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As if travel and transit weren't already bad enough this Thanksgiving weekend, federal authorities are warning of a potential terrorist plot on the New York City subway system during this holiday season. And while the FBI may be calling the threat "plausible but unsubstantiated," WTOP is reporting that D.C.'s Metro system is responding by placing itself on alert as well. A Metro spokesperson told WTOP that they have "no reason to believe that the D.C. system is a target," but Metro Transit Police officers are now being put on a state of "increased vigilance and visibility," meaning you may notice more transit police in Metro stations and at bus stops.
We'll be incredibly curious to see whether this "increased vigilance and visibility" actually translates to an increased amount of "random bag searches." Let us know what you see out there when you're riding Transit over the next month.
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Oh yay!
Ah, the Morlock uprising has begun. First exploding manholes and now attacks in our subways. This uprising has been foreseen with the end of days at DCUSA coming on Friday and the the arrival in January of he who rides unicorns on rainbows. Now we shall see who the true rulers of this earth are.
Usually when I'm travelling on Metro and I have a bag, I'm either going to or coming from the gym. I hope if I get searched, it will be on the way home, and the searcher will get a handful of sweaty t-shirt and/or jock strap.
Thank God I drive! Ain't no one going to blow me up.
If you're going to carry your weed on the subway. Put it in an empty shampoo bottle and then shove it up....oh terrorists.
Never mind.
so all it takes is some wackos saying it would be nice to attack a subway to put us in a tizzy?
CNN and MSNBC are reporting that there are no plans for an attack, but that the subway in NYC would be a good target.
Duh.
Krinkle, some guys would pay you for that "privilege."
I head a plausible but unsubstantiated rumor that Peter Nickles changed his underwear, but it's only a rumor.
Meh...I just rode the Metro for a first time in a very long time and it was nothing but your typical pre-holiday jackassery.
Will this make the subway less crowded? Because if it means that I'll be less compressed against scented humanity, I'm all for it.
Now this is something that Fargo has over DC, I never have to worry about terrorism out here.
"What...I'm just trying to get to Pentagon City to buy some shampoo. Why are you hassling me? Shampoo."
"Sir, what is wrong with you?"
"Nothing! Arrghhh.....shampoo!!!!"
If there are no exceptions I'll go ahead and put my self on alert.
Does this mean we get to submit to the much promised Metro Bag Search?
I call BIG BS on Metro Security. Ride the subway and see people eating 3-course meals. Spitting out sunflower seed husks. Drinking their favorite beverage. People wearing large overcoats. Dogs and cats sleeping together.
But seriously....I do feel safe. I know that if any well-minded person saw something really suspicious,
that they would report it or jump off that train at the next station.
You can't shampoo a shampooer.
But depending on what you do, you can poo shampoo.
Yes, it's true.
Not for me but for you.
p.s. It took me four or five looks to figure out what the photo posted with this story even /is/. There's a lot of good photography on DCist, this isn't in that category.