Police describe what they knew and when they knew it (Mooninite Scare)

[Ian David]

Submitted by adamg on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 7:43pm.

Boston Police have released a chronology of yesterday's events, which occured as Washington and New York police were reporting suspicious (non-mooninite) activities and included New England Medical Center security officers reporting an apparent pipe bomb left by a guy who fled yelling "God is warning you that today is going to be a sad Day."

The NEMC incident happened around 1 p.m. A few minutes later, State Police reported multiple suspicious items at the Longfellow Bridge.

At this point we had multiple reports of possible improvised explosive devices of various types. As those devices were being investigated and rendered safe, detectives from the Boston Police Department and Massachusetts State Police were running down information on a cartoon character possibly associated with these devices, that later led to websites associated with that character and individuals placing these devices around the area.
http://www.bpdnews.com/2007/02/message_from_the_police_commis_2.html


Read the whole thing and you can begin to realize why the police didn't just go on TV and declare the whole thing a stupid ad stunt right away.


More:
http://www.universalhub.com/node/7476

[woodsprite]

1. So Brit Intelligence and DHS in DC started the ball rolling.

Turner Broadcasting played their part.

Interesting, but pretty much as I figured it when I heard about it. My first thought was "OK, who put them up to it." Guess I got my answer.