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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