Round Two of Suspicious Packages
No details but according to a Tweet posted 19 minutes ago by @RichmondPolice: #rva Semmes Ave closed from 31st St. to Forest Hill Ave. for suspicious package investigation by RPD Bomb Squad.
Update 7:53 – Tweet from @paulspicer looks like the bomb folks have left and our favorite unopened restaurant is safe. (The restaurant he is speaking is Parkside Cafe. -ed.)
Tweet from @Richmond Police Semmes Avenue opened to traffic. Suspicious package was a suitcase. Contents pose no danger to public.
Updates 10:09 11/9: Picture from NBC12
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I suspect this was related somehow:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBalloonProject
I hate that we call the freaking BOMB SQUAD over a science project. The terrorists have won, y’all.
I saw the “package” on Sunday as the police were arriving. It was hardly a suitcase – at the most it was 4 inches square.
Maureen, the incident above occurred on Monday night and the suitcase can be seen in the picture above, below the robot’s arm. The package on Sunday has been confirmed by several sources (as you state) to be much smaller and was in fact hanging from a tree.
So a suitcase left at the bus stop is suspicious and we’re using our tax money to bring in robots to check them out and blow them up? Really? If you’ve never used public transportation before, then I’d like to enlighten you to the fact the type of folks who take the bus are not the city’s best and brightest. Sometimes they show up too early or two late with their stuff, and when they realize they have 20 or 30 minutes to kill, they “dissapear” for a few minutes to sip their booze or smoke their drugs.
At this pace, the garbage people leave in front of their home a day before pick up is going to be considered suspicious. I’m all for being aware and noticing change, but a suitcase at a bus stop (in an area where drugs can easier be scored by walking 3 blocks across the street). Not really that suspicious. Use your heads people.