Passengers board and exit the DART public transportation system at the St. Paul Station in Dallas. (credit: DART)
By Andrea Lucia, CBS 11 NewsDALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Mockingbird DART station and the surrounding area, including the Angelika Theater, were evacuated Saturday after a police dog alerted authorities to a passenger onboard with two suspicious packages, a spokesman said.
Riders traveling through downtown stations reportedly expressed alarm after a man asked them for help carrying a duffel bag and a large box.
Bomb technicians with the Dallas Police Department determined the packages were not a threat about two hours after the evacuation, said DART spokesman Morgan Lyons.
“He was actually trying to pay people to help him get packages on and off the train,” Lyons said.
The man with the packages remained with DPD through the afternoon, though he was not arrested.
“Inconvenient for sure, but we’re all okay – and that’s what matters,” said Kim Speer, who was attempting to return home with her two children.
Red and Blue Lines were affected, and passengers were rerouted to other stops and connected with buses. The Mockingbird station was reopened around 5 p.m. Saturday.
Nationwide, transit systems have been on high alert because of fears al Quaeda could retaliate for the death of Osama Bin Laden. Here in North Texas, the NBA playoffs have had heightened security at the American Airlines Center.
The FBI is also investigating suspicious letters with a Dallas postmark found at Washington D.C. area schools. They are similar to other letters sent to D.C. schools this week containing a white powder.
One of them referenced al Qaeda .
“The customers are aware of what’s going on in the world. We’re aware of what’s going on in the world,” said Lyons.
Like the power laced letters, the package at Mockingbird station was found to be harmless.
Still, no one at all seemed to mind the dose of extra caution.
“We live in a major metroplex, so you never know what’s going to happen. Better safe than sorry,” said Speer.
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Please include a picture of a “suspicious package” so I will be able to properly identify one in the future.
Over 30,000 killed on the US/Mexico border in the last 3 years and barely a word in the news, but be very very afraid of a package.
No one believes these people anymore.
http://911essentials.com
The U.S. Mexico border is a priority but your 911ASSHATsentials site is NO BETTER THAN THE BS MEDIA.
Stop lying about 9/11 – MUSLIM TERRORISTS DID IT and you are helping them by saying they did not the same was the MSM is ignoring our border with Mexico.
You are so right!!!!!
one million illegal aliens enter the usa through the mexican border some of them are terrorist planning to kill innocent men women and our children and uncle scam not only doen nothing to stop them but actually encourages them and lures them with free government handouts,, its the same as our own government is helping terrorist kill us and helping illegal mexicans destroy our economy….whos side is washington one anyway??? it sure as he** is not our side.
Actually the news has been talking about the people being killed on the border. The states that need help have been SCREAMING for help these last two years. It’s just that the current sitting president refuse to do anything and won’t back up those states that do decide to do something.
Remember when Arizona Gov decided to do something? What did Obama do? Sue them….. blame the “do nothing” on the hopey changey guy.
Ande we have a pres who lavishly entertains the hispanics at the WH securing votes from them including the illegal ones that he will make certain will vote. This administration is spending more on them than the millions needed to secure our borders! Country was never first with him…
The news media probably doesn’t have a picture or at least a clear one. I doubt that they were allowed to get that close.
A suspicious package is any package carried by said suspicious person
It can also be any package that looks unusual or out of place. They really can’t tell you for sure what a suspicious package looks like.
You missed the sarcasm
OK. Then just show us what a non-suspicious package looks like.
And a suspicious person is anyone standing with their hands in their pockets, or with a Ron Paul sticker on their forehead.
Good Grief!!! Listen to all of you! If you asked the majority of Texas, all of them would tell you that they believed in the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. If you do, then why don’t you trust him to protect you? Better to trust him to protect you than this feeble, feeble, corrupt government who needs you to be scared to death so they can control you!!!!
XD totally
you didn’t say suspicious person you said suspicious package so it can’t
be a ‘ said ‘ supspicious person just a said person, see (how it works) ‘
A suspicious package is one carried by a Towelish adherent of the Religion ‘O Peace ™.
Really? Doesn’t like every twentieth person or so with a package look inordinately suspect on DART? Maybe it is just my imagination.
Miller got it
There was no bomb threat, maybe a bomb scare. You should know the difference.
I submit that Jerome Corsi’s book release next week, will hit the political class in DC like a “bomb” with lasting fallout. Sneek Peek: http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/another_look_at_obamas.htm
There was no bomb threat and these people are morons.
