Unexploded Bomb Snarls Tri-Rail Traffic

[CHamilton]

Unexploded Bomb Snarls Tri-Rail Traffic

OPA-LOCKA (CBSMiami) – An unexploded ordnance created travel problems Friday afternoon.

The bomb shell was found at Trademark Recycling on Cairo Lane in Opa-locka, but was not considered dangerous....

Opa-locka once housed a naval air reserve base during the Korean War.

The Miami-Dade Police Department Bomb Squad took care of the device.

 

[fairviewroad]

I assume the item was "not considered dangerous" AFTER the investigation.

Because it makes no sense to disrupt rail traffic otherwise.

 

[George Harris]

I assume the item was "not considered dangerous" AFTER the investigation.

Because it makes no sense to disrupt rail traffic otherwise.

Probably just the usual arm waving running around like a headless chicken overreaction that occurs whenever anything that could be by the most extreme and paranoid response to anything that could possibly considered dangerous.

 

[chrsjrcj]

I remember about 10 years ago, there were two suspicious packages found at different Tri-Rail stations. Turns out they were both bagel bags....

A couple of weeks ago there was a shoot out at the Golden Glades station (just north of Opa Locka).

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/07/3919388/wild-shootout-at-golden-glades.html

 

[Ispolkom]

I assume the item was "not considered dangerous" AFTER the investigation.

Because it makes no sense to disrupt rail traffic otherwise.

Probably just the usual arm waving running around like a headless chicken overreaction that occurs whenever anything that could be by the most extreme and paranoid response to anything that could possibly considered dangerous.

I just watched a documentary on PBS, where the presenter mentioned in passing that Belgian and French farmers who farm the former World War I front lines stack up the unexploded munitions they plow up every spring in little piles by the road. Every once in a while combat engineers come along and either detonate them in place, or remove them for later disposal. A reasonable and elegant response to a problem that won't go away. Of course, every once in a while a farmer and his tractor are blown up...

 

[fairviewroad]

I assume the item was "not considered dangerous" AFTER the investigation.

Because it makes no sense to disrupt rail traffic otherwise.

Probably just the usual arm waving running around like a headless chicken overreaction that occurs whenever anything that could be by the most extreme and paranoid response to anything that could possibly considered dangerous.

I get where you're coming from, but at least in this case it was something that as first blush had the legitimate potential for exploding. Very different than those "unattended bags" that always turn out to be innocuous.