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Comm. Ave. block shut, B Line service halted as police investigate suspicious package
By adamg on Sat, 09/12/2015 - 5:36pm
UPDATE: WCVB reports somebody dropped off a bag at Goodwill, said it had a bomb in it. By 6 p.m., police had determined it did not.
Crash Safety shows us the 900 block of Commonwealth Avenue around 5 p.m. after it was evacuated due to a suspicious package.
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People leave packages at thrift shops
Its a THRIFT SHOP for God's sake. Everybody leaves suspicious packages there. That's the best stuff.
You missed that part where
You missed that part where the jerk dropping off the bag said, "THERE'S A BOMB IN IT"
Thrift Shops
As an inveterate thrift shop patron, I've seen my share of thrift shops full of wacky people. Ironically enough, that one on Comm. Ave. always seemed to have the most "normal" clientele of them all. Go figure.
He meant
He was donating a bunch of Rob Schneider movies.
Does anyone have the
Does anyone have the following statistics handy?
(a) Number of times investigation of a suspicious package has actually revealed it to be a bomb;
(b) Number of times investigation of a suspicious package has revealed it to be absolutely nothing;
(c) Number of times where a bomb has gone off in public where someone actually spotted it before it detonated, and called it in as a suspicious package; and
(d) Number of times where a bomb has gone off in public where no one spotted it ahead of time.
I'm positing that (a) and (c) are zero, (b) and (d) are nonzero, and (b) is extremely large. (b) compared to (a) and (d) compared to (c) is therefore 100%. The success rate of this kind of preventive law enforcement, that is, is zero. They have as much luck preventing bombings this way as they would by responding to reports of graffiti or cats stuck in trees by sending out the bomb squad.
In other words, this is one of the biggest waste of police resources imaginable. It's entirely security theater.
This isn't really preventive law enforcement......
Preventive law enforcement would be the times people are arrested buying bomb making material (which does happen). Trying to disarm the bombs after suspicious package calls would be reactive law enforcement, since the police are called.
Also really isn't that expensive, those guys are on the clock anyway.
"Security theater"
And when someone drops a package and says "THERE IS A BOMB IN THIS BAG" -- as was the case here -- do you still think it's "theater" to investigate? I think you're guilty of being more than a bit theatrical yourself, tbh.
A photo has been released
www.wcvb.com/news/suspected-bomb-threat-at-the-goodwill-store/35242012
Now if this well dressed young man doesn't scream "BU student" I don't know what does. Pink and white striped shirt. Neat white shorts. Bracelet. Docksiders even. Hardly the disheveled garden variety nutjob one sees a few blocks up at Harvard and Comm Aves. I'm wondering if he might be a snowflake transplant from suburbia who simply mouthed off about a bomb while depositing a package, perhaps not knowing how hysterical people get about that kind of thing around here. A person with a real bomb probably wouldn't announce it. And what's the point of bombing a thrift shop anyway? Just a theory.