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Congress Street shut for suspicious package
By adamg on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 1:54pm
UPDATE: All clear given around 2:05 p.m.
Congress Street is shut at D Street as State Police and Boston firefighters investigate a suspicious package at 1 Seaport Lane.
It's the second time Congress has been shut today - earlier, a manhole fire briefly shut the road at Farnsworth Street.
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Welcome to the 21st century
Where anytime there's an unattended backpack, the FBI, SWAT, Bomb Squad, and local and state police are called, every news team is on site, and local schools are placed in lockdown. My God the media is just ridiculous.
No, not every media, just me
And I'm not sure I even qualify as a small, let alone a medium, but I like answering the question "Why is my street shut down?"
I'm doubting MSM covered this incident, let alone the earlier flaming manhole further up Congress.
It's not the media that's the
It's not the media that's the problem. It's overtime policies for public safety jobs that cause these incidents to figuratively explode in size.
Just UHub
I couldn't find this news story anywhere else. However, when I got an alert from my office manager regarding the shut down on the street outside my office and stating that the police were asking us to stay away from the windows, I came here to see if I could get any more information.
We are all understandably a little jumpy this week. Perhaps you can cut us all some slack?
this week
We are? I'm not. My friends aren't. My co-workers aren't.
That almost looks like a tilt
That almost looks like a tilt-shift photography image.
Theres a Hotel there
The Seaport Hotel is located there, its most likely a bag someone checking in/out left behind. This day and age its better to be safe than sorry,
Fixed that for you
This day and age its better to be
safe than sorryparanoidEmergencies, imho,
especially if it's a manhole fire, are a totally understandable reason for temporarily shutting down a given street or intersection. Also, at least there are signs indicating a detour, and it doesn't go on for hours and hours, the way shutdowns resulting from protests do.
Were you late for work?
Or is all your dudgeon just theoretical?