Sarcasm duly noted. Thing is, unattended package = suspicious package. This ain’t Mayberry anymore.
If we would not have over reacted to every whiff of their stench by creating a climate of fear in America, then they would not have won.
Unfortunately, they have succeeded in terrorizing America. We are afraid of our shadow. So they have won by default.
Pay attention, Barn! Thet thar package tweren’t unattended! The man was
asking for help totin’.
Why didn’t they just shoot him in the back and execute him per SOP??
Then bury him at sea?
LOL
It’s funny now……
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H. L. Mencken
———– http://911essentials.com
imaginary??? you mean like the three muslims who went crazy on the three different us flights yesterday?? wow ya thats carzy alright..
So much for my new line of Suspicious brand travel accessories. On a serious note, I’d love to see what does make a package look suspcious…
If anyone spreads fear it is the media. Of course, we expect the threat to rise, but we don’t freak out. We are aware and calm.
“Still, no one at all seemed to mind the dose of extra caution.”
Except maybe the poor guy schlepping all the bags who had to spend his day at the police station.
I disagree, a suspicious person may not be interesting so his or her bags will not be suspicious, however if you have an interesting person his/her bags are interesting and suspicious. He/she can now be detained and held as an interesting person and the bags are both interesting and suspicious.
Round up the “Ususal Suspects”
This is just the CIA wanting to keep their budget up….the evidently sent their agents to work this weekend causing all these little incidents to keep the sheep scared.
We spent $1T a year on you criminals for the last 10 years and its still not enough, eh?
Dear Govt,
Stop trying to keep us safe. It’s not your job. Your job is to keep us free.
Thanks,
People
Stop interfering with the Second Amendment. We will keep ourselves safe.
Actually, it is their job to keep us safe, LOL. It’s part of our constitutional rights. BUT~~ they are only supposed to protect us militarily in the event we are attacked. Not carrying our baggage onto a train.
Amen to that
“Inconvenient for sure, but we’re all okay – and that’s what matters,”
This rationale can justify anything, as does, “If it saves just one life, its all worth it”
How right you are. I can’t believe all those people were amenable to being delayed and detained. I would have been irate. You sheeple should just stay at home with the curtains drawn and the doors locked. If you’re that damned scared of other people’s “suspicious” packages then do the rest of us a favor and stay home.
Sheep. Stop letting the government scare you out of your freedoms and believing some Imam is coming to get you in the night. The US government equates “terrorists” to boogeymen. To me, this is a terrifying state of affairs when no one questions anything anymore.
We Become the ENEMY , WHEN FREEDOM DIE’S FOR SECURITY!!…
Only in Texas.
No, not only in TX. It’s going on all over the country. Look at the rash of terror scare headlines today. Datelines include NY, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, Denver, TN, San Francisco…
Wow that’s why Barney now carries a sub machine gun!!! I was wondering why they let him have more than one bullet.
People gotta stop being so paranoid or they have already won. Remember the definition of terrorism is the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. Key words threats to intimidate.
Everything is suspicious! LOL! You look suspicious so we will have a TSA agent pull your pants down and give you a good groping.
Greg, read your constituion. Keeping this country safe is the Federal government’s PRIMARY concern and job.
I wish they would do that then and stop worrying about what food I eat.
Gee, I thought it was making sure foreign and domestic banks steal trillions while the population is distracted by fake wars, fake terror, sports and Hollyweird. USA! USA!
That’s because you think for yourself. Just stop that and turn your TV on.
a strong national defense, yes. taking away someone’s right to carry a box without suspicion, no.
“…but we’re all okay – and that’s what matters,”
As long as that attitude prevails the security state will expand and expand make your life more difficult with the possibility of being swept up into something nightmarish. Now would be a good time to buy some land overseas as any fool can see where this is all headed. Just waiting for them to conjure up another 911 event and we’re all done for.
They had a suspicious package but, in keeping with tradition, had it dropped into the sea. They had video of one….but then it turns out that was incorrect and that in fact the video was off when they approached the package. But, we did find lots of video of the package watching itself on the television….
LMAO and I have pictures of me sending that check in last week… but I am not going to show them to you… because you need to uhhh… trust me…..
