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Bomb scare in New York 's Union Square turns out to be a dud | People in New York had another bomb scare when
a couple of five gallon gas cans were found in the back seat of a car parked in Union Square last night. It immediately prompted the evacuation of 600 people
and briefly trapped hundreds of punk-rock fans attending a concert at Irving Plaza
. It later turned out the suspicious car was owned by a gardener who uses gas
cans to fill his lawn mower. The call first came in to cops at 10:16 p.m. from
a Con Ed worker on his break who noticed the containers in the car parked in front
of the building at 4 Irving Place . Within moments, cops and bomb squad experts
swarmed the area to check out the 1991 Oldsmobile. The cops kept hundreds of fans
inside Irving Plaza -- where a Buzzcocks concert was about to let out -- before
finally letting them out the back door. By midnight, the owner of the vehicle,
who had been at the concert, returned and was none too happy -- especially when
he saw that cops had blown out his windows with two controlled blasts. "What happened!
What happened!" he kept asking police. "What's wrong? I didn't do anything." Police
determined "there was no malicious intent" on the part of the gardener and declared
an all-clear. Thursday's scare came almost two weeks after New York 's Time Square
was sealed off after a parked SUV car caught fire. Police later discovered that
the car was wired with explosives that contained fertiliser of not very good quality.
A search for the owner of the vehicle resulted in the arrest of a Pakistan-American
Faisal Shahzad. He is currently under investigation. |
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