Suspicious package closes Milwaukee bridge

[PeaceNikki]

MILWAUKEE —Milwaukee Police have confirmed that a bridge near downtown has been closed because of a suspicious package.

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A department representative said they received a call just after 1 p.m. of a suspicious package located at 16th and Pierce streets.

Several streets surrounding that intersection have been closed as a precaution.


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Copy-cats? Pranksters? Paranoia?



Update: reopened. Authorities have not yet commented on the investigation or what was found in the package.

I guess we're seeing a lot of this...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I got the scanner on

Won't shock me

[PeaceNikki]

3. They must be on an incident channel I can't get

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's feed is standard stuff.



I suspect it'll turn out to be nothing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. To clarify, listening to my local FD channel

I expect another day of medical aids, crashes and the occasional fire



Ohh and one of my local FD trucks has trannie issues.

Lol

[MineralMan]

2. Could be anything. Law Enforcement is on higher alert than usual.

Just about anything looks like a suspicious package if you're looking for suspicious packages. Abundance of caution time.

This does not mean that there is a bomb, however. The likelihood is that there is not.

[OhioChick]

5. Similar happened here yesterday

No device, threat found from suspicious duffel bag at East 55th St. RTA Rapid Station in Cleveland

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/Suspicious-package-found-at-East-55th-Street-RTA-Rapid-Station-bomb-squad-at-scene

Hopefully, it's nothing.

[justiceischeap]

6. I saw lots of "suspicious" packages on my to Scranton, PA over the weekend

you'd be surprised how many trash bags and cardboard boxes litter the road. It's probably something that fell off the back of a truck.

[HereSince1628]

7. It's sort of in Milwaukees 'brown zone' the old industrial area

a bit south of Marquette University campus, and about 3 blocks north and east of where my great grandfather built hist first house in America.

[PeaceNikki]

9. Yes, and on a cold and rainy day seems an odd spot for such a thing.

As has been said by others, everyone is on high-alert and I am confident it'll turn out to be nothing. I get the 'better safe than sorry' state we're all in right now.

[Courtesy Flush]

8. Oy! This happens every time

expect a few weeks of paranoia.

[Arctic Dave]

10. Not this shit again.

Was it this?

[PeaceNikki]

11. I think it'll be even less dramatic than that.

Yeah, everybody's in freak out mode.

[Ellipsis]

12. .

[PeaceNikki]

13. :)

lol