{"id":596,"date":"2006-01-09T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/just_keep_telling_yourself_its_only_an_art-school_project_its_only_an_art-school_project.html"},"modified":"2006-01-09T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T18:03:15","slug":"just_keep_telli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/just_keep_telli.html","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Telling Yourself It&#8217;s Only An Art-School Project, It&#8217;s Only An Art-School Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/60041.htm\">this was just some dippy art-school project<\/a> (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/26\/when_performance_artists_attack.php\">this<\/a> was!):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A suitcase found Thursday morning in Brooklyn &#8212; chock-full of photos of Big Apple landmarks and subway stations &#8212; provoked a massive mobilization of antiterror units when it was finally opened two days later, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pictures had everything &#8212; from Police Plaza to 26 Federal Plaza. It was scary,&#8221; said Derwin McDuffie, 40, a security guard at Linden Plaza, where the bag was found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The weird thing is if a tourist took those pictures, there would be people in them. There was nobody in these.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the black bag contained clothes and disposable cameras &#8212; along with color snapshots of City Hall, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge and A- and G-line subway stations.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Terrorist Task Force, the NYPD Bomb Squad and hazmat and other antiterrorism units responded to the call.<\/p>\n<p>Security guards had found the suitcase Thursday morning on a staircase in a parking garage and stuck it in Lost and Found.<\/p>\n<p>Three clear bottles were found to contain just soap, but the bag was seized for investigation, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a man who went to pick it up Friday vanished when told it had been taken to Lost and Found, said McDuffie, who didn&#8217;t see the man.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell me this was just some dippy art-school project (like this was!): A suitcase found Thursday morning in Brooklyn &#8212; chock-full of photos of Big Apple landmarks and subway stations &#8212; provoked a massive mobilization of antiterror units when it was finally opened two days later, police said. &#8220;The pictures had everything &#8212; from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}