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Old 21-02-2003, 04:40 AM
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Default Philadelphia Flower Show - Safe from terrorists?

Curious.

That certainly would be jsut the place to get all the raw materials to build
a fertilizer bomb!!!

If the flower show goes as badly this year as it has recently, the biggest
worry would be that the public might be bored to death!!!

Those vendors selling ginsu knives and all that kind of crap seen on TV
infomercials are a much bigger threat than terrorists.



B Rayin wrote in message
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In past years I have visited or volunteered at the spring Philadelphia
Flower Show held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center but this year
I'm skittish. It's being held March 2 through March 9. With war
against Iraq impending now, the war may be under way at the time of
the show.

The Flower Show is an easy target for terrorists because the
Pennsylvania Convention Center (called "Pennsylvania" but located in
Philadelphia) and the ground floor under it have many entrances and is
linked with the public trains which would make it easy for a
terrorist with a chemical or biological weapon, anthrax or a plastic
explosive to enter and set it off.

Has anyone else thought about this? I don't like to change my
lifestyle but in these troubled times I am hesitant to enter public
places, especially those that might be equated by Bin Laden types with
American wealth: I like to garden too much!