Is there some kind of bomb scare in Penn Station?

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Nice day for it...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Penn Station briefly evacuated

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK -- Pennsylvania Station was briefly evacuated Monday morning because of a suspicious package, suspending all train service in and out of the terminal.

Police said the suspicious package, a bag, was discovered in a retail area occupied by Amtrak.

Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black said all trains - Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit - were affected. The evacuation began at 8:25 a.m. and was declared "all clear" at 8:39 a.m., he said.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

People should start calling in "suspicious package" alerts every time somebody leaves an old sofa on the streetcorner

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

they left a sofa inside penn station???

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I remember once when I found a black bag with somebody's uneaten fruitarian lunch in it on the L and actually asked the other people on the train if they knew who it belonged to and then looked for a cop and then finally threw it out. This was right after 7/7, I was itching for a procedure to follow

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Also I always feel bad for people who forget their shit on trains and such. Has anybody ever gotten anything back from the MTA Lost & Found?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Playing with fire. It could have been a binary explosive - peaches and apples are a dangerous combination.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

the binary bombs are nothing.. it's those high-octet explosives that you have to be worried about.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I know better now. Since I only spend about an hour and a half of each week on mass transit, instead of 12 hours like back then, my risk profile for dying in an sunni extremist-sponsored derailment is much lower.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

(zpost)

Of my eight years of daily LIRR riding, I never recovered a single damned thing I lost. Apart from a monthly ticket or two (URGH), and a wallet (stolen within a minute of leaving the seat), it's only been books and umbrellas and whatnot. Last time I tried looking for a book, the bitchy lady at Penn said I'd have to wait several days for lost stuff to make its way to the Jamaica station L&F, and if I wanted my stuff I'd have to be there at such-and-such an hour, blah blah blah, fuck that with a ten-foot-pole.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I left a half deerskull mounted to the back of some wooden doorchimes on the Metro North one time. I went to Lost & Found (I think it was underneath Grand Central) but they said they hadn't run across anything like that.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

what happens to all the unclaimed stuff at L&F?

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Freebies!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I got a bag back from MetroNorth!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

let's just ponder the absurdity of this for a few minutes!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

He took the rest of the deer with him, Stence!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

amazing. i love tracer hand.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

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