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May 25, 2005
Better safe than sorry
Lancaster had a bomb scare yesterday:
A box suspected of being a bomb forced police to close Forest Rose Avenue for about two hours Tuesday.
A U.S. postal carrier was delivering mail in the neighborhood around 12:40 p.m. when went to 410 Forest Rose Ave.
On the porch, next to the door, was a brown cardboard box with the written message "Merry X-Mas The Santa Bomber." The carrier called 911 and the Lancaster firefighters and police responded to the scene around 12:50 p.m.
"We saw the inscription and decided we were better safe then sorry," said Lancaster Fire Capt. Tom Dempsey.
He said police set up a perimeter and stopped traffic on Forest Rose between Union Street and Sixth Avenue.
The bomb turned out to be a box of CD's. Hehe!
Posted by oz115 at May 25, 2005 08:38 AM