Supreme Court evacuated due to unattended stroller

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: WTOP

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has been evacuated while police investigate an unattended stroller near the building on Capitol Hill.

Officials say the stroller is in the 100 block of Maryland Avenue in Northeast. First Street is blocked to traffic between Constitution Avenue Northeast and Independence Avenue Southeast.

Maryland Avenue also is closed between First and Second streets in Northeast.

Read more: http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2351398&nid=740

[Brickbat]

1. An independent opinion from Clarence Thomas?

[xchrom]

2. +1

[William769]

3. The Constitution?

[Drale]

4. Clarence Thomas buying porn over the internet?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Corrected: Supreme Court has not been evacuated,

Reuters Reuters Top News
Corrected: Supreme Court has not been evacuated, area in front of building was cleared, court official says
22 seconds ago

[William769]

6. Then it must have just been

Scalias flatulence.

[teabaghater]

7. A threat to the

Supreme Court?? Shocking I tell you, shocking! Good! I'd like to see how fast Scalia could run with Thomas' head up his ass.

[William769]

8. See post # 6.

[hlthe2b]

9. I thought it was gong to be a "plain brown wrapper" package

addressed to Clarence (wink, wink, nod, nod) that got waylaid.

[Demeter]

10. That's Rather Paranoid

but they have been asking for trouble for a good while now...so I guess they have reason to fear.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. Police say no threat near Supreme Court

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-usa-court-idUSTRE73I4QZ20110419?WT.tsrc=Social%20Media&WT.z_smid=twtr-reuters_%20com&WT.z_smid_dest=Twitter

U.S. Capitol Police gave the all clear signal on Tuesday after investigating a suspicious package near the Supreme Court, a spokeswoman said.

Police determined that an abandoned baby carriage near the Supreme Court posed no threat after evacuating several streets and calling in a bomb squad, spokeswoman Makema Turner said.

[damntexdem]

12. All clear now. But had there been a baby in it, they really would have panicked.

;-)

[benld74]

13. The only threats are sitting on the SUpreme COurt!

[Scottybeamer70]

14. Those baby bombers

can sure tie up traffic!!

[nykym]

15. Was David Vitter

Visiting again?

[Plucketeer]

16. The SCOTUS...

could afford to be "evacuated" - at least five of it's members anyway. Said five being full of shit as they are.

[Canuckistanian]

17. The dreaded stroller of mass destruction

Fox warned us about this.....

[Odin2005]

18. For fuck's sake, this country has gone insane.