Truck causes brief evacuation, bomb scare in Oklahoma City

[alp227]

Source: CNN

A suspicious U-Haul truck parked near City Hall triggered a brief bomb scare Wednesday in Oklahoma City.

Officials evacuated City Hall and another nearby building as a bomb squad searched the unattended vehicle, which was reported stolen, CNN affiliate KOCO reported.

Shortly afterward, police said the truck was empty and that there was no threat.

The incident took place two days after a double bombing at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 180, and two days before the anniversary of the 1995 deadly Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/oklahoma-evacuations/index.html

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[madokie]

1. Nothing wrong with being cautious

[Victor_c3]

2. could be someone probing security

... at least that is my first thought.

[Alamuti Lotus]

3. The "terrorist" has become utterly redundant..

We terrorize ourselves better than any organization could ever do on purpose.

[skeewee08]

4. I saw the truck

on my way in to work this morning, the building where I work was evacuated it was scary seeing that this was the same method that Timothy McVeigh used.

[Blandocyte]

5. Do we overreact? Opinions, por favor.

Or are we appropriately cautious? The airport security stuff involving taking shoes off and going through the make-ya-nekkid machine and these Chicken Little panics make me wonder if we look like candy asses to the people in countries where they have many more terrorist incidents.

Opinions, please.