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State Capitol Evacuated For Suspicious Santa

Posted on November 25, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Not the actual supicious Santa

Not the actual suspicious Santa

The Department of Safety has confirmed that starting around noon today that the state Capitol building was evacuated when a suspicious package was received in the mailroom that “appeared to have mechanical parts.”

Procedure was followed which included the notification and/or involvement of the Department of Safety TEMA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Once the package was excluded as a threat everyone was allowed back in the building at 1:30pm.

Turns out that contained in the package which was addressed to the governor was a harmless mechanical Santa Claus.

UPDATE 5:05PM: The AP report

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4 Responses to “State Capitol Evacuated For Suspicious Santa”

  1. Donna Locke writes
    November 25th, 2009 2:09 pm
  2. Dave writes
    November 25th, 2009 6:54 pm

    That is the evil robot Santa from the cartoon show Futurama. The character was voiced by John Goodman. This is similar to the case in Boston a few years ago when an underground add campaign for the movie Aqua Teen Hunger Force that featured lite-brite monsters from the movie started popping up all over the city causing a panic about the devices being bombs. It shut down the whole city. I guess the moral is that officials should mellow out a bit and spend more time watching cartoons so they will be ready for these “emergencies.”

  3. Tom Paine writes
    November 26th, 2009 10:16 am

    Donna,
    Are you perhaps suggesting the state of Tennessee SHOULDN’T have aggressively gone after the VW plant?

    Had VW gone to Alabama, you’d be the first in line to slam state leaders for whiffing on VW AND letting GM shut down Spring Hill….

  4. Donna Locke writes
    November 26th, 2009 8:52 pm

    Yes, Tom, not that aggressively with OPM. That is the fiasco Maury County got into when snowed by GM. So no, Tom. No, I would not.

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