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Post by Retrovision on Aug 14, 2006 7:03:35 GMT -8
Aug, 14 2006 - 12:50 AM
DELTA/CKNW(AM980) - The RCMP Bomb Squad has determined that suspicious package found on board the BC Ferry Queen of Vancouver was, in fact, harmless.
The package was a briefcase that contained the owner's identification. Police are attempting to contact the owner.
The vessels' 8 pm sailing was cancelled and hundreds of passengers were evacuated from the ferry leaving their cars on board.
Those passengers were allowed to re-board the ferry just before 11 Sunday night and continue their journey to Swartz Bay.
Copyright © 2006 AM980 CKNW
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Koastal Karl
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Post by Koastal Karl on Aug 14, 2006 9:11:21 GMT -8
ah ha, so that's why there was no 8pm last night. Nice of BC Ferries to let people know what is going on!! No service notice or anything about it.
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Post by Islander12 on Aug 14, 2006 10:02:42 GMT -8
Yeah that's exactly what bc ferries should do, tell people htere might be a bomb aboard a ferry. The Cargo must remain calm.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Aug 14, 2006 10:08:12 GMT -8
So what should they tell them as to why the 8pm has been cancelled then??? Mechanical problems?? People would want to know why sailings have been cancelled!
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Aug 14, 2006 10:24:52 GMT -8
Talk about irony, that is what I hate is when they dont tell you the story in the first place, WSF even has the guts to tell the entire story.
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Post by kylefossett on Aug 14, 2006 14:10:02 GMT -8
it is not procedure of the rcmp to announce that there is a bomb scare. the last thing you want people to do while evacuating them is for them to panic. if you evacuate them calmly then things will go alot better
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Post by Balfour on Aug 14, 2006 20:07:57 GMT -8
I heard this story on News 1130, but they said Queen of Victoria (idiots!!!).
It's interesting how scares like this happen happen after a big one.
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Aug 14, 2006 20:14:58 GMT -8
Speaking of scares, when I was heading from Seattle-Bainbridge Island today, someone decided to go to the restroom I believe and left all there stuff on a chair. Someone in a serious voice came over the PA saying whoever's bag it was to claim it immediatly. I am not sure who is the idiot but if you have a suitcase, would you lug it into a washroom just so then people do not freak? Really, if eyes are watching, maybe the security system should have the ability to go back a few minutes to see who it is. Then you maybe able to figure something out.
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Post by BrianWilliams on Aug 14, 2006 21:24:12 GMT -8
*sigh* In another recent thread, I quoted a Brit reporter who said the terrorists have won; when they cripple our transportation by fear, frighten ordinary folks, and reduce our trust.
I was in UK a couple of times in the early 1970's. October 1972, I crossed to Dublin and back via BR's ferry Hibernian Prince. With my shaggy hair and scruffy beard, I could have been an 24-yr old IRA soldier.
-A reminder: early 1972 was the beginning of a round of "troubles" that led to murderous bombings and assassinations, occupation of Belfast by the British Army and terror bombings in British cities -
Anyway, on my 1972 Anglo-Irish trip, I saw a very large force of British police as we filed onto the ferry at Holyhead at midnight. I showed my Canadian passport, and was waved through.
At Dun Laoghaire (Dublin's ferry port) there was an even sterner bunch of Gardai -Irish police- watching every debarking passenger. For me, no hassle, but I felt the watchfulness.
Two years later, back in London to be married on 22 Dec, there had been a series of pre-Christmas IRA bombings. This time, the Underground and BR commuter trains were strict: an unattended package will be seized and destroyed.
Stupid me. I'd bought two bottles of very expensive German wine for my prospective in-laws. I left 'em in their wine shop carrier bag for a minute at Victoria Station, on a bench a few feet away while I bought a BR ticket to suburban Purley.
I looked around, and there they were - gone. A helpful London policeman had seen the snatch. "Not stolen, sir, but impounded."
I suppose 40 buck's worth of fine wine was shot to bits in a field far away.
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Post by Neil on Aug 14, 2006 22:52:25 GMT -8
Indeed, Brian, the Brits and Europeans have been dealing with heightened security measures, and the idiosyncracies inherent in that, for a long time. Now we have to get used to it, and we will with time.
I don't think it means the "terrorists have won" when we lose our former complacency. To recognize a danger, and guard against it, doesn't necessarily entail living in fear.
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Post by Curtis on Aug 15, 2006 19:08:42 GMT -8
Sounds something like this Story.
Someone left their Laptop on board the Queen of Surrey and it was there for one sailing before someone realized it was there so when they completly unloaded Deck 4 at Horseshoe Bay they wouldn't let anyone on and the Police were there as well since we heard a Siren. So they finaly confirmed it wasn't a bomb and they loaded us again only just when we think we're on the Deck 4 Nope Deck 3. Great! More Stairs.
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Post by poeticlives on Aug 16, 2006 12:35:02 GMT -8
A little paranoid, it strikes me...
A bomb explosion would be very out of the norm of course for BC Ferries accidents!
Better start banning the liquids!
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