US
All-Clear Given After World Financial Center Evacuated Over ‘Novelty Grenade’
- Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:17pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
- Print »
- Email »
A World Financial Center building across from the World Trade Center in New York was briefly evacuated midday Thursday after a suspicious package was found.
CNN reported an all-clear was given around 12:20 p.m., and that the package discovered was a “novelty grenade” or a “toy grenade.”
According to WNBC-TV, authorities ordered an evacuation of the 44-story building after a private security guard spotted the item during a routine X-ray screening and notified police. The package came through the mail, the station reported.
The item was a toy grenade mounted on a plaque that read “Complaint Dept. Pull Pin,” police told the station.
This post has been updated since it was first published.
Comments (23)
Sign In To Post Comments! Sign In
Popular Stories
Paper Details Obama Admin’s Alleged Secret Note Sent to Iran: If Israel Attacks, We Won’t Get Involved 594 Comments
This Is the Creationists‘ Response to Scientist Bill Nye’s Viral Pro-Evolution Video Claiming They Harm Children 420 Comments
‘Made Up Religion’: TV Historian Enrages Muslims, Receives Threats After Producing UK Documentary Questioning Islam’s Beginnings 415 Comments
President Obama Issues Major ‘Green Energy’ Executive Order 390 Comments
Roseanne Barr: Most Billionaires ‘Violent Pedophiles’ & ‘Heartless’ Cocaine Addicts 377 Comments
Faith
Arab-Muslim Character to Join DC Comics‘ ’Green Lantern’ Series Read More- This Is the Creationists‘ Response to Scientist Bill Nye’s Viral Pro-Evolution Video Claiming They Harm Children 420 Comments
Pakistani Muslim Cleric Accused of Framing Disabled Christian Girl in Koran-Burning Case Read More- ‘Made Up Religion’: TV Historian Enrages Muslims, Receives Threats After Producing UK Documentary Questioning Islam’s Beginnings 415 Comments
Meet the Controversial German Imam Accused of Brutally Beating His Wife & Pushing Sharia Law Read More
Business
- President Obama Issues Major ‘Green Energy’ Executive Order 390 Comments
- Germany’s Upcoming Court Ruling Will be Huge for the EU Read More
Ford Looks to Beat Toyota for Best-Selling Car in 2012 With This Model 151 Comments
Bernanke & QE3: Here’s What You Need to Know 100 Comments- ‘Extortion’: Why Did the Labor Department ‘Drop the Hammer’ on Oregon Farmers? 303 Comments
Technology
- This Is the Creationists‘ Response to Scientist Bill Nye’s Viral Pro-Evolution Video Claiming They Harm Children 420 Comments
‘TaserDrone’: Hackers Weaponize Quadcopter With Actual ‘Shocking’ Technology Read More
Ever Heard of the Wild ‘Burning Man’ Festival in the Middle of the Nev. Desert? Here’s Your Primer Read More
Stanford Develops Technology ‘Better Than Steroids’ for Athlete Recovery Read More
Have You Pretended to Know What ‘the Cloud’ Is? You’re Not Alone Read More
Submitting your tip... please wait!
Meyvn
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:46pmPretty damned stupid. It just shows that lack of common sense that is prevalent today.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:28pmWas this one of the grenades smuggled in the DOJ/BATFE “Operation Fast & Furious”?
Report Post »MrSunshine
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 4:45pmOh, a novelty grenade! Can anyone tell me where I might find a novelty LAWS rocket or perhaps a novelty M1 Abrams tank? Maybe I should just join a novelty army.
Report Post »MrSunshine
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:29pmIt was the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch!
Report Post »MrSunshine
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 4:42pmAnd the number of the counting shall be three….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:40pmOur religious Tourette’s Syndrome Troll is loose…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:37pmOur Marxists Occupiers having fun fighting their War on Capitalism ? Am sure our little misbehaving miscreants are feeling more emboldened by the recent Apple antics of their fellow comrade, Holder.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:31pmProbably another political correctness egg laid by Bloomberg.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:10pmWhew! You can imagine my concern.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:28pmPeople are such sheeple nowadays….
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:12pmSheeple are sheeple, so why should it be …
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:06pmIt seems to me they like getting put into a situation of having to serve and protect communities from the toys available. And if we have to be protected from toys with regulation, then surely they have to regulate the real things.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:40pmThey sure like trying to make a lot of smog between me and the mountains.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:46pmBefore we know it, they will be showing concrete evidence that Jesus didn’t actually literally perform the miracles he is credited with. But you should be fore-warned – keep the Faith you have.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:51pmJust 5 more replies to yourself and you’ll be done with this one, eh Tim?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:58pmGonzo,
Report Post »Well now I can’t, because you replied and ruined it.
Gonzo
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:01pmChin up buddy, you’ll get another shot at it soon.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:43pmTim:
Please just do a single multiple sentence posting. It is easier for me to scroll past.
Thanks
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:37pmAnyone else than me figure that these false reports and suspicious items are being used to probe and test response times, patterns and all for a soon-to-be real attack or event occuring?
Admittedly they could be copycat calls and such; yet I still have to wonder, as when Al Queda tried to use printer ink cartridges and the printers to bring down cargo planes; some seen it as a controlled test to gague responses, this could be the same.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:42pmI think it‘s more a matter of annoyance and bleeding the tax payers’ funds. Just like the Occupies. Typical anarchist , dysfunctional, destructive behavior.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:58pmJust like our Tourette’s Troll: cut from the same cloth.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:29pmRun you chickens run! Makes me sick how we cowtow to someone who phones in a bomb threat. Run you losers run! They would have to come get me out of my office by force, Bomb scares are a farce! When has a REAL bomb scare actually produced a real bomb except in a movie…Good grief we are all so afraid to die…Sissies!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:45pmLmao. You would have been one of those knuckleheads telling all the folks in the stairwells at the Twin Towers to go back up… it’s safer up there. Many got killed because of just that reason. What a dumbarse statement to make DOGGY. Blustery BS.
Report Post »