{"id":662,"date":"2006-02-06T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/long-tailed_terrorists_benefit_from_bottomless_garbage_cans.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:30:10","slug":"longtailed_terr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/longtailed_terr.html","title":{"rendered":"Long-Tailed Terrorists Benefit From Bottomless Garbage Cans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/388290p-329500c.html\">experimenting with see-through trashcans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Transit Authority has a brand new bag &#8212; and garbage can &#8212; in its anti-terror arsenal.<br \/>\nOfficials have deployed a translucent trash can, fitted with a clear bag, at a downtown Brooklyn subway station, making it possible for police or passing straphangers to spot potentially dangerous packages that might be left behind.<\/p>\n<p>The square bins &#8212; covered on four sides by glass or a glass-like surface &#8212; are expected to pop up at other stations when the TA moves into a full-fledged pilot program, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The clear can is shorter and holds less refuse than the regular ones in use. If not emptied more often, spillovers will occur, allowing the subway&#8217;s four-legged, long-tailed terrorists to grow fatter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA is experimenting with see-through trashcans: The Transit Authority has a brand new bag &#8212; and garbage can &#8212; in its anti-terror arsenal. Officials have deployed a translucent trash can, fitted with a clear bag, at a downtown Brooklyn subway station, making it possible for police or passing straphangers to spot potentially dangerous packages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}