Seattle Police have closed off a section all of Cal Anderson Park after officers found a backpack containing a canister with wires coming from it.
The bomb squad is on the way.
Photo by Stranger news intern Alexander Brown
UPDATE @ 3:27pm: Police have reopened the park. Nothing to see here.
Can you send Charles to get the pictures? Based on his last post, I believe he’s an expert at snapping packages.
Watching this mess from my office balcony. The cops just arrested a woman who wouldn’t stop her car when they asked. They have the bomb searcher out now; it looks like a Roomba (I call it a Bomba.).
The entire park is closed off now. Where will the baseball players play? And the homeless drink on a crisp spring day?
It’ll probably end up being a bong or something.
How take make it disappear: call it gay and say it belongs to Amazon.com.
@3 a bong with a kitten in it.
@3 a kitten and SCORPIONS.
So here I sit across the street in school where none of the students know what is going on,,,so what’s happening now?
@7 what’s happening is your tax dollars are being flushed down the toilet one bill at a time as our fearless bomb squad argues over whether or not to blow up someone’s lunch leftovers because some string cheese was sticking out like wires.
because everyone knows that terrorists are going to try to blow up a park next. bin laden hates grass.
LOL, so true… just wanted to know how crazy things were.
In Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent the bomb accidentally went off in the middle of a park lawn and blew up the terrorists’ dupe.
@6: Scorpion kittens!
Skortiens.
Oh please, what’s wrong with erroring on the side of caution?
Sounds like someone’s I-pod fell into his bong again. Just another day in the park…