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SFGate: Thousands of people were evacuated from San Francisco's Moscone Center on Wednesday, during Oracle and Seybold conventions, after someone threatened to blow up the building. No bomb was found.
The person, who authorities believe has made similar threats in the past, contacted the convention center about 1:20 p.m. saying a bomb had been hidden "in a dark place" and was due to go off in an hour.
OK, so why were we asked to leave at 3 p.m.?
Sam Ruby : OK, so why were we asked to leave at 3 p.m.? [ Sam Ruby ]...
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I'm glad all those billions given to Homeland Security were well spent.
Posted by Simon Jessey atBecause the call was traced to Hawaii?;-p
Posted by Don Park atAnother report said that the call came in to the police at 1:20pm and that the police notified the Moscone center at 2:20pm.... if I had to take a guess, I'd say there was probably a donut shop somewhere between the station and the center.
Posted by James Snell atWell, I was sitting next to Ross Mayfield and across from Tim Bray in the speaker's lounge at Seybold when they told us that a bomb threat had been called in to Moscone North and South (where the Oracle conference is taking place) so just to be safe...
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Excerpt from Webmink : the blog atMinor excitement abounds at the Seybold conference. Yesterday, I and 11,000 of my close personal friends were asked to evacuate the Moscone center due to a "major situation." "Boy," I said, with distinctive dry wit in tow, "that's better than a...
Excerpt from bestkungfu atBill Humphries emailed me with the news that a suspect has been arrested.
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