TSA agent to a frequent flyer : ” Is that a gun in your pocket? “
a police dog alerted authorities to a passenger onboard with two suspicious packages, a spokesman said.
a POLICE DOG LOL
The Federal Govt wants us to be in FEAR constantly, so that the TSA can start fondling our genitals for TRAIN rides now… Next , it’s Shopping Malls, and Libraries, Grocery Stores…
ENOUGH!!!! The media is focusing our attentions on this now until they achieve their goal.
Are You Kidding Me! USA, Keep the 3 billion you send to Pakistan and buy a spine!
This is totally getting to be stupidly insane. The damn terrorists totally won in the war against terrorism. If we’re all going to live in fear every single day; everywhere we go, then terrorism have won. And we all are … we are all being groped at the airport; and I suspect coming soon to train stations, malls and groceries stores. The basics and basis of an American, helping others with luggages or needs have pretty much gone with the question (Has anyone else handled your luggage?) at the check in counter at the airport. The fear has turned Americans from a helpful society to a fearful one.
This is a sad day for America … that’s all I got to say.
And then some idiot finds a new constitutional right to safety , to many babies in this country.
Terrorism = Fear
Being fearful = cowerdes
cowerdes = being afraid of one’s own shadow
being afraid of one’s own shadow = America
America = Terrorized
It appears that they won
America has become stupid!
Achtung! Machen zie schnell! Dis ist der Gestapo und you are all unda arrest fer crimez against der Stadt!
lol…the media said..”the US is freaking Out” . That reporter is a liar. NO American is “freaking Out”. The muslims are the ones freaking out.
I think anyone discussing a suspicious package is suspicious. Can anyone besides myself see where this is going? Its time for Americans to stop being afraid and start getting angry. Enough is enough! Lets declare a real war and fight real wars! Bomb Bomb Bomb. Deport the Muslims here back to where they came from. Eliminate the threat! Government is suppose to stand up for Americans not Foreigners. War is Coming if our government doesn’t change its ways. Americans will only take this for so long. You can only kick a dog so many times before it bites you. This is nature! This is what will Happen!
Are you willfully stupid? Do you NOT know we ARE bombing Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan?
Oh, yes; the United States is some sort of underdog.
Dallas where a Boy scout offering a woman escort across the street is suspicious.
Inconvient but at least we are all safe? F-ing idiot! Not with you around. Go home lock yourself in a closet and stay there. We’d all be better off with nurotic accusers off the planet and that includes the entire TSA.
If Obama really wanted to maximize the intelligence value after taking out Osama… why the hell did He broadcast the fact that He was dead?
Think of the element of surprise our forces could have on the rest of ALLCIADUH
Oh yeah that’s right… there is no such thing as ALLCIADUH
This was all a propaganda stunt.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
[Benjamin Franklin]
Everybody has always known that Pakistanis are liars. They are not, and never have been our friend. STOP sending money to these freaks. I believe that ANY and ALL funds, sent to various countries, SHOULD BE VOTED ON BY WE THE PEOPLE! NOT DECIDED BY POLITICIANS,CONGRESS, OR President.
Please correct: “Like the power laced letters, the package at Mockingbird station was found to be harmless.” I think the editor missed “powder”.
Female TSA Agent to young hunk with suspicious buldge …: “Is that a gun or, are you just happy to see me?”
Welcome to incremental totalitarianism and the police state.
So the king of terror is working us from his water grave forever, we all forgot about the fact that we have no jobs and no homes and no money. Who believes this anymore
This is Satan’s Army at work. He will make you swear allegiance to him for “protection”.
Let’s have everyone be given an ID to scan, in a government-installed scanner, IN ORDER TO LEAVE OUR HOMES.
Put the actual homeless in “Homeless Zones” and give them ID’s to leave (but only to shop or attend church).
Make sure the Authorized “Freedom of Domicile Egress” ID scanners have fingerprint-, iris-, and voice-recognition capabilities.
THEN WE CAN ALL FEEL NICE AND SAFE.
If we had someone with ba*ls running the country in the 90′s we wouldn’t be in this place, right Bill ? . Today we still have no one running the country . We better start cavity searches….
Idiots. Sheep.
Look at how Al Qaeda can control us without even trying! All it takes is one gutless American like this “Kim Speer” and sorry, you will all have to be inconvenienced because I am afraid for my children! The enemy laughs at us. It is shameful for today’s Americans to act this way. She probably has a “Baby on Board!” sign in her car, too. As if that means something to other drivers!
let’s hope with all these “false alarms” going on lately, that incase there is a real emergency we dont let our Guard down.
Fake terror, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.
