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NEW YORK -- NYPD has evacuated the area around the National Car Rental
parking lot at 9510 Ditmars Blvd in Queens, across from LaGuardia
Airport.

NYPD says they've found an abandoned car with at least one automatic
weapons and a box with wires and a timing device.

~Duck

Keep us updated, Duck!!!

Unbelievable!!

My god... that's close to me....

Dang it's the 4th of July and all the crazies will come out of the woodworks, let's just pray tomorrow will be a great Independence Day

Yeah....that's all we can do.......

OH LOVELY!!!

Unfortunately folks, we still need to anticipate these things and remain vigilant!

What is our terror alert level at - is it yellow?

Yes, I believe it is still Yellow... Although they were considering raising it to Orange again, I'm not sure if they did.

Some people are idiots.


NEW YORK — A car rental agency near New York's La Guardia Airport was evacuated Thursday after employees discovered a loaded gun in a trunk and a suspicious device that turned out to be harmless, police said.

The device was a clock taped to two road flares with black tape, according to police spokesman Michael O'Looney. He said a bomb squad determined the clock could not have ignited the flares, and he described it as a hoax.

Police were looking for the person who rented the car on May 23.

The car had not been returned by the renter and instead was retrieved by the agency because it was overdue by several days, according to David Gilman, a spokesman for National Car Rental. He said records regarding the car and the person who last rented it had been turned over to police.

Rental agency workers summoned police to the scene at about 10:45 a.m. after discovering the gun -- a Tech-9 semi-automatic weapon -- and the device. The car was parked on the second deck of a garage, and police blocked off the area.

The incident followed reports of suspicious packages Wednesday that led police to shut down three major subway lines in New York. The Brooklyn Bridge was also shut down temporarily after a caller told police he had been offered money to drive a car onto the span. None of the reports Wednesday proved a danger to the public.
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Some people have nothing better to do, I guess. Like I said...idiots.

~Duck

Yep, idiots!! I hope that person spends some time behind bars for doing this.

Some people will always take the opportunity to scare people....just for fun. Those people need to get a life!! Unfortunately, it is likely that one of these times it won't be a hoax.

All we can do is go on with our lives as usual but be aware at all times and report anything suspicious....oh and PRAY a lot!

A TEC-9 looks a lot more vicious than it actually is; it looks like a small PPSH-40-type submachine gun design, but it only fires one 9mm shot per trigger squeeze, and has a very short barrel for it's overall size (even though it has a "ventilation sleeve"), with a 10-shot external "clip" magazine.

One of these was used by those two thugs at Columbine, if you recall; it is unreliable except at extremely close range (7 yards or less), and very hard to conceal or carry.

Let's hope all goes well tomorrow. I am gong to be on the National Mall, in DC. They are checking everyone who walks in and no vehicles are to be let in. It will be a long line to get in, but it's worth it in security terms.

I will try to let you all know Saturday how it goes. Let's hope we all make it through the next day safely.

Ya know.....people are just plain SICK!!! Monkey see, monkey do syndrome! Copycat wanna be's, I swear, what's the matter with ppl. these days???

Dennis

How annoying. People actually want to fool around like this... makes no sense. We shouldn't be surprised if there are problems tomorrow, hope and prayer that we all have a great Independence Day 2003!

Colin, I just calculated your distance from LaGuardia International Airport in New York City, New York and got approximately 85 miles slightly north of due east of you. You consider this very close to you?

Well, I'm glad that it was a phony! What an idiot!

Im sure they are going to be very very sorry about doing such a stupid thing when they get caught!!!! Rather idiotic prank

Wow... some people ARE idiots... I can't believe that. Unbelievable.

It's RATHER close to me, Tom...