New York, NY – A suspicious truck abandoned Wednesday several yards from a toll booth near the Manhattan side of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge turned out to be empty and not a threat, the New York Police Department said.
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The bridge reopened for traffic after being closed briefly Wednesday night.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said a bridge authority officer believed he smelled gasoline coming from the truck and he saw a man flee the vehicle.
The NYPD bomb squad and other emergency responders rushed to the scene in a city still jittery from the attempted car bomb attack in Times Square on Saturday.
Police X-rayed the truck and cut a hole in the side and discovered it was empty. They inspected the engine and the undercarriage. “Nothing was found,” Browne said.
The vehicle, described as a U-Haul or Ryder truck, was then moved near the toll plaza. Police were looking to speak to the person who abandoned it. “We don’t know why he fled,” Browne said.
Browne said the truck had been driven from the Bronx, toward Manhattan and the man fled in the direction of Queens.
Traffic on the bridge resumed around midnight.
The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge formerly was called the Triborough Bridge. It’s a complex of spans connecting Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.
Give it up to Mr. “I’ll bet 25 cents it’s a white man” Bloomy, Mr. “we are not Jack Bauer” Kelly, Mrs. “the system worked like it should” Big Sis Napalatano, and Mr.. Muslim him self Hussain Obama
They need to check all outgoing flights.
i wonder why a car would smell of gas, i mean since when do you find gasoline in the electric-car era.
stop wasting yo time….we dont have islamic terrorists….just some disgruntled individuals who want to kill americans and jews.
here we go again
Are we going to shut down the bridges and tunnels every time a truck runs out of gas or has mechanical problems. Its like 9/11 all over again.
Maybe its some illegal immigrant who escaped Arizona!!
Why would it smell like gas if it’s out of gas?
So much for security at bridges and tunnels. Where the heavens are the officers manning these posts?
B”H
maybe they r testing the police to see how they respond… we passed 🙂
The dummy us will now stop every u haul and of course on every bridge… Such dumm straight heads
you should see what time square looks like, a beehive of officers. every ten feet you walk there is another closter of cops, the security is unreal.
Shut down breifly? I was sitting right in fron of the toll both for almost 3 hours!!!
coming NEW LAW if car leaved open then………..
I think the guy probably didn’t have TOLL money, so he got a free tow from the cops to the other side of the bridge
this truck can very well have been planted by terrorists as a message that when/if they wanted they could strike us anywhere. That may have been the message from the times square incident as well. Faizal Shahzad is an educated man with 2 american university degrees, comes from a prominent family & married into a prominent family. creating a bomb from an engineering perspective is an easy task. The times square bomb wansnt particularly sophisticated. The question that begs to be asked is WHY NOT? this may have been intentional. it looks like they’re sending the americans a message. Behind closed doors, the americans may be negotiating with terrorists over prisoner release or what not, and the terrorists are flexing their muscles