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I’ve not seen a single shed of evidence that would indicate bin Laden was assassinated. In fact, I doubt that he was. The fact that so-called bin Laden threats against the US would be found — and that a crackdown on Americans would follow — was however predictable. They never miss an opportunity to rob decent people of their rights. If they were serious about the alleged war on terror they would seal the southern border and investigate what happened to “Building 7″ rather than cover it up.
Exactly
kokookoko
This is all hyped up fear to bring the sheep into a Police State. !/2 of Americans are aware of the Globalist Parasitic Elite Class working to bring us into tyranny by “a thousand little cuts”… And the other 1/2 believe everything the mainstream media throws at them. They worship at the alter of mainstream reality and like any religious fanatic, won’t look at the evidence and won’t hear anything that might contradict their little house of cards known as the Mainstream Reality.
What gets me is that, with most people..regardless of how illegal the activity of the Govt. is, they can just pass a law.. and, people seeing the “L” word will simply shut down and say “well, the law says you can’t grow vegetables on your property anymore” or “the law says you can’t question the govt.” etc..And they will go along with it.
Meanwhile, those of us who are awake, are pounding our heads against the wall, wondering what separates those of us who see the truth and the rest of the public lost in a fast food, GMO nightmare complete with poison tap water.
Keeping us “safe” is not the job of the govt. They should be worried about keeping the US alive Financially and stopping Illegal Immigrants on the southern border.
It’s on RECORD that Al Qaeda is a CIA creation and the Elite are using this nonsence to bring the US into Tyranny. If you don’t understand this, you will be a victim of it.
infowars.com
Government wants coplete control over all forms of transportation. The patriots from Amtrak have banned the controvercial TSA. Now the establishment hacks in the government want to fearmonger. The government wants to control transportation so they know where everyone is and to guard aginst people throwing them out of their offices. I find it suspicous that the country is on economic life support and the adminstration can only get points by flag waving a dead terrorist that we funded in the 80′s and 90′s. When there are no jobs, high priced gas, and the dollar is toilet paper, the government will try to rally the people against another boogey man to take the blaim.
While it could be tragic for a few people in the station or on a train, this isn’t the stuff we have to be too concerned about. Cargo container security is the week link. Every year millions of 40′ long cargo containers arrive and are quickly delivered all over the USA. None are searched. Security is mostly an assurance from the sending port that the container is safe. A container could contain 60,000 pounds of PETN, or a nuke, and be trucked to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, or the middle of your city, and detonated.
All of you complaing about the guy who got detained for a while, if there was actually a bomb and it exploded, you would be complaing that they weren’t watching closely enough. Either way, nobody is happy about anything. Personally, I’d rather have it inconvenient for one man than a whole bunch of people be affected for life because nobody bothered checking for a bomb when it looked alittle suspicious.
God Bless our Police and Soldiers! We thank you.
The nanny state loves it when the general population is filled with wimps and loser-it justifies their existence.
The DrudgeReport links to this page with his headline “US Freakout: Terror Alert; False Alarms”. How can this in any way be called a “Freak Out”? People are being cautious, they’re a little edgy. Why try to make Americans seem like they’re in panic when they clearly aren’t?
Because Drudge gets paid whenever anyone clicks on one of his links. He’s corrupt like the rest of them.
The DPD held him most of the entire afternoon?!? Why?!? Once they looked inside the packages and ascertain there was nothing dangerous in them, they should had let him go on his way!! I see people nowadays pretty much everywhere, young and old, carrying backups at movie theaters (why do you need a backpack when you go to a movie and the ushers can’t keep you from entering the theater with it or search it), shopping malls, restaurants, etc etc So technically, wouldn’t that make everyone suspicious now? Furthermore, many of these back-packers are kids, from high school age to FIRST GRADE; therefore, if we take a minute and apply TSA’s warped mentality of who is a potential “Terrorist”, THEY ARE ALL TERRORISTS!! Finally, BASED on this NEWS ARTICLE, everyone going in and out of a Post Office or a Package/Postal Shipping Store like Kinko’s and UPS Store is SUSPICIOUS and a TERRORIST THREAT!
Susipcious packages created by the rothchild zionists!
I meant backpacks, not backups, at movie theater….
Terrorism is working!!!! They have us scared to death!!!
I wonder why he was offering money to put the packages on and off the train…He may have been a foreigner. In some countries you do not expect people to help a stranger unless they are paid…
How many thousand black Americans were slaughtered in inner cities in the last 5 years? With minimal attention or worry?
