Chicago Jersey Boysus Interruptus

[derekleffew]

From http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2...acuation.html:

Chicago police safely disposed of two suspicious boxes behind the Bank of America Theatre late Tuesday and were turning their attention toward finding the person or persons who left them. Though the boxes left in the alley behind the theater at 18 W. Monroe St. were determined to be non-dangerous, police weren't calling the incident a mere hoax.
"I would say it's a little bit more than a hoax," police Bomb and Arson Cmdr. Eugene Roy said just before midnight Tuesday night near the theater. "It appears that this was deliberately set up to provoke this type of response."
Police were alerted at about 9 p.m. when two boxes -- each with a note -- were found behind the theater.
One letter read: "This is not a bomb" while the second note read: "This is not going to end good," Chicago Police Lt. Charles Flynn said.
Staff at both the theater and the adjacent Hampton Inn hotel evacuated their businesses, while police shut down several nearby streets to traffic. The evacuation interrupted a performance of the Tony-winning musical "Jersey Boys."
Investigators from the Bomb and Arson Unit ignited the boxes at about 11:30 p.m. and did not find anything dangerous inside them, Chicago Fire Department officials said. Chicago police confiscated the remains and were to run an analysis that could point them toward the culprit, Roy said.
"It's not funny, it's not a joke. It put public safety at risk, it cost the city an extraordinary sum of money," Roy said.
In addition to being prosecuted, the person responsible would also be hit with a bill for the city response to the incident, Roy added.

[Van]

Hmmm, I wonder what was in those boxes. Around here we just have street people Pooping by our stage doors. I guarantee That never ends well.

[BDS0111]

Thanks for such a wonderful visual Van... Thanks... LOL

[derekleffew]

Man charged in Loop theater bomb scare - Chicago Breaking News

[gafftaper]

This one happened so long ago I can't find it on the internet. Must be 10-15 years back. They found a suspicious package at the ferry dock here in downtown Seattle. They shut down the ferry service and tied up traffic for hours. Eventually they got their robot in to pick up the package and blew it up with a water canon... and Pornography rained all over the Seattle waterfront.

[Eboy87]

One of the instructors here mixes the monitor sends for the Chicago Jersey Boys. I'll have to ask him about this next time I see him.