Your hard-earned tax dough being justified:
"Van’s fuel sparks a terrorism response" October 17, 2011|By John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff
Two college students who were trying to do something green on Saturday inadvertently attracted a lot of attention from the boys in blue, including the FBI’s antiterrorism task force.
A Tewksbury police officer driving by an alternative fuel station in mid-afternoon on Clark Relocation Road noticed the men loading compressed natural gas into two storage tanks in the back of a Volkswagen minivan, said David Procopio, a spokesman for the State Police.
The minivan is typically not a natural gas-powered vehicle, so the officer approached the two men. It turned out that the students had rigged the van to run on natural gas, and the two tanks in the back were part of a retrofit for the fuel conversion.
Before they learned of the experiment, however, police put out a call that the two men, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, were loading natural gas into the back of a van.
The report triggered a response from additional Tewksbury police and firefighters, State Police from Troop A, the State Police Bomb Squad, troopers from the state’s antiterrorism Fusion Center, and FBI agents assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Procopio said.
Hope the tax buck for tyranny based on lies is worth it.
Police stopped and interviewed the two men, but it was quickly clear that there was neither criminal activity nor terrorism afoot, he said.
The owner of the vehicle, who was not identified, will be cited for failing to register it as an alternative fuel vehicle, however.
And of Middle Eastern descent? Why did it just occur to me they might Israeli? Not identified by the police or Zionist press?
“The FBI agents and Massachusetts State Police personnel assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force responded to the scene at the request of the Tewksbury Police Department,’’ said Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the FBI in Boston. “After conducting logical checks, it was determined that the incident was related to an experiment on alternative fuels and that there was no connection to terrorism.’’
Then maybe they were Arab after all.
The students were identified only as ages 20 and 28, both from Boston. The van was impounded and the natural gas was dissipated at a Tewksbury town yard, Procopio said.
Procopio said the cautious police response was justified, and he commended the Tewksbury officer for acting.
Sieg heil!
“The response and investigation was entirely appropriate given the strange circumstance of the alternative fuel tanks having been attached into the interior of the vehicle,’’ Procopio said. “In this day and age, police by necessity must be on alert for anything that appears out of the ordinary, and the Tewksbury police deserve credit for being just that and taking appropriate action.’’
Like dancing Israelis?
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Time to hitch a ride home.
