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2006/3/22-23 [Transportation/PublicTransit] UID:42376 Activity:moderate
3/21    This was fucking irritating:
        http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/22/MNGREHS8KD4.DTL
        \_ Gosh, that's too bad. Here in Texas we don't have that problem.
           \_ What, no fake bomb threats in Texas?
              \_ No meaningful public transportation.
                 \_ The buses in the downtown Austin area didn't seem that
                    bad to me when I was there.
           \_ Yes, but in Texas you can be arrested for being drunk in a bar.
        \_ Things like this make me understand why Singapore allows caning.
        \_ i'll irritate YOUR fucking
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Email This Article (03-22) 11:16 PST OAKLAND -- BART trains are back on schedule after a bomb scare halted all transbay service during rush hour and led to the evacuation of the West Oakland BART station, officials said. BART police have released two suspects who were questioned about the false threat after a witness was not able to identify them, said agency spokesman Linton Johnson. All service between the East Bay and San Francisco was halted for about 50 minutes, stranding an estimated 20,000 passengers. The West Oakland BART station reopened at 8:52 am The shutdown was ordered shortly after 8 am, when a supervisor at the 12th Street station in Oakland heard two men on the platform yelling that there was a bomb aboard a train that was just departing for San Francisco, Johnson said. BART police evacuated the train at the West Oakland station and then closed the station while they searched for evidence of an explosive device with the assistance of bomb-sniffing dogs, Johnson said. "The one time you don't is the one time something explodes. We're going to prosecute to the full extent of the law." Some riders who were evacuated said they had been informed by an announcement of a police emergency in West Oakland. But Larry Kampa of Walnut Creek said the operator of his train gave no reason why they needed to get off when it stopped shortly after 8 am in West Oakland. "Then we waited on the platform for about 10 minutes, and then everybody started heading downstairs. We got outside and they closed the gates to the station." Kampa, who works at a law firm in San Francisco, said he had called his office, where someone checked the BART Web page. "All it said was trains were closed due to a police action. "We've been here close to an hour almost without knowing what's going on,'' Kampa said. "If you are going to evacuate the trains, tell the people why.