{"id":1550,"date":"2006-09-12T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/but_what_if_youre_the_dipshit_who_left_an_unattended_bag_in_penn_station_on_the_fifth_anniversary_of_september_11.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:51:16","slug":"but_what_if_you_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/but_what_if_you_1.html","title":{"rendered":"But What If You&#8217;re The Dipshit Who Left An Unattended Bag In Penn Station On The Fifth Anniversary Of September 11?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters, please <em>please<\/em> pay attention to where you leave stuff, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/451515p-380033c.html\">especially on the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Penn Station was evacuated yesterday morning when a suspicious package was discovered shortly before the first citywide moment of silence for 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>The cause for concern turned out to be a harmless duffel bag, but the rush-hour scare was one of several that highlighted the increased security &#8212; and jitters &#8212; on the fifth anniversary of the terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the same sky as Sept. 11, the same feel to the air,&#8221; said Steven Billings, 41, who was barred from entering Penn Station by police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kind of stuff &#8212; phony bomb scares, whatever &#8212; happens all the time. Today, though, I&#8217;m glad to hear it was nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year on Sept. 11, there were 31 reports of suspicious packages between midnight and 11:59 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>From midnight to 4:30 p.m. yesterday, there were 71 reports of suspicious packages &#8212; three resulting in the NYPD bomb squad being dispatched. None involved actual devices.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters, please please pay attention to where you leave stuff, especially on the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11: Penn Station was evacuated yesterday morning when a suspicious package was discovered shortly before the first citywide moment of silence for 9\/11. The cause for concern turned out to be a harmless duffel bag, but the rush-hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}