{"id":314,"date":"2005-07-27T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_problem_with_fanny_packs.html"},"modified":"2005-07-27T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T17:54:33","slug":"the_problem_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_problem_wit.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Fanny Packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times does a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/27\/nyregion\/27bus.html?ex=1280116800&#038;en=2b38a0de8554d7df&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">post-mortem on Sunday&#8217;s tour bus terror scare<\/a>, noting in particular that the problem with keeping an eye out for dark-skinned men with backpacks is that there are an awful lot of dark-skinned men with backpacks in New York:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>According to the police, the Gray Line supervisor told the captain that the five men had aroused the concerns of a Gray Line ticket agent at the Waldorf-Astoria, where the men had boarded bus 320. The ticket agent, the police said, had told the supervisor that the men had purchased their tickets in advance; that they carried backpacks; and that they wore something else &#8211; perhaps fanny packs &#8211; that caused bulges to appear around their waists.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/guidezone.e-guiding.com\/liz_lang_confusion.htm\">Perhaps the British tourists were confused when police told them their &#8220;fanny packs&#8221; were suspicious?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times does a post-mortem on Sunday&#8217;s tour bus terror scare, noting in particular that the problem with keeping an eye out for dark-skinned men with backpacks is that there are an awful lot of dark-skinned men with backpacks in New York: According to the police, the Gray Line supervisor told the captain that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}