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The MTA is refreshing its campaign to remind mass transit riders to "See Something, Say Something" with some new print and television spots. The work acknowledges that the MTA and/or the police received 1,944 tips in 2006 (a total of 9,000 calls were made to 888-NYC-SAFE). MTA Executive Director and CEO Elliot G. Sander said, "We are proud that our customers play such an active role in keeping the system safe, and I am not surprised that the campaign has been copied around the world, from Chicago to Amsterdam. Keeping our customers safe remains the MTA's top priority."

Earlier this week, some Pratt art students decided to leave a duffel bags and backpacks full crap (the Post, comic books) in various subway and cars stations in what the Daily News described as a "bid to show the ineptitude of the MTA and NYPD." And inside the packages? The MTA security saying, "See Something, Say Something." Well, it was an ultimately unsuccessful bid, as Robert Barrett and Jamie Davis were arrested and charged with planting fake bombs within five hours. The Daily News reports that the packages, which were left on the G, L, 5 and 1 trains and at the Union Square station, were found by passengers and MTA employees. And the police said that materials in the packages led them back to Barrett and Davis. Hilarious - they probably left junk mail in there! Either that or an art school enemy turned them in.

Even though we live in a "See Something, Say Something" subway society, it turns out that the MTA's evacuation plans are the same ones from before Spetember 11. AMNY explains:

New hires, such as motormen, conductors and cleaners, generally receive several hours of evacuation training at the Coney Island Rail Yards, then get a refresher course once every three years. In the interim, workers are issued the same 21/2-page, 17-point bulletin that provides general instructions on how to lead riders out of a station in the event of a terror attack, fire, flood or power outage. Not a single word in that plan has changed since 9/11.

Though the union is concerned, the MTA has, on the face of things, claimed its plans are great, as evacuations went well during September 11 and and the blackout. But the MTA is working with a contractor to review evacuation procedures - expect a most-likely startling report later this year.

NY Times writer Jake Mooney contemplated his missing home-delivered NY Times, wondering the best way to smoke out the culprit. Short of a surveillance camera and a special invisible trap, there aren't many options, even when another neighbor puts up a sign demanding that the stealing stop (our experience is that signs only shame, but rarely get people to change their actions). This is something Gothamist has wondered about - the "See Something, Take Something" or "Don't Question, Just Take" attitude of most people. Sure, if it's a gently-read newspaper on an empty subway, it's for the taking, but when you're missing your NY Times magazine, do you really have to steal your neighbors? Thinking more about it, here are the other things neighbors have been known to steal:

- It's been twenty five years since John Lennon was shot in front of the Dakota.

The Mayor is speaking! The Police Commissioner there! The FBI just shared some "specific" threat information about a threat to the NYC subways. The Mayor is trying to reassure commuters that the NYPD has done a lot (shout out to the Hercules team and subway bag checkers). He also says that a media outlet got the tip two days ago and held it. Also, shout out to "See Something, Say Something." A cynical theory: The Mayor is using this to draw attention away from tonight's debate! A paranoid idea: We're walking home, even though the Mayor is taking the subway tonight and tomorrow morning.