All clear after suspicious package scare in Georgetown

[Ian David]

Suspicious Package in Georgetown

July 1, 2007 - 6:28am
WASHINGTON - Everything is clear in Georgetown after a suspicious package shut down a significant area around the Wisconsin and M Street intersection late Saturday night.

Restaurants were evacuated and police blocked off the streets with yellow tape. M Street was closed to all traffic from the Key Bridge to Wisconsin.

Firefighters were passing by the Georgetown mall at around 9:00 p.m. on M Street when they saw an abandoned backpack on the sidewalk. The firefighters didn't want to take any chances so they called it in. A bomb squad took the backpack and detonated it, but no word on what may have been inside.

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[Laughing Mirror]

1. How utterly terrifying

This absurd and insane mass hysteria, that is, over somebody's forgotten backpack. Do people really fall for this nonsense? Good heavens what a joke.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Well, people don't normally leave backpacks on the sidewalk. nt

[Laughing Mirror]

3. Oh God I'm so scared of an abandoned backpack

What a bunch of scaredy-cat nuts this country has turned into.