PORTLAND, Maine — Portland police say a suspicious package that was placed into a U.S. Postal Service mailbox and led to the evacuation of several downtown blocks turned out to be a purse with a beeping cellphone inside.
Portland police evacuated the area after a person told police about 1 p.m. Saturday about a beeping or ticking package being placed into a mailbox on Federal Street, behind the city’s main fire station.
Police brought in a remote-controlled robot and a bomb technician to investigate and blocked off several downtown streets.
The Portland Press Herald reported that police opened the mailbox shortly after 4 p.m., removed the purse and declared the incident over.
A package… in a mailbox.
Inconceivable.
OK, that’s a little more understandable than it was at first report (the original edition referred only to the classically vague Suspicious Package). It’s still a bit over the top to call out the Hazbot, I should think, but at least it was in fact something that technically has no business being in a mailbox. Unlike, you know… a package.
I’ve received packages in the mail that both tick and beep, they are called watches!
Time to remove mail boxes to make the world safe.
Come on! Say it ain’t so. A beeping cell phone, someone needs to stop watching CSI.
Paranoia at it’s best. Thanks to George Bush and company.
Is Bush still president? I guess I missed that! Next thing you know Bush will be spying on us with drones!
We are no longer the country we were 12 years ago.
We are no longer the country we were 3 1/2 years ago!
We are no longer the country that we were.
Guess who won the “war on terror”?
Easy one, the terrorists! We were doing pretty well until obama surrendered. Now they are free to regroup and try again.
Uhhm, when did Obama “surrender”?
9/11 could have been prevented if the FBI had a “when an agent reports suspicious Saudi and UAE citizens learning to fly commercial airliners but not land them you look into it” policy.
Well, at least the People’s Republic of Portland got to play with it’s nifty toys!
Bin Laden may be dead, but he’s still got America shaking in our boots.