Just Keep Telling Yourself It’s Only An Art-School Project, It’s Only An Art-School Project
Please tell me this was just some dippy art-school project (like this was!):
Posted: January 9th, 2006 | Filed under: Fear MongeringA suitcase found Thursday morning in Brooklyn — chock-full of photos of Big Apple landmarks and subway stations — provoked a massive mobilization of antiterror units when it was finally opened two days later, police said.
“The pictures had everything — from Police Plaza to 26 Federal Plaza. It was scary,” said Derwin McDuffie, 40, a security guard at Linden Plaza, where the bag was found.
“The weird thing is if a tourist took those pictures, there would be people in them. There was nobody in these.”
He said the black bag contained clothes and disposable cameras — along with color snapshots of City Hall, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge and A- and G-line subway stations.
The Joint Terrorist Task Force, the NYPD Bomb Squad and hazmat and other antiterrorism units responded to the call.
Security guards had found the suitcase Thursday morning on a staircase in a parking garage and stuck it in Lost and Found.
Three clear bottles were found to contain just soap, but the bag was seized for investigation, sources said.
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’t see the man.