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WMATA sent out an alert just before 8:30 a.m. that a suspicious package investigation at Farragut West had closed the 18th & I Street station entrance, and we've since heard that the surface streets surrounding the area were also closed, leading to an impressively bad traffic jam. Metro gave the all-clear at 9:23 a.m., but not before many a commuter was stuck in a mess at the height of the morning rush. The area should be getting back to normal by now. UPDATE: The Post is now reporting that the suspicious package in question turned out to be an empty can inside a garbage bin. But what kind of a can? A soda can? A can of beans? Coffee can? CAN-bus?
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Anybody have any idea what closed traffic for about half an hour this AM on Conn. Ave. in Woodley Park? Roughly 8:10 to 8:40???
Pres Obama made his way through the neighborhood around then.
There was a police car blocking Calvert (?) near Oyster School. No idea what the reason was. But it totally messed up with my commute. Now I'm cranky.
AS A SCREAMING IDIOT WHO USES ALL CAPS, I BLAME TODAY'S COMMUTE, THE SUSPICIOUS PACKAGES, AND THE WEATHER ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
You can blame them for Pig Flu too, while you're at it.
It's Sidney Crosby's fault. He's also to blame for the rain, hangnails and the horrible coffee in my break room at work.
Don't forget butt rot and that terrible bathroom smell that no amount of Glade Vanilla Chocolate Poutpourri in a Can can disguise. It merely serves to create a vile mutant chocolate/fart aroma, not unlike that of the fudge shops/horse manure of Macinaw Island. No traffic jams there. Just poop and sweet, sweet fudge.
sigh...we're a country that's scared of our (rather large) shadow...
Spoken like a true Ham-o-geddon denier. Next thing you'll tell me is that "bacon pants" offers no innoculative properties whatsoever, you swine. I am a servant of the Secret Barbecue, Wielder of the flame of Anor. Dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udûn! Go back to the shadow!
to be fair, we're a country that casts a pretty fearsome shadow and it has lots of reasons to be pissed off, and, as i recall, it's last words before leaving were, 'when you least expect it...'
To keep my cool on the bus I simply closed my eyes and relived Saturday night with Peter, Bjorn, & John. *Swoon* Amazingtastic show.
I blame my longer than usual commute on the President of Israel and the AIPAC conference at the Convention Center. It really annoys me that I had to walk allllll the way around, just to get in the metro. It just seems foolish to me.
What kind of idiot reports a suspicious can in a garbage bin? It's a place to put trash, is it not? Next we'll be hearing about a suspicious paper bag.
A PAPER BAG? WHERE? Did it look suspicious? Was it swarthy looking? Did someone draw a hijab on it? Was it advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government? YOU SHOULD CALL 911 RIGHT NOW BEFORE THE TERRORIST BAG PUPPETS HAVE WON!
woah. woooah. WOAH.
Dude, think about it. That means that the entire garbage bin is suspicious. It's not just some can in a box. It's a can in a box in a safehouse. It's a can (in a box) being sheltered by a terrorist garbage bin. We've potentially cracked the most insidious of all home grown terrorist cells!
That bin hold a lot more than garbage, it hold secrets. That bin needs to be checked out, cut up, slammed full of sodium pentathol. Yeah, fine, it looks like a normal, patriotic, flag waving garbage bin that you'd find in any small town across America, maybe even the same kind of bin that Sarah Palin throws her extra babies in, but obviously it's not. It's part of the plot and it's in on the plan. It's half-Al Quaeda and half-Cylon. That bin hates you and me for our freedom! It is the Bin of all Fears that Tom Clancy warned us of!
Praise be to Tom Clancy!
bark bark.
Funny as hell, sure, but it's not possible to out-strange truth in this.
Ohmygawd. This isn't just any bin, it's Osama's Bin - laden with cans, paper bags and half-eaten bagels.
Way to work in a Mexican Swine Flu reference with the "can of beans."