Yes, I do read the comments -- and the suspicious device at Finch Subway in Toronto was all over the internet newspaper pages yesterday. Traffic and commuting in north Toronto were in chaos yesterday afternoon.
I was stopped at the Sheppard Subway, two stops south, and the place was swarming with police who muttered about a bomb. But on the radio -- nothing I heard -- and today the papers seem to have overlooked the story.
In the end, the suspicious package turned out to be nothing more than a knapsack with some tubes sticking out of it. The station was eventually declared safe and passengers were allowed to travel straight up the line around 5:15pm.
A major Toronto transport hub was closed for at least 5 hours yesterday -- because of a fear of a bomb -- and today silence? Maybe everyone feels silly because it was nothing but to my mind the whole thing is odd.
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Thanks for the response, James. I honestly couldn't find anything about this situation & all I knew was what you posted - in 2 posts. So I was very perplexed by it. Appreciate your letting us know.
Media has a quiet agreement with police not to report on bomb hoaxes, because there would be a dramatic increase in the number of them if they did. Same reason you don't hear about suicides in the news, the reporting of these events would cause them to occur with greater frequency.
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