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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Bomb scare shuts down Broadway

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, August 14, 2009

Broadway was closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic for two hours Friday afternoon after an unattended bag left near the bus stop outside A-One Pizza prompted a bomb scare. The suspicious item turned out to be nothing more than an empty laptop bag — but police took no chances.

With the New Haven Police Department’s bomb squad on the scene, police officers took cover behind trash cans and ordered bystanders into an alley while a member of the bomb squad approached the suspicious package in full protective gear. The bomb squad technician made three trips to the package...

#1 By 2010 4:05a.m. on August 15, 2009

I LOL'd

#2 By Rich T 2:14p.m. on August 15, 2009

Freaking Amazing

#3 By nate 7:54p.m. on August 15, 2009

Was there any indication as to why they thought it was a bomb?

Is someone out a bag now? Or did someone get their briefcase ganked and the thief kept the computer and ditched the bag?

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