Imzadi
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- Oct 29, 2004
Anyone watch tonight's episode? It's a rerun, but hits waaaaay to close to home (literally) for me tonight with this episode of an Anthrax scare in a major public place of symbolism, where it would have the biggest effect. 
I live near Times Square - the "crossroads of the world." I can actually see the ball drop from my apartment window. I am usually a bit apprehensive on New Years Eve, since 9/11. This year, especially so, after the airline bomb terrorist on Christmas. Today, there was another bombing in Afganistan which killed only US. citizens.
You wouldn't believe the security measures this city routinely goes through weeks now, before NYE. They weld down the sewer manhole covers to the streets so they can't be popped open from below. They also weld any openings in the bottom of lamposts, so no one can stick a bomb in the bottom of one. They take out all the blue mailboxes and trash cans off the street corners.
The whole Times Square area goes in lockdown starting at 3 pm. If I want to get home after 3 pm, I have to show ID that I live on the block to get down my block, otherwise, I have to wait till after 12:30 am. Last year, I wanted to get a special Junior's cheesecake for a party. The bakery was 3 blocks from where the ball drops. I didn't make it there before the 3 pm lockdown deadline and a police officer had to escort me to the bakery after I got the okay from Counter Terrorism Task Force that it was okay for me to go down that way.
I see guys with jackets that say "Counter Terrorism Task Force" on their backs all over the place, and it is really disconcerting.
I was chatting with the officer who escorted me and mentioned I noticed a new procedure I saw they instituted for the first time, last year. His face went suddenly blank and he clammed up like you wouldn't believe.
Today, the bomb squad was brought in because an unmarked, white van with a temporary, expired paper license plate from NJ taped to the back window, and a weird, phony police badge tacked in the front windshield, just happened to be parked on the street everyone will be standing in tomorrow. When they opened the van, there was a weird pile of stuff inside.
After two hour bomb investigation in which they cleared the area, the news finally told us, it was a false alarm. They towed the van away. At the time. I wondered if it wasn't a practice run by terrorrists, to see how soon the van would be detected and how quickly would responders arrive to the scene.
Now, after what Rossi said on the show tonight, I wonder how much of a false alarm it actually was? Would they even be truthful with the public on the eve before the biggest night in NYC that there was actual bomb scare, and frighten all the people away for tomorrow?
There have been helicopters circling the area every several hours.
As for the Anthrax light bulb & vials shown on the show tonight, the news here, always tells us the biochemical task force is constantly measuring the air quality in Times Square on NYE for the release in any biochemical weapons. But, this episode shows, by the time one is detected, it may be way too late.
The subway trains always bypass the Times Square station on NYE. I think they actually stop the trains from running at all, under Times Square near midnight.
This was so not an appropriate episode for me to see tonight!
I'll take the serial killer episodes any day over this!
I live near Times Square - the "crossroads of the world." I can actually see the ball drop from my apartment window. I am usually a bit apprehensive on New Years Eve, since 9/11. This year, especially so, after the airline bomb terrorist on Christmas. Today, there was another bombing in Afganistan which killed only US. citizens.
You wouldn't believe the security measures this city routinely goes through weeks now, before NYE. They weld down the sewer manhole covers to the streets so they can't be popped open from below. They also weld any openings in the bottom of lamposts, so no one can stick a bomb in the bottom of one. They take out all the blue mailboxes and trash cans off the street corners.
The whole Times Square area goes in lockdown starting at 3 pm. If I want to get home after 3 pm, I have to show ID that I live on the block to get down my block, otherwise, I have to wait till after 12:30 am. Last year, I wanted to get a special Junior's cheesecake for a party. The bakery was 3 blocks from where the ball drops. I didn't make it there before the 3 pm lockdown deadline and a police officer had to escort me to the bakery after I got the okay from Counter Terrorism Task Force that it was okay for me to go down that way.
I see guys with jackets that say "Counter Terrorism Task Force" on their backs all over the place, and it is really disconcerting.
I was chatting with the officer who escorted me and mentioned I noticed a new procedure I saw they instituted for the first time, last year. His face went suddenly blank and he clammed up like you wouldn't believe.
Today, the bomb squad was brought in because an unmarked, white van with a temporary, expired paper license plate from NJ taped to the back window, and a weird, phony police badge tacked in the front windshield, just happened to be parked on the street everyone will be standing in tomorrow. When they opened the van, there was a weird pile of stuff inside.
After two hour bomb investigation in which they cleared the area, the news finally told us, it was a false alarm. They towed the van away. At the time. I wondered if it wasn't a practice run by terrorrists, to see how soon the van would be detected and how quickly would responders arrive to the scene.
Now, after what Rossi said on the show tonight, I wonder how much of a false alarm it actually was? Would they even be truthful with the public on the eve before the biggest night in NYC that there was actual bomb scare, and frighten all the people away for tomorrow? There have been helicopters circling the area every several hours.
As for the Anthrax light bulb & vials shown on the show tonight, the news here, always tells us the biochemical task force is constantly measuring the air quality in Times Square on NYE for the release in any biochemical weapons. But, this episode shows, by the time one is detected, it may be way too late.
The subway trains always bypass the Times Square station on NYE. I think they actually stop the trains from running at all, under Times Square near midnight.
This was so not an appropriate episode for me to see tonight!
I'll take the serial killer episodes any day over this!
I do too. 
It is being preempted by a local university basketball game.
I was at the school helping distribute a fundraiser. It took alot longer than we thought. I guess I will have to look for it in reruns.