The terrorist have won….well the supposed terrorist…the authors of the police state have suceeded at least
Where is Harry Truman when we need him. Instead we get “Achmed the puppet” for a president. What’s wrong with 50% of us? The handwriting is on the wall everyone and the people who turned the guy in with the packages is right. They are still on this earth with everyone else that might have gotten on that train.
Looks like profiling. Thought that was not permitted.
oh my have we become a scared bunch of little girls, they shut down a whole mall here in Burlington ma over an umbrella in a back pack. help me there’s a dark shadow fallowing every where i go i think its a terrorist i cant seem to lose him send the swat team and the national guard quick im scared. so so sad what we have become its so embarrassing the home of the brave yeah right its now the home of the paralyzed with fear. man up america , we once defeated England to claim this land we live on , we kicked right to the shore and won if that happen today we would just text them i surrender can i keep my cell phone please. sick man real sick
I would just like anyone that believes this garbage to ask themselves a few questions.
Where are you getting your information? Main stream media? One channel, or do you watch more than one channel? Do you read? Have you ever done any independent research? Do you only associate with people that agree with you? Do you think mainly in terms of Democrat/Republican or do you think of yourself as an American first and foremost? Have you ever traveled to other countries and stayed long enough to realize the impact/control that governments have over the life for their citizens? Do you believe that you are smart enough to think for yourself and come to your own conclusions? Just wondering….
Tiberuis Franklin 3minutes ago
Well, now that the TSA is squeezing your balls looking for terrorists let’s look at the evidence of an al queda 911
Is there any repetitive events on that date?
yes there is!
september 11 1776 – Franklin tells British adm. Howe, we will not rescind our declaration of independence on Staten Island, 4 days later Howe attacks Gen Washington BY SURPRISE on manhattan island at the battle of Manhattan. a year later we take staten island from the british at the battle of fresh kills.
september 11 1812 – British sink american ships and start the war of 1812, raid our coastlines, burned the whitehouse
september 11 1864 – british financed union troops burn atlanta to the ground – the capital of the american merchantile trade – their global competitor
september 11 1912 – british rhodes scholar Edward House, meets with JP Morgan, Sam Chase and Goldman to plan the jekyll island secret meeting to put wilson in the whitehouse, and bring in graduated income tax, a right to work, a demand for cataloging all the living resources animal and human.
september 11 2001 another SURPRISE ATTACK on trade buldings on top of the location of the battle of manhattan in 1776, and the dead are buried at fresh-kills garbage dump on top of the location of the battle of Fresh-kills in 1777
now really people, copy and paste this and spread it around. We are at war with a banking RICO orchestrated out of the central banks and the Bank of London, the majority share holder of the Federal REserve Bank of New York.
It seems clear to me that we should now start paying attention to the fact that 50,000 FEMA officers have been hired, the entire military is out of the country, concentration camps have been built by Halliburton – are empty but manned with guards, the fox is in the hen house
and the fat 40 something TSA guy just put his fingers up your daughters vagina looking for terrorists…
Now America; now is the time to act, we may never get a better chance to bring back our republic for our ancestors; Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington…and all those that died to protect our freedoms from the likes of TSA, the Banks and the Democracy turd we have as a ruler, not a government.
People here are too weak, brainwashed, doped up on prescription meds, etc. to do anything. I knew it was over when people volunteered to let the government molest their children. America is dead. It’s over.
This is just them overexploiting America’s pathetic PC over kill that actually shields our real enemies from scrutiny while they rape everyone else to give the ‘impression’ of security without coming close to actually providing it.
These die hards know all they have to do is get on a plane, start chanting, twirling their hairyassed mustache’s and beards and we have to react because they’re there in the first place. All male Muslim immigration should be halted for a decade while we kill off the generation of terrorists already here waiting for their clarion call to arms which could come at any freaking day now.
It’s ridiculous when you have idiots on MSNBC declaring ‘the war on terror is now over’ and other equally ignorant arguments like waterboarding it torture but sneaking 70 armed Special forces in the middle of the night into their lair and shoot one in the head and their woman isn’t torture….Idiots and nothing more who would rather see America attacked again than face the truth and admit they were wrong. That simple.
Meanwhile you’d think the lefties were all Chuck Norris fans and FOID card carrying armed 2nd Amendment lefties all of a sudden wrapping themselves in the flag and the whacking of Bin laden which supposedly goes against everything they’ve been fighting us on since 911.