Sunnyvale streets close while police examine suspicious package

[Ian David]

Sunnyvale streets close while police examine suspicious package
By Mark Gomez
Mercury News
Article Launched: 07/31/2007 11:48:32 AM PDT

The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety closed down parts of North Fair Oaks Avenue this morning while responding to a suspicious-looking package found near a bus stop, a city spokesman said.

Just before 9 a.m., safety officials received a report that an unattended suitcase was sitting at North Fair Oaks Avenue, near a Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority bus stop. The county's bomb technicians are on scene, and are pretty confident "nothing is there," Levermore-Rich said.

Still, the suitcase will be "handled with extreme care" and is expected to be destroyed by the bomb squad sometime before noon, according to Levermore-Rich.

Safety officials blocked off North Fair Oaks Avenue between Ahwanee Avenue and East Duane Avenue. The streets should be re-opened sometime around noon.

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[Demeter]

1. Non-Organic Sprouts, Perhaps?

Terra, terra, terra!

[Bitwit1234]

2. Golly do you think the bushs robo-bots have placed enough suspicious

packages yet, to take the heat off gonzales and the bushies.

[Ian David]

3. Nobody needs to place suspicious packages. Heightening the public paranoia is enough. n/t