Bomb Scare Causes 200 eBay
Employees to Evacuate
Wednesday,
November 14th, 2007
 
This morning over 200 employees were evacuated from
eBay's Hamilton Avenue location in San Jose, California, after
a suspicious package was discovered that incited a bomb
scare.
At 8:55 a.m., according to eBay, a package was found
that could not be identified, and employees were asked to leave the
building. Someone in the mail room discovered the package and
called in a police bomb squad disposal unit.
"The device was disrupted at about 12:30 p.m.," said
Sgt. Nick Muyo of the San Jose PD. "It was not an explosive
device...This was simply a case of a package that nobody could
identify. So we handled this by the numbers."
"The affected areas of campus have since been reopened,"
eBay said in a statement. "As before, our eBay, PayPal and Skype
services remain unaffected." As before? Oh,
lovely!
The incident eBay is referencing is Halloween night
in 2006, when a pipe bomb shattered a building that is part
of eBay's PayPal - 26 people were evacuated on that night and no
one was injured. The investigation was unfruitful, and no one was
charged.
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