up at bridges, tunnels and highway exits. Bomb dogs are riding subway cars. Ferry boats have armed escorts to ward off suicide bomb attacks.


    All that, and three drunks end up in a position to blow the bridge anyway!!!

    They need to stop acting like these measures do anything other than make the fearful less fearful...so that they will go out and buy stuff.

    What was the very first ad Rudy and Pataki did for the city?

    "Go out and Buy Stuff."
     
  6. eric d

    eric d Member

    Sep 9, 1998

    Yes we all know 3 men can carry enough explosives to blow up a bridge? :rolleyes:
     
  7. CrewDust

    CrewDust Member

    May 6, 1999
    Columbus, Ohio
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Go Red Sox, yyyyeaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
     
  8. joseph pakovits

    joseph pakovits New Member

    Apr 29, 1999
    fly-over country
    Wait, I thought we had to rush off to war right now because Saddam was shipping all his baby nukes and other WMDs to the terrorists so they could do stuff like, well, blow up a bridge perhaps.

    Or was that all a bunch of hooey?
     
  9. eric d

    eric d Member

    Sep 9, 1998

    Don't use my posts for your propoganda ;)
     

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