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Small chaos this morning (email x-posting this failed) January 25th on CalTrain's Palo Alto north-side platform:
"A
Santa Clara County bomb squad was studying two suspicious packages that
closed part of the Palo Alto transit center this morning, two
brick-sized packages are gift-wrapped like "birthday presents and there
is a ticking sound coming from the area," said police Palo Alto Sgt.
Sandra Brown. The packages were found on top of an electrical box
behind the MacArthur Park Restaurant.
The
report of the two boxes came in at 7:30 a.m. and by 8:10 a.m. police
closed the transit center, the bus depot and the transit center were
closed and Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority and Samtrans buses were
being rerouted along El Camino Real.
CalTrain
and Amtrak trains were rolling through the station and stopping about
200 yards down from the platform and passengers were being escorted
away, Brown said."
Conductors on the train told us to 'not use the tunnel,' and that we would be arriving on the opposite (north-bound) platform. Problem was, nobody was sure how to cross the tracks without using one of the tunnels so after a moment of pondering, most of us proceeded to use the southern-most tunnel / underpass.
Upon arriving on south-bound platform side, A very helpful uniformed officer told us, "there are no buses here," and send us down the sidewalk in front of the restaurant
toward El Camino. Frankly, the lack of buses was fairly obvious – the
numerous squad cars and orange cones blocking traffic made it fairly
clear that there would be none any time soon.
A Santa Clara County bomb squad determined two suspicious packages that closed part of the Palo Alto transit center today were gift-wrapped bricks, Palo Alto police Sgt. Sandra Brown said.
At
10:06 a.m., after the bomb squad took X-ray images of the packages,
they determined them to be harmless bricks and re-opened the Palo Alto
transit center, Brown reported.
The incident disrupted transit for more than two hours.
ABC 7 News (KGO) has this video report of the story.
A friendly little robot in honour of a co-worker who had her thumb bitten but was able to already laugh about it.
