Bomb?!?!??! Los Angeles St. between 9th & Olympic!

[JuniperLea]

Breaking on ABC TV News... no link yet! This is near my office... yikes...


:scared:

Edit for link:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7707259

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. If you are told to evac, do so

most likely they will go on lockdown.

Take care.

[JuniperLea]

3. Thanks, nadin...

I hope it's nothing, sometimes that's the case. Helicopters up the kazoo right now.

[Newsjock]

2. Oh, suspicious object

Someone probably left their skanky gym bag on the sidewalk again.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Problem is that sooner or later the skanky gym

bag will be an actual explosive.

[JuniperLea]

5. I hope so...

I really, truly hope so.

[HereSince1628]

6. It's always interesting to find out what the suspicious object is

Shouldn't there be a LAW that precludes suspicious objects from sale in the US?

Or do we just need to KEEP FEAR ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coming to a national capitol, soon.

[JuniperLea]

7. Better safe than sorry...

The last NY bomber was sentenced yesterday. This Angelena takes heed when things happen in NYC.

[MineralMan]

8. Be safe! These things usually turn out to be nothing.

I hope that is the case.

[TommyO]

10. In most cases, yes, it does turn out to be nothing

I was at a minor league baseball game when the entire stadium was evacuated through side entrances - very quickly, very calmly, and with no explanation.

It turned out to be a bomb scare brought about by a suspicious object - a kid's lunch left at the main entrance to the ballpark.

[Cleita]

9. Not the first bomb threat on Olympic.

In, I believe 1984, some whacko tried to bomb the IRS office in W. LA on Olympic Boulevard with a car bomb. I was working as a free lance bookkeeper then and was on my way to pick up some tax forms when I was stopped by a police barricade and told I could go nowhere near that building and probably couldn't until the next day. Later in the news it was said it was a bomb scare. A nutso had loaded a broken down truck with explosives that were timed to go off at a certain time. Fortunately, since the truck was parked in a no parking zone (pretty stupid), the police investigated and were able to dismantle the bomb before it went off.

I suspect the police bomb squad is on it and since there is such a thing as a bomb squad I assume it's not that uncommon a circumstance. We just don't hear about it that often.