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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The suspicious package that caused police to shut down streets around the main post office in downtown Birmingham this morning turned out to be a pair of tennis shoes in a shoe box, Birmingham police say.
(Thanks to Allen at Division)
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To identify the package, police brought in a Skecher artist.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 24, 2011 at 01:44 PM
Some tennis shoes would qualify as chemical weapons, requiring hazmat suits (or at least gas masks) to handle.
Posted by: wiredog | March 24, 2011 at 01:46 PM
I once forgot a bright red nylon lunch bag on a counter at my bank. Hours later I found out it had caused quite a stir.
Guess you hadda be there.
Posted by: Just Some Guy | March 24, 2011 at 01:47 PM
*snork* at Annie.
Posted by: Tash | March 24, 2011 at 01:54 PM
How is it that packages are suspicious? When a person is suspicious, they are expecting something bad -- see thread above. Someone's BEHAVIOR can be suspicious. But how can a package BE suspiciou?
Just asking. There a Language Person around here?
Posted by: Tash | March 24, 2011 at 01:57 PM
i saw suspicious package open for the tubes in '79.
Posted by: mudstuffin in klumbus | March 24, 2011 at 02:02 PM
I always worry about leaving my collection of alarm clocks somewhere by accident. No tellin what would happen to them.
Posted by: oldfatguy | March 24, 2011 at 02:08 PM
'Bama? First shoes they'd seen in months. Had to be from some damn Yankee terrorist.
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 24, 2011 at 02:14 PM
In Israel a 'suspicious package' blew up and killed 1, injured 25. Yesterday.
Don't believe it can't happen here.
Posted by: aretha george | March 24, 2011 at 09:04 PM
In Detroit, suspicious packages are put in the "lost and found."
Posted by: Ralph | March 25, 2011 at 01:52 AM