Friday, January 13, 2006

San Francisco? Rejoice your Starbucks is safe....

Let's *flash back* to the news on the bomb found in the Starbucks Monday:

Sgt. Neville Gittens is quoted as stating:

Gittens would not describe the bomb or its size other than to say it "would have caused damage if it exploded.''

"If it had detonated, it would have caused damage," Gittens said. "It was what we consider an IED," an improvised explosive device.


You can all rest easy now....It was an old metal flashlight with corroded batteries and the "terrorist", a homeless man who accidently dropped the flashlight that he had found on the floor? Still in jail on an unrelated charge.

Nor does it appear he did this as any kind of a prank or with malice directed at Starbucks:

"I love that Starbucks," Schouten said in an interview with the station. "The people are saints. They know I'm homeless. They let me drink coffee for 50 cents. I love those people."

1 comment:

Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny) said...

Lisa,

Schouten, a homeless man and KNOWN to the Starbucke employees...

No reason for a "red alert" in any case.

At least the cops didn't attack him, or worse...