Mass EVAC from Scarb. yesterday

[Fobio]

http://www.thestar.com/gta/crime/article/695866

of course, most would have heard about the "bomb scare" yesterday...first I heard, my thoughts were:

1. I wonder if Agincourt Mazda and Karen were affected.

2. OMG I hope my car's gonna ok if they bomb goes off!!! :chuckle

Then I was thinking...shit like this doesn't happen in Toronto, unless someone eff'd up something somewhere...ie. Sunrise Propane.

and of course, they found it was something minor...

so what eff'd up?

my first guess: when you tow a suspicious vehicale away because the cops suspect it might be explosive, don't park it beside a gawd dang propane silo...:complain:loco

so Karen...how was it yesterday? :)

[BiG-ED]

damn
i was playing golf near there :P
didnt see shit

[mazda_gurl]

Neat - I missed this evac LOL

Who knew!

[-cj-]

my first guess: when you tow a suspicious vehicale away because the cops suspect it might be explosive, don't park it beside a gawd dang propane silo...:complain:loco

:chuckle Yeah I was like WTF? when I read that part as well. But I think they meant "AND it was parked next to a propane tank" which is what prompted the towing. --- At least I hope that's what they meant. Otherwise yeah, they're pretty :loco

[Fobio]

:chuckle Yeah I was like WTF? when I read that part as well. But I think they meant "AND it was parked next to a propane tank" which is what prompted the towing. --- At least I hope that's what they meant. Otherwise yeah, they're pretty :loco

actually, when I first heard, I thought the same as you, but these are other accounts:

AOL Canada:


Without specifying further, police said the vehicle parked at Williams Towing Service contains a suspicious substance that could explode. They are being particularly cautious because the vehicle is located near a propane tank.

...

The vehicle was towed to Williams Towing Service from a location on Eglinton Avenue, Drummond said. Police have spoken to the owner of the vehicle, who is co-operating with authorities, she said.



so from the above account, the following from the Globe and Mail confirms that it was TOWED there:


Several thousand North Toronto residents have been urged to leave their homes and a large area cordoned off by police after a suspicious package was discovered in a car parked outside a tow truck company, located close to a propane cylinder.

Here's also a more up-to-date report, saying charges MAY NOT come:


Evacuation scare may not result in charges

Student studying alternative fuel sources, police say

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | 2:23 PM ET

Toronto police say they are still trying to determine whether charges are "appropriate" following Monday's evacuation scare in the city's northeast.

Police spokeswoman Const. Wendy Drummond said a decision is "expected shortly" from police and prosecutors who are "deciding whether or not charges are appropriate in this situation and what alternative measures are to be taken."

Earlier, police said they were going to charge Shawn Morris, 27, with possession of an explosive, failure to comply with probation and mischief. But police and prosecutors appeared to back off a short while later when it turned out the device that prompted a large-scale evacuation may have been a "tool for alternative fuel."

Morris is a student at Centennial College where he is taking an automotive course.

Van reported stolen
Monday afternoon's evacuation was prompted after Morris reported his van had been stolen from an area near Centennial College's Ashtonbee campus on Eglinton Avenue East.

"He immediately called 911 who tried to do something about it because he was, you know, worried," said Rose Cavallaro, spokeswoman for the college.

The van had been taken to an impound lot on Markham Road where it was discovered the back of the vehicle was packed with pipes and wires. Police and fire officials were called and, suspecting an explosive device, they issued an evacuation order at about 1:30 p.m. ET.

Everyone within about 1.6 square kilometres was ordered to leave the area bounded by Steeles Avenue East, Morningside Avenue, Finch Avenue East and Middlefield Road.

Police said they took extra precautions because the impound lot sits near a very large industrial propane tank and CPR tracks.

The scare caused a major headache for thousands of residents and workers at nearby companies who were told to leave. Traffic was halted in the cordoned-off area.

Order lifted
The evacuation order was lifted by early evening after police bomb squad officers said they had managed to defuse the device.

"The safety to the public has been restored," Toronto police Insp. Howie Page told reporters at about 6:45 p.m. "The Emergency Task Force bomb squad have successfully dismantled the device in the vehicle."

Drummond said there was heightened concern but "at no time throughout this investigation have we had any allegations of threats of violence towards anybody — nothing political or religious in relation to what we found in the vehicle."

Police said later that the operation had been a smooth one and that they had used lessons learned from the 2008 explosion at the Sunrise Propane facility in Downsview to evacuate the area.

Morris was taken into custody where police discovered he had installed a "possible tool for alternative fuel" in his van. The device, Drummond said, "was not part of the curriculum at all — not connected at all to the school."

Investigators are continuing to interview Morris. "Once that interview is done and completed then an assessment will be made" on whether to lay charges, Drummond said.

[MistaChin]

damn
i was playing golf near there :P
didnt see shit

Were you at Scarborough Family Golf Centre? I'm always there.

[-cj-]

Crazy! Well hopefully it really is a device for alternative fuel. I would hate to think that things are going to shit in this country.

I love how the school quickly distanced themselves from this guy by stating it wasn't part of his studies ;)

[BiG-ED]

Were you at Scarborough Family Golf Centre? I'm always there.

nah
cresthaven with a buddy who just started up

[Slipstream]

so...this is why i was stuck on markham road for an hour n a half

[rktsci]

I don't know how the Police handled the evacuation because my wife's office was right in the middle of the designated evac area but no one came to tell them! She left the area at the end of her day which is at 4:30....3 hours after the evac apparently started!

[MistaChin]

nah
cresthaven with a buddy who just started up

Cresthaven's pretty far from the area isn't it. It's a lot more up north!

[BiG-ED]

^ one of the evac borders was at steeles and middlefield. so its less than a full intersection NW of that.

[mzkaye729]

I was wondering what the hell was happening as I was headed North on Markham Rd that day and as soon as I reached Passmore, the traffic was just crazy. Three lanes turned into one lane and cops had Markham and Steeles intersection blocked off so you cant go South on Markham.