Guess What Suspended LIRR Service For 2 Hours? Coolers

The MTA wants everyone to "See Something, Say Something" forever, and people are doing just that. Last night, Long Island Rail Road service between Huntington and Hicksville on the Port Jefferson line was suspended, thanks to some white coolers.

According to Newsday, the two boxes "suspected to be bombs were found near the track" by the Woodbury Road overpass, so the Nassau County Police Bomb Squad was called to the scene. Power was shut down between 7 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. Flashback: Times Square was shut down thanks to a ham sandwich and a cooler last year.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 12, 2011 12:06 PM

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Guest

Hey, remember the story of that PA lieutenant that let the PATH train go and he was the subject of a snarky Gothamist article with the same predictable people chiming in (Including me, I guess)? And remember I said that it was damned if you do, damned if you don't - that if he stopped the train that there'd would be another article full of snark about cowards and fear and all that shit?

Turns out I couldn't have been more right.

seattlesnow

Dude open it, Naw dude you open it... Let's call the rookie he'll do it

Peter Rosa

America = a nation of panty piddling cowards. News flash: Islam is NOT going to Conquer the World.

angry_pickle

Islam is NOT going to Conquer the World.

If everyone had this attitude, we would all be muslims by now.

Billteud

If everyone had your cowardly attitude, we'd all live in a fascist dictatorship by now.

Drunk drivers kill more than 100 times as many innocent people as terrorists. Where's the War on Drunk Driving? Where's the color-coded threat level for days you're more likely to be run over? (Red on Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and Memorial Day weekend.) Why aren't they being tortured in the name of keeping our children safe?