Suspicious Package on Kingston and Montgomery
Thursday night at around 10:20pm someone spotted a red Mr. Greens bag laying against the wall with a note stuck to it which stated plainly ‘take me’, police were immediately called. The responding officers taped off the area with yellow crime scene tape and ordered the bomb squad to respond.
A short while after the Command Officer and Executive officer’s of the precinct responded as well and after prodding the bag they found it containing a towel.
Residents and visitors are urged to take extra care during this month of Tishrei not to leave bags or luggage around do to the possible security risks it can pose.
CHer
How can someone do something so idiotic?…causing so much trouble…I am guessing your reading this now so..next time…for the safety of a lot of other people…take your own towels to the mikva…(a big guess)
amused
Guys, next time post your reminders on the fridge, not in the bag. I feel bad for the guy in the Mikvah without his towel. Just a reminder of the times we live in….
AGBAG
So it was just somebody’s Mikvah towel! Ha!
I got scared…
Farvos Nisht
Stam shigo’on. How embarassing and what a waist of communal resources. I think they should do DNA on the water from the towel and trace it to the mikvah from which it came. Then put someone undercover – he’d have to be prepared to immerse every morning for several hours – until they catch the perp who leaves towels on the streets of CH.
very intelligent
Just what we needed.
>"The responding officers taped off the
>area with yellow crime scene tape and
>ordered the bomb squad to respond."
After the responding officers for once actually did their job properly, without ‘pushing anything under the rug’, the CO and XO both together start prodding the suspicious package. Instead of waiting for the bomb squad which has been called to show up, *they* start to take matters into their own hands. Now think for a minute what would be if there was actually a bomb of some sort in the bag, who would be the most likely to be affected in such a case? You guessed it, BOTH the Commanding AND the Executive officers of our amazing precinct.
Now, I wasn’t there, so I cannot judge. However in my humble opinion, there are systems in place set to deal with specific types of emergencies. {For example a Bomb Squad to safely investigate suspicious items, a method of taking filling reports so as to both keep track of crime and criminals, as well as to aid in their future indictment, a method of actually INVESTIGATING crime which is intended to eventually lead to the ARREST AND INDICTMENT of criminals, a method of response that’s meant to biased, and so on…the systems exist and work very well in other precincts where they are used!} Had this happened in another precinct, would their highest officers be so naive as to prod a suspicious item, especially both of them together at the same time??
Or is this just another example of the ‘higher brass’ at the precinct influencing, and arranging that things not be done according to protocol in safe and smart way?
Or maybe it’s just a hallmark of their cumulative intelligence levels?
But again, I wasn’t there so I may never know.
RBA
‘very intelligent’ definately has a point
When a box was left in Dov Hikinds office in Boro Park, blocks in Boro Park were shut down for hours as the bomb squad investigated.
Manhattan too – they shut down the bridges leading into the City for hours on end to investigate bags dumped there
Yet in CH, in the midst of a densley popluated Jewish area at a sensitive time of the Jewish Year, they assign 3 cops and a stick (or whatever they used to prod the bag)
Interesting……
very amused
stick? from the picture it looks like a finger!
But it is kinda cute– some guys wife prepared the towel for him and left it by the door– and (hopefully AFTER mikvah) he probably started farbrenging with the israelis who have nowhere else to be than the street… and oops, left the towel…
If him or his wife read chinfo, they’re probably really embarrased and not telling anyone it was them but rolling and laughing at the same time!
Eliezer
I guess the 71st Precient/EMTs/Doctors just upgraded to another level: Bobm Squad! way to go. we are actually progressing towards Medical Examiners.
rivi
oh my!!!!
those ppl that called the police were probably soooooo
scared!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what were turning into israel???????????
wow!!!!
but its quite humorous!!!!!!
Prayer
It’s been a year since the bomb scare at Schenectady between President and Crown. That scare led Mussof services at Khal Chassidim and Rayim HaHuvim to relocate.
It was nice to see a police man standing guard both days of Rosh HaShona at the corner of Schenectady and President.
groiseh
Could you imagine this on 1010 Wins?
BrookAve
I thought the bag had a bad pomegranate in it.
Jaded
Well I heard from an inside and reliable source that they sent this mikvah towel to the lab.
They had planned to do a couple of tests to determine if the toothpaste found on the towel was actually a liquid bomb component and part of an intricate plan (rochmana litzlan.) Officer Roggerio (R, 2nd) took the towel home for the night because he thought it was so humorous, but unfortunately for himself it was not very humorous after his wife mistakenly washed it. They are in the process of investigating who took the towel and why and are holding Officer Roggerio as an involved party in the case of the "Take Me" towel.
So a lesson can be learned by all of Anash and their wives. Do not put your towel in a bag. Ever.
copmlement our cops
dont worry, they will be following their protocal to the letter. this one will surely get a real police report, which will probably be passed on to higher authorities, bomb squad organizations, fbi ect., and will definitely be used to furthur enhance our goverments current knollage and statistics of terrorism. this will probably be documented as up-to-the-miniute top-sectret intelligence. mikvah towal. at least this earns a police report. Kol Hakavod to our dear 71st pricinct!