MBTA Transit Police ordered a shutdown of the South Station bus terminal when a janitor found a strange item in the trash in the men's room. Alert New England reports it was a stolen coin box from a pay phone.
Earlier:
Riverside station shut due to suspicious coffee maker.
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Sounds like Sob Story guy got his $13
By Nancy
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 11:25am
but still didn't make it to his grandmother's house in Worcester (or is it Springfield?).
Is it this?
By Saul
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 11:37am
[img]http://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bigba...
Taken seriously?
By johnmcboston
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 12:19pm
So we have a suspicious package, which could be explosive, yet commuter trains under the building with the package in it run as usual??
It was probably just a
By Saul
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 12:21pm
It was probably just a toothbrush.
I wonder if the brains at the
By Saul
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 12:29pm
I wonder if the brains at the Transit Police realize that (unscreened) cars can also park atop the terminal.
To be fair, the tweet said that the "Red Line&Commuter Rail not [b]e[/b]ffected". Broken down trains and signals have done a marvelous job the past few days of causing the Red Line and commuter rail to not be [i]effected[/i].
Updated
By adamg
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 12:43pm
Coin box from a pay phone.
Now, Now... Lets not break
By Matt_J
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 1:55pm
Now, Now... Lets not break the illusion of security and reasonable reactions.
Thank goodness the TSA was at
By Saul
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 12:22pm
Thank goodness the TSA was in Quincy this morning to ensure that this suspicious package did not enter the T through that stop and to ensure that the signals worked splendidly.
Stolen coin box
By anon
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 2:19pm
I'm surprised there's even any money in those things any more. Hardly seems worth the effort to steal one.
You all should be ashamed!!
By 02132
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 5:07pm
All this talk about bombs and trains and janitors, and nobody is thinking about the children.
Please, God, won't someone think of the children?
Yes, we have to ban children
By jmeltzer
Sat, 01/05/2013 - 7:30am
Yes, we have to ban children from the South Station bus terminal, because they might explode!
dropping the dime
By scollaysq
Sat, 01/05/2013 - 11:22am
I know it's early yet but this is my nominee for Headline of the Year.