A tense standoff with a passenger aboard a Boston-bound Greyhound bus ended peacefully last night when he surrendered to police, nearly 10 hours after authorities received a call that a bomb was on board. Earlier, sixteen other adult passengers and the driver had exited the bus, which originated in Bangor, Maine, and arrived in Portsmouth for a regularly scheduled stop at about 11:20 a.m. The bus was eventually heading to New York via Boston.
Portsmouth Police Chief David Ferland said, during a press conference late last night, that the local 911 dispatcher service received a call of a possible explosive on the bus, shortly after it arrived in the city. Authorities quickly surrounded the bus, evacuated nearby buildings, including a hotel and parking garage, and closed several streets. Coming just days after a failed car bombing in New York City, the threat drew an overwhelming response, with bomb squads, SWAT teams, and a sharpshooter in an armored vehicle descending on the chaotic scene. Police used a Taser to subdue a man in his 60s who refused to give police his name.
Hope he wasn't a black man or Obama will be spewing more propaganda about racisim and how the treatment of blacks by whites is so evil and cruel.