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Talk about dropping a dime: South Station bus terminal shut by suspicious bit of old technology

MBTA Transit Police ordered a shutdown of the South Station bus terminal when a janitor found a strange item in the trash in the men's room. Alert New England reports it was a stolen coin box from a pay phone.

Earlier:
Riverside station shut due to suspicious coffee maker.

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but still didn't make it to his grandmother's house in Worcester (or is it Springfield?).

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IMAGE(http://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bigbackpack.jpg?w=400&h=300)

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So we have a suspicious package, which could be explosive, yet commuter trains under the building with the package in it run as usual??

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It was probably just a toothbrush.

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I wonder if the brains at the Transit Police realize that (unscreened) cars can also park atop the terminal.

To be fair, the tweet said that the "Red Line&Commuter Rail not effected". Broken down trains and signals have done a marvelous job the past few days of causing the Red Line and commuter rail to not be effected.

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Coin box from a pay phone.

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Now, Now... Lets not break the illusion of security and reasonable reactions.

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Thank goodness the TSA was in Quincy this morning to ensure that this suspicious package did not enter the T through that stop and to ensure that the signals worked splendidly.

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I'm surprised there's even any money in those things any more. Hardly seems worth the effort to steal one.

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All this talk about bombs and trains and janitors, and nobody is thinking about the children.

Please, God, won't someone think of the children?

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Yes, we have to ban children from the South Station bus terminal, because they might explode!

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I know it's early yet but this is my nominee for Headline of the Year